Wesley J. Smith

Showing how far adult stem cells have come in a very short time, our wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated with their own stem cells to help treat wounds involving bones. From the story: With the dexterity of a carpenter, the finesse of a master chef and the tools of a . . . . Continue Reading »

You all knew it was just a matter of time, didn’t you? Yes, some ethicists have said that it is morally wrong to decapitate flowers and appear to have opined there is something of a right to life for plants. From the story: PLANTS deserve respect, a group of Swiss experts says, arguing that . . . . Continue Reading »

What a disaster the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been. Management incompetence, fat executive raises in spite of the incompetence, conflict of interest charges sparking an official investigation, the list goes on and on. And now, it appears the CIRM tried to take credit that it . . . . Continue Reading »

Update: I am not surprised that the story turned out not to be true. From the story: The story about Aliza Shvarts’ project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets— including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post—before Yale . . . . Continue Reading »

I probably don’t say this often enough, but most biotechnological research is entirely ethical and exciting. Case in point: The FDA is poised to approve a test that picks up “biomarkers” that could tell researchers whether a drug is harming a patient’s kidneys during human . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA won’t like it, but this underwater treadmill run was actually a scientific study testing the fitness of shrimp. The good news is that it wasn’t on the U.S. taxpayer’s . . . . Continue Reading »

David Martosko is with the food industry-financed Center for Consumer Freedom, aka PETA’s Worst Nightmare. David’s genius is that he is as edgy and committed to fighting animal rights as PETA is in advocating the ideology. (The Center created the “PETA Kills Animals” . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote about the pending voter initative in California (Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act) that would, among other matters, outlaw “battery cages” for the housing of hens. I posted the HSUS argument in favor of the initiative here. Now, an egg industry representative has sent along . . . . Continue Reading »

Panel one: The front page of the PETA Chronicle:(Bad Reporter is a consistently funny political strip that runs three times a week in the SF Chronicle. Asmussen’s great riffs on current events takes on all sides and are consistently funny. Check it out here.)The Crocs continue to ignore the . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists are telling us to mind our own business about issues such as embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. Apparently, in their hubris and arrogance, they believe that only their ideas about ethics matter. From the story: Politicians have been warned not to block scientific inquiry into . . . . Continue Reading »