Wesley J. Smith

The computer age is amazing. I did an interview to Australia a few months ago, and this podcast is now available to anyone in the world who has on-line access. The issue is euthanasia and assisted suicide. Check it . . . . Continue Reading »

Last year, doctors wrote 12-year old Haleigh Poutre off as good as dead after she was beaten nearly to death, allegedly by her adoptive mother and step father. After only one week, they assumed she was in a PVS and urged the State of Massachusetts to dehydrate Haleigh to death. The State Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times mildly reported today about the fact that ACT did not create embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. Lanza is in full dissembling mode, claiming that he had not read the Nature press release before it went out. For some reason, Nicolas Wade, the Times reporter, fails to . . . . Continue Reading »

Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine, and it is a great honor to be able to make that claim. For decades he has stood steadfastly for individual rights and civil liberties. When he writes about the sanctity and equality of human life, he has no peer—as in this reminder of the great wrong done to . . . . Continue Reading »

I seem to have stirred up some angry—I don’t know how to label them, nihilists? anarchists?—by claiming on my Starbuck’s coffee cup (“The Way I See It” campaign, scroll to Cup # 127) that the question of the 21st Century is whether all human life will be . . . . Continue Reading »

Now the Chicago Tribune is backing off the story of the big embryonic stem cell research breakthrough that wasn’t. And get this: Advanced Cell Technology’s “ethicist,” Ronald Green, who told the Washington Post, “You can honestly say this cell line is from an embryo . . . . Continue Reading »

This could be very exciting if it truly pans out: Scientists have used patients’ own white blood cells, genetically engineered, to apparently place melanoma into remission. Scientists think the procedure might also be effective on other types of cancer. There is great hope here, and it is . . . . Continue Reading »

Credit where credit is due. Of course, a mainstream bioethicist, David Magnus, twists this into a call for destroying the Bush funding policy. Note the consistency: When Wu suk Hwang claimed to have cloned human embryos and derived stem cells, the bioethicists claimed this was proof of the harm . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not going to link this, because frankly, the NYT isn’t worth reading any more. But today’s letters to the editor section has 5 missives on the embryonic stem cell non breakthrough, all but one critical, of course, of President Bush. But that is not what has me so thoroughly . . . . Continue Reading »

I am doing a lot of radio about the Advanced Cell Technology stem cell hype, including this podcast of an interview today from Columbia, Missouri, that aired on “The Eagle,” 93.9 FM Talk. In this discussion with host Derek Gilbert, I also blast away at Amendment 2 that would create a . . . . Continue Reading »