Wesley J. Smith

I have seen this story reported, but didn’t mention it here until further developments.  But now there might be a Congressional investigation, so the time has come to bring it up.  A company founded to sell carbon credits—what a racket!—is being accused of forcefully . . . . Continue Reading »

I once called euthanasia, “heroin.”  My point was—and is—that once a culture starts mainlining mercy killing, it will always wants more. And now a Dutch euthanasia advocacy groups wants to create mobile euthanasia clinics.  From the CBS story:The main . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, that didn’t take long.  The Olympian has editorialized in favor of the assisted suicide law to allow “euthanasia” beyond assisted suicide for the terminally ill. From a column by a member of the Olympian Board of Contributors:To improve the chances of passage, the . . . . Continue Reading »

The in-the-tank media is huffing and puffing, trying to make something important out of an entirely predictable recommendation by the Royal Society of Canada commission to legalize euthanasia.  But commissions can be created to obtain a specific result, as this one was and did.In . . . . Continue Reading »

What a debacle is our non beloved Obamacare, what an awful mess.  Now, we find that the law does not provide for premium subsidies if the states do not set up insurance exchanges.  From a Wall Street Journal column by Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon:  The . . . . Continue Reading »

This site, and most of what I do, involves human exceptionalism, bioethics, and the like.  But I still care about areas about which I formerly focused.  And sometimes, I take metaphorical pen in hand.Pervasive secrecy corrupts the societal purposes of our civil justice system. Today in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Was it something I said?  The site is under a pretty large SPAM attack.  I am sorry, but any comments sent there by the filters will probably be thrown out with the true trash. I just don’t have the ability to keep sorting through the list to find mistakes.  Thanks for . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the Daily Caller advocating, yet again, that the proper way to allow medical marijuana is to change the Controlled Substances Act. I begin complaining about the unprincipled nature of the current marijuana mess in California, and fix some blame. From “The Principled Way . . . . Continue Reading »

This is huge. Geron, which has spent many years touting its embryonic stem cell program as the future of regenerative medicine, is abandoning the field.  From the Washington Post story:The company doing the first government-approved test of embryonic stem cell therapy is discontinuing further . . . . Continue Reading »

Set me free, why don’t ya, Baby? Get out my life, why don’t ya Baby?  Because you don’t really love me, you just keep me hangin’ on.  You don’t really need me, but you keep me hangin’ on.  Why don’t ya get out of my life, and let me make a new . . . . Continue Reading »