Wesley J. Smith

I posted an entry at Secondhand Smoke a bit ago about a tremendous breakthrough in which adult stem cells have apparently successfully treated serious liver disease in humans. Michael Fumento adds more details here. And, he points out, the mainstream media has all but ignored the breakthrough, since . . . . Continue Reading »

The threats from animal rights activists against animal control workers have grown so extreme that Los Angeles is paying for special security for them. For example, a smoke bomb was set off in the apartment complex where the head of LA’s animal control department lives—a crime . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers may recall a disgusting case awhile back of a man who died while having sex with a horse. It turned out that there is no law against bestiality in Washington, and I was peeved because supporters and opponents of proposed legislation there to outlaw bestiality were missing the point that . . . . Continue Reading »

Ever since the human cloning debates began, some bioethicists have chided the former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics for having worried decades ago that IVF might pose risks to the children created thereby. Kass was wrong about IVF, they thunder, and he is wrong about cloning, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post deserves credit for running this thoughtful piece by Patricia E. Bauer, a journalist and mother of a disabled child who worries that we are seeking to eliminate the disabled by never permitting them to be born—all in the name of preventing suffering, of course. Bauer . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief. “Progressive” bioethicists are whining that they don’t have enough power. Nonsense. The utilitarian bioethics agenda, which is what the “progressive” bioethics movement really is, has tremendous influence in this country. Indeed, as is discussed in depth in . . . . Continue Reading »

This interesting note picked up by Bio-Edge: There may be cancer stem cells. (This isn’t the same as embryonic stem cells causing tumors.) The theory is that chemotherapy destroys cells that have differentiated into cancer cells, but not the cancer stem cells, which may explain why cancer . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA has settled a lawsuit (perhaps to avoid discovery where its files would have been thrown open to lawyers), and agreed to a court order not to infiltrate a medical testing company it had been seeking to harm. The order lasts for five years. Suing animal liberationist harassers—but only . . . . Continue Reading »

I will be on WIBA, Madison, WI, tomorrow about SHAC and tertiary targeting at 3:10 P.M. Central Time. If you live in the area, tune in. The host is Vicki . . . . Continue Reading »

The two PETA workers who were charged with killing dogs and cats and dumping them in trash cans have been charged with more crimes. The biggest news is that these new charges include three counts of obtaining property under false pretenses. The property are cats and dogs. The false pretenses are, . . . . Continue Reading »