Wesley J. Smith

The media are making a pretty big splash about a New England Journal of Medicine study, which measured doctors’ willingness to refuse desired services if it violated their personal moral codes. From the story: “Based on the findings, the researchers estimate that more than 40 million . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Fumento lays out the facts about amniotic fluid stem cells in this Daily Standard piece. Fumento is a science writer and he explains the scientific significance of the breakthrough in a succinct and informative manner. For those interested in such arcania, it’s worth a read.Fumento . . . . Continue Reading »

The Swiss Supreme Court has ruled that people with mental illnesses can be legally assisted in suicide. The case came about when a member of Dignitas, an organization that, for a fee, provides a safe house for, and assistance with, suicide, brought a lawsuit seeking the right to have his death . . . . Continue Reading »

Haleigh Poutre, the little girl who was due to be dehyrated to death because she was supposedly unconscious with no hope of recovery, is now eating eggs and interacting with those around her. And where are the supporters of dehydrating the cognitively disabled? Where are they to explain why and how . . . . Continue Reading »

The potential that China is killing Falun Gong and selling their organs is so sobering and disturbing from a human rights perspective, that I deemed it worth highlighting in this edition of Brave New . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning that infanticide is being normalized among the intelligentsia and in medicine. This story from Australia is more evidence that this is true. Apparently one-third of Aussie doctors would kill babies born with severe disabilities. And here’s an interesting twist that . . . . Continue Reading »

James Shirley, the MIT stem cell professor who opposes human cloning and ESCR because it destroys nascent human life, a “controversial theory according to this Fox News report,” (but basic biology, says I), is on a hunger strike to protest being denied tenure. He is claiming racism. I . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post is on to me with an article “The Bogus Science of Secondhand Smoke.” Well, it was fun while it lasted. Oh, wait: Not my Secondhand Smoke. Secondhand smoke, secondhand smoke. Never . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an important story, byline Carol Burczuk, the jist of which needs to be repeated until it finally sinks in: Just because doctors say someone is “unconscious,” it doesn’t mean they really are. Often, people are aware but cannot communicate—as in this story. Note, that . . . . Continue Reading »

I have begun to pay more attention to the crucial human rights issue of slavery, which by its imposition on human beings, denies human exceptionalism and our intrinsic moral worth. Happily, my think tank the Discovery Institute is moving in the same direction. John R. Miller—who I had the . . . . Continue Reading »