Wesley J. Smith

Hard to blog with dial up. I’ll be back at it as soon as this technical issue is . . . . Continue Reading »

As I expected, PETA’s equating animal husbandry with the evil of the American slave system is provoking outrage. As it . . . . Continue Reading »

A new Pew Poll is out with some very interesting results. First, only 44% support making it legal for doctors to assist the suicides of patients. When the terminology is changed to permit doctors to give their patients the means to make themselves die, the number is still only 51%. This is a far cry . . . . Continue Reading »

Harvard’s Doug Melton is one of the nation’s foremost biotech researchers into embryonic stem cells. He was interviewed recently in Discover magazine. You need to be a subscriber to access the entire article. So, I have reprinted a few choice quotes from the piece below, which provide . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists may have discovered stem cells in human placentas that are pluripotent. If true, with 4 million births in the USA each year, there would be plenty of these stem cells obtainable. Isn’t it amazing? The afterbirth is looking like a tremendous potential source of moral and ethical . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t see the piece authored by the splendid Michael Fumento that caused the seething anger expressed by animal liberationists in these “hate” letters. But they, and Fumento’s replies, although more sarcastic than I would choose to be, are quite educational. Worth a . . . . Continue Reading »

This analysis of recent research in The Lancet demonstrates that bone marrow stem cells look to be very promising to cure a wide array of diseases. Here is a key portion, with my clarifying comments in italics:“We now know that bone marrow-derived stem-cells circulate systemically and actively . . . . Continue Reading »

Adding heft to my article published two days ago in the NRO, is this article published in The Guardian. I believe that the writer, Richard Ryder, is a mentor of Peter Singer. He coined “speciesism,” which is discrimination against animals, deemed by liberationists (and many bioethicists) . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA’s new “Animal Liberation Project” begins with the assertion, “We are all animals.” PETA doesn’t mean this statement to reflect a biological truth, but rather, to create a moral equivalency between animals and humans. Animal rights/liberation ideology is . . . . Continue Reading »

Dogs have for years proved to be impossible to clone. No longer. Woo Suk Hwang, the human cloner, has now succeeded in bringing a dog clone to birth. Why is this important? Biotechnologists are solving the technical difficulties that have made cloning to birth difficult and dangerous in animals. . . . . Continue Reading »