Wesley J. Smith

This has not made nearly enough news. A crucial chemotherapy drug is now in very short supply. Johnson and Johnson, the company that owns the drug, said way back in June, that the shortage was caused by equipment problems at the third party manufacturer.  Nearly a year . . . . Continue Reading »

The Center for Bioethics and Culture has a good film out called Anonymous Father’s Day, which deals with the emotional impact on children of sperm donors from not knowing anything about their biological fathers.  This too is a form of reproductive commodification and the consequences in . . . . Continue Reading »

National Review’s John Derbyshire has written a racist article at Taki’s Magazine, in which he envisions “the talk” about race relations with his children. Pertinent to the business of this blog, racism is a form of anti HE.Derbyshire traces what he claims to be the . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists have announced that they have made mature eggs from ovarian stem cells. They want to fertilize said eggs and experiment on the embryos before destroying them after 14 days. From the Independent story:The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells . . . . Continue Reading »

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DDT is a very effective pesticide, that helped the USA eradicate malaria as a health problem in the American South. But Rachael Carson blamed it for many environmental woes, and it became discredited.  Many, myself included, believe that millions of poor children and others in Africa and . . . . Continue Reading »

Some global warming hysterics seek to make us all poor to save the planet. How else explain a National Geographic blogger named Stephen Leahy telling us that we should let indigenous people teach us how to live a low carbon lifestyle. From “Indigenous Peoples Can Show the Path to . . . . Continue Reading »

And another one bites the dust.  Polar bears and their supposed decline are the mascots of global warming hysteria. As a consequence, we hampered our prosperity in the USA by legally restricting energy creation based on the apparently very wrong notion that polar bears are . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a German lawyer, and so I don’t know if this is dispositive or merely the first step in a longer legal process. But a German administrative court has apparently ruled that the ban on physician-assisted suicide is too “general,” whatever that means.  From the UPI . . . . Continue Reading »

Back when the ICU was the big profit center, people complained that they were often ”hooked up to machines” until death, even when they just wanted to stop or go home to die. Then, when the ICU became a potential big money loser due to capitation, we began to hear more complaints . . . . Continue Reading »