Wesley J. Smith

We’ve heard stories like this before: In the UK, deaf parents want the right to ensure having deaf children through embryo selection. From the story:DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the . . . . Continue Reading »

To all the friends and adversaries of SHS, please accept my heartfelt best wishes for the best of the Season. Sometimes, it can seem that all is strife and madness. But while in many ways we live in the best of times, it is all too easy to forget that it certainly isn’t the worst of times. . . . . Continue Reading »

I love the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Here is the latest strip, which has just enough relevance to what we discuss here at SHS for me to post. . . . . Continue Reading »

The alternative newspapers continue to outshine the MSM in providing basic and in depth journalism: In this story in the LA Weekly, reporter Patrick Range McDonald shows how completely unhinged the animal rights terrorists are becoming in Los Angeles:Antonio Villaraigosa may need to watch his back. . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot stomach PETA’s ideology—views symbolized by the disgusting comic book aimed at kids depicted here—but I sit in awe at its leaders’ propaganda and advocacy skills. They never miss a chance to get their message out. Now, they urge that meat be taxed to reduce global . . . . Continue Reading »

Once, when patients were hospitalized, their own doctors would follow and coordinate the care provided by whatever specialist was needed. But economics, the desire to reduce the length of hospital stays, and the unique challenges of providing hospitalized care led to the development of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I sometimes hear from people with serious illnesses telling me they are thinking about getting stem cell treatments from non reliable sources. I always urge them not to and be careful. Here is one reason why: A woman is being jailed for falsely promising to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease with stem . . . . Continue Reading »

The human cloners over at Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures are sure a disingenuous lot, for example, claiming in Amendment 2 to have outlawed human cloning when the measure actually created a state constitutional right to clone human life.Now, a representative has a letter in the St. Louis . . . . Continue Reading »

Several years ago, the Montana Supreme Court basically ruled that whatever a patient wants to do with a willing medical provider should not be impeded by the government. Not surprisingly, as I mentioned here at SHS, it bred a lawsuit to create a state right to assisted suicide in the Big Sky State. . . . . Continue Reading »

This is funny stuff—imagined depictions of animal chimeras caused “when cloning goes wrong.” There are too many to present here, but here is sampling.(Hit this link to see the rest.)HT: Don . . . . Continue Reading »