Wesley J. Smith

Contrary to its name, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is not an organization of doctors. In fact, the PCRM is an outright animal rights advocacy organization that approaches animal issues through its ideological prism, not the science.Indeed, contrary to its name, the PCRM . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA is trying to destroy the Australian wool industry via boycott because, as I wrote here a few years ago, of an unpleasant but necessary animal husbandry practice called mulesing needed (at present) to prevent an awful maggot infestation known as fly strike. The Australian wool industry . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the new Center for Bioethics and the Culture Newsletter, expanding on my earlier SHS comment about a new “how-to-commit-suicide” book in the Netherlands. It is a pretty good nutshell summary of the collapse of Dutch medical ethics and what happens when euthanasia is is . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a proof of principle experiment, with a long way to go for human application (if evern), but this is a very encouraging experiment. UCB stem cells may open a door to treating Alzheimer’s disease. From the story: A novel strategy based on targeted immune suppression using human . . . . Continue Reading »

As I often say, euthanasia consciousness leads to the bottomless pit. Latest example: There is now pressure in Belgium to open euthanasia to children and people with dementia. From the story: Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger . . . . Continue Reading »

My buddy Nat Hentoff has been dealing with the issues covered here at SHS long before I was even a writer. An atheist and civil libertarian, Hentoff sees his advocacy on behalf of the equality of all human life—including in opposition to abortion—as consistent with his belief in human . . . . Continue Reading »

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There has been some twitter about a “man” who has become pregnant. Assuming the story is genuine, and I have my doubts, the man isn’t a man. Biologically, she’s a transgendered woman who became a man under the law and is married as a man under the law. Because his wife has . . . . Continue Reading »

Nebraska has easily passed into law a ban on any state funding of human cloning research and banning any state facility from doing human SCNT. From the story:The measure prohibits the use of state money or facilities for creating or destroying embryos for stem cell research using a technique . . . . Continue Reading »

Under intense pressure from the Catholic Church and others, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is allowing a free vote on the notorious embryo bill, that we first discussed the here at SHS a few days ago. From the story: Mr Brown agreed to let Labour MPs vote according to—conscience, rather than the . . . . Continue Reading »