Wesley J. Smith

This longish thoughtful response to my column on the Hippocratic Oath is worth posting on its own. This physician believes the Oath is a “living document,” that must change with the times. Well, doctors sure don’t swear by Apollo anymore, but I think this idea of a living Oath . . . . Continue Reading »

Bill Gates gave $400,000 to fund the campaign for Proposition 71. In other words, he was willing to pay chump change—for him—to help persuade the people of California—already tens of billions in debt—to dig even deeper into our empty pockets to chase after the rainbow of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Christian bioethicist Nigel Cameron published a book on this matter some years ago, called The New Medicine: Life and Death After After Hippocrates. For those interested, here is the Amazon . . . . Continue Reading »

This is unbelievable: Ian Wilmut has admitted that he did not clone Dolly the sheep. The more we learn about the cloning agenda, the less honesty there appears to have been in the field from the very start.Wilmut has acknowledged in a court case that he did not develop the technology that led to . . . . Continue Reading »

The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing debates around the world to legalize mercy killing. I am honored to be an attorney and consultant for the organization. Indeed, Rita Marker and Kathy Hamlon of the Task . . . . Continue Reading »

The e-mail has been pouring in on my article in today’s NRO on the deconstruction of the Hippocratic Oath. They are so interesting and varied, I thought I’d share some of them with the readers of Secondhand Smoke. I intend to keep posting some of the newer communications as I receive . . . . Continue Reading »

A while ago, I posted several entries at Secondhand Smoke about the ongoing deconstruction of the Hippocratic Oath. As I promised, I have written a longer article analyzing what it all may mean. It is in today’s National Review Online. I am getting a lot of response already. I will post some . . . . Continue Reading »

So the country of forced abortions, femaile infanticide, and selling of executed prisoners’ organs wants to get into the euthanasia game. How . . . . Continue Reading »

This story reveals that Britain’s National Health Service, the socialized funder of medical care in the UK, is running deeply in the red. Some hospital wards are closing, surgeries may be delayed, and cost cutting is the order of the day.I have always worried that money would become a big part . . . . Continue Reading »

Sir Paul McCartney is a fantastic musician and composer. As someone who grew up in the era of The Beatles, I can only smile when I watch him perform. But he is dead wrong in his attempts to impeded necessary animal testing in medical research. Here, he writes to Arizona’s governor urging her . . . . Continue Reading »