Wesley J. Smith

Over at the warming skeptical blog Climate Depot, Lord Monckton analyzed the proposals for a comprehensive anti global warming treaty. There is much he describes about which to be alarmed and oppose implacably.  For example, apparently an international global warming court is . . . . Continue Reading »

When Monsanto developed bovine growth hormone, the FDA determined it was safe.  Fine and dandy. But when some milk producers labeled their food as being BGH-free, why Monsanto sued claiming that such labeling implied that their product was unsafe, and hence a form of defamation.  In . . . . Continue Reading »

Real Clear Politics linked an essay over at the Daily Caller by Mark Judge speculating that atheist Christopher Hitchens may be moving toward Christianity.  Not only is there very little—none really—evidence for that, but I don’t think it is right to speculate about such . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher Hitchens has what we are told is terminal esophageal cancer.  Hopefully, that process will reverse or take a very long time. But because he is famous, in a sense all comments about his personal situation—as opposed to his work—take on the aspect of a community . . . . Continue Reading »

This letter to the editor from a physician about the failure of Oregon’s doctor-prescribed suicide guidelines to protect a vulnerable patient is poignant, but ultimately, irrelevant.  All that matters is a desire to die by the patient coupled (for now) with a terminal diagnosis. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a fundamental principle: Unless parents have legally lost parental control or children are emancipated legally, they should decide on the medical treatment received by their children. But there is a war against such parental control, particularly in areas touching on sexuality and . . . . Continue Reading »

Human beings are exceptional.  I honestly don’t know how anyone can begin to deny it.  In the known universe, there has never been a species possessing our unique attributes, which are distinctions that make a moral difference, such as rationality, moral agency, the capacity for . . . . Continue Reading »

How do I put this delicately?  As men—-age—they may find that their—prowess—can’t be as frequently—expressed—as when they were young bucks.  But we live in an age in which a certain demographic—mine, actually—is targeted for drugs and . . . . Continue Reading »

Media creates myths that revise history.  Example: ”Terri’s Law,” by which Congress sought to save Terri Schiavo’s life is now called a “Republican” intrusion into a private situation.  But guess how many Democrats in the U.S. Senate opposed the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is hysterical.  To publicize the skeptics’ case—and to protest their exclusion from the in-crowd climate conference—Lord Monckton has parachuted into Durbin.  Very funny stunt.I met Lord Monckton last summer when we both spoke at the same conference.  When we . . . . Continue Reading »