Wesley J. Smith

Will Saletan, with whom I often disagree but whose journalism and pondering in the area of biotechnology is top notch, has an article out in Slate about how sex selection is coming to America. From his column: Two days ago, economists Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund published an article in . . . . Continue Reading »

Parkinson’s Patients who received fetal cadaver tissue grafts and whose brains were studied after they died, showed that the disease continued to affect healthy tissue and thus cell grafts may not function long term. From the story: “These findings give us a bit of pause for the value of . . . . Continue Reading »

I was speaking in beautiful Eugene, Oregon yesterday—and so was Hillary Clinton. (For some reason she made the front page of the Register Guard instead of me.) During the Q and A session, she was asked about Oregon’s assisted suicide law and gave quite the Clintonesque support for . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so repugnant: Four seal hunters drowned when their boat capsized while being towed—a terrible tragedy. But to the radical Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the deaths of the seals killed in the hunt is worse. From the story:Fishermen were infuriated when they . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, I don’t literally hate her, but despite the good she has admittedly done, I consider Oprah! to be a destructive cultural force. Case in point is her inviting the “pregnant man”—who is really a woman who has had his gender reassigned—on her show, further hyping . . . . Continue Reading »

In “Keep Scientists Safe,” neuroscience professor Jeffrey Kordower had the guts to unequivocally identify terrorism in the name of animal rights as the thuggery it is. From his column in the Chicago Tribune:Black-masked attackers disrupting a child’s birthday party. A firebomb left . . . . Continue Reading »

Have any of you seen the commercial in which the patient is being instructed by the doctor on how to perform his own surgery? Well, that is more than afforded a grandmother over in the UK who couldn’t get a dentist to pull her teeth. From the story: A grandmother performed her own tooth . . . . Continue Reading »

I am doing the Bill O’ Reilly radio show today, guest host Tony Snow. The time is set for 1:30 Eastern, 10:30 Pacific. Topic, assisted suicide. The show is syndicated so it may play at different times in your area, should you wish to tune in. Or, it can be live streamed . . . . Continue Reading »

In the wake of their loss, the Schindler family created the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to stand up for the intrinsic equal dignity of profoundly disabled people and to hold the line against bioethical agendas such as assisted suicide and Futile Care Theory. This has caught the attention of . . . . Continue Reading »

I have had some buzz today that a new futile care case may have come to the fore after an Illinois nursing home, the North Logan Healthcare Center in Danville, was fined for violating a patient’s advance directive declaring that he wanted to be resuscitated. But as I looked at the case based . . . . Continue Reading »