Wesley J. Smith

For all of moaning and groaning by the MSM and ESCR propagandists about Bush imposing theocracy on America for refusing to permit the federal government to fund the destruction of embryos for use in research, get this: Led by Germany, the EU has just passed its own stem cell funding bill and it only . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a book review of a wonderful history of the euthanasia movement in the current issue of First Things. It begins, “To read Ian Dowbiggin’s A Concise History of Euthanasia is to learn that in more than a century of advocacy for euthanasia, the arguments have barely changed at . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK has had a terrible time with animal liberationists trying to prevent the use of animals in necessary medical research. Apparently their campaign isn’t working. The number of animal experiments rose by 2% last year. Obviously, animals should not be subjected to research for frivolous . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, puhleese: Time is now fear mongering that our top stem cell scientists will flee to Singapore to do stem cell research because of the President’s veto. Wait a minute! I thought they were all going to be coming to California to get a piece of the $3 billion we will be handing out in my . . . . Continue Reading »

So, my governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has authorized California to borrow $150 million to fund the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. This means a lot of money is going to go to human cloning and ESCR, more perhaps than researchers will be able to spend—money that may well never . . . . Continue Reading »

Renegade fertility doctor Panos Zavos claims to have tried reproductive cloning in several women, including a 52-year old. He failed and no pregnancies were established. He also claims to have created 4-celled cloned embryos, but they may not have been embryos at all since an egg without a nucleus . . . . Continue Reading »

Germany has a more restrictive policy on these issues than the USA. Here is a story about the country’s attempt to ban all EU funding of ESCR. (And guess what: Germany doesn’t have a “religious . . . . Continue Reading »

Here are a few of the pictures I took at yesterday’s event at the White House, plus one of me with my pal Tony . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently, Carlos Lima’s paper came out while I was on vacation. I am told that the media paid it utterly no attention. But I will. Stay . . . . Continue Reading »

I knew this was coming, and now, here it is: Carlos Lima has published his research demonstrating that a patient’s own adult stem cells and olfactory mucosa can treat paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. This study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, reports on . . . . Continue Reading »