Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.

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Animal Rights Arsonists

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Animal liberationist thugs continue to try and prevent Oxford University from opening a research center that would conduct crucial medical experiments with primates. Now, they have burned down an Oxford boathouse. Worse will come next unless law enforcement and co-believers squelch this criminality. . . . . Continue Reading »

My Obituary for Dame Cecily Saunders

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I checked around, and from what I could tell, the death of the great founder of the modern hospice movement was completely ignored by the American media. What a travesty. Had she promoted policies that promoted suicide or other destructive medical approaches to the ill or disabled, she would have . . . . Continue Reading »

Dame Cicely Saunders Has Died

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Dame Cicely Saunders, MD, the founder of the modern hospice movement, died in the hospice she founded. She was one of the great medical humanitarians of our era and I had the great honor of spending about an hour with her preparing for my book Culture of Death. Ralph Nader once said that it is a . . . . Continue Reading »