Wesley J. Smith

Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma, a British Columbian physician, pled guilty to attempting to assisted the suicide of a 92-year-old nursing home resident. The woman survived. Although he was not jailed, has been stripped of his license to practice medicine and subjected to other restrictions during his . . . . Continue Reading »

According to this report, scientists have stored data in living neurons for the first time, opening the potentiality for “cyborg computer chips.” From the story:Many believe that complex patterns of neuronal firing are templates for memory, which the brain uses when storing information. . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an interesting radio interview (NPR: Diane Rehm) about the current stem cell controversies. It is worth a listen. The guests areRick Weiss, science reporter for “The Washington Post” Dr. John Gearhart, professor of medicine and director of the stem cell program at Johns Hopkins . . . . Continue Reading »

Human cloning researchers are again whining that their important work is being held back by a lack of human eggs. This time, it is researchers from Harvard, as reported a few days ago in the Boston Globe. From the story:A year after Harvard University scientists began trying to create cloned human . . . . Continue Reading »

Can money buy happiness? Some social scientists in the UK took a look. And they discovered that the primary factors that make for a happy life aren’t money, but strong social connections.The researchers created a “life satisfaction scale,” that ranged from one (miserable) to seven . . . . Continue Reading »

...k.i.s.s.i.n.g, as the old childhood ditty goes. Mike Wallace took another giant step outside of objective journalism—assuming it still exists anymore—to come to his pal Kevorkian’s defense with letter to the editor in the New York Times. Kevorkian can’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Mitch Albom, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press interviewed Kevorkian face-to-face, and apparently was taken aback by what he experienced. After a little time with Kevorkian, Albom writes, “I couldn’t imagine a suffering so bad that I would want Kevorkian to be the last person . . . . Continue Reading »

This article out of Korea about the charlatan, Hwang Wu-suk, is a prophetic warning about what the future may hold. He plans to continue to research human cloning, but not in South Korea. Hwang, who unethically obtained eggs for his earlier failed research, has stated he can’t do his work in . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator John Edwards was justly ridiculed when he stated in 2004 that people in wheelchairs would be able to walk if John Kerry were elected, because he would alter President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding policy. This bit of outrageous hype was quickly labeled Edwards’ “amen . . . . Continue Reading »

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has whined that the assisted suicide bill was defeated because it was “demonized by the religious right.” Baloney. The religious right has about zero political power in California, particularly in the Assembly.This bill was stopped because liberals, . . . . Continue Reading »