Wesley J. Smith

Animal right activists get very exorcised over labs testing various cosmetic products on animals.  But for all their protesting, safety must be proved before marketing, and that generally means using animals in order to prove that the product or its ingredient are fit for human . . . . Continue Reading »

Constitutional rights should not depend on the popularity of the liberty’s support, but it is good to know that solid majorities oppose the authoritarian order by the Obama Administration forcing Catholic  and other objecting organizations to have contraception, . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no place in a society based on human equality and the sanctity of life for lawsuits that ask juries to determine that a baby was wrongfully born.  Such a case just came down in Portland (why am I not surprised), Oregon, where a jury awarded $2.9 million against doctors for failing to . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh brother.  Some big brained “scientists” gave students a beta blocker.  For heart disease?  No, to measure whether the pill could reduce racist attitudes.  From the Daily News story:British researchers found that a common heart disease drug lowers more . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh brother. Every once in a while I like to check in to see what our friends the transhumanists are fantasizing about.  The latest is apparently ”machine rights” and ”machine ethics,” that is the rules that should guide our treatment of machines once they . . . . Continue Reading »

There should be no such thing as a “wrongful life” or “wrongful birth.” But lawsuits are filed from time-to-time seeking damages because a baby was born that the parents would have destroyed in the womb “had they only known.”  For example, a few . . . . Continue Reading »

I am a supporter of “pharming,” that is, making minor genetic alterations in herd animals so that we can obtain valuable substances in their milk (as just one example).  In fact, the cloning of Dolly was intended to promote just such a herd of cloned transgenic sheep.That . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dutch are so proud of their culture of death euthanasia practice, and sooo sensitive about it when people from outside the country tell the truth about how it works there in real life.  Witness the angry letters I have received privately and posted here when I pointed out that the . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh good grief.  The WSJ did an interview with a fiction author/veterinarian who apparently writes deeply empathetic pro animal and feminist fiction—and yet, she treats the very human exceptionalism that bonds her to animals as something to struggle against and overcome.  From an . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the great propaganda coups of the assisted suicide movement was making people believe that the Oregon annual reports about assisted suicide were meaningful or informative. For example: They are based almost solely on self reporting by death doctors, who are about as likely to tell the state . . . . Continue Reading »