Wesley J. Smith

My friends at the Discovery Institute are publishing a monthly on-line newsletter, edited by moi, called The Human Exceptionalist.  It is the next step up for the Center for Human Exceptionalism, of which I am co-director.As readers of SHS know, I believe that anti humanism is one of the major . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote here a few weeks ago about the European Union’s highest court ruling that products made from embryonic stem cell research cannot be patented.  First Things asked me to do a longer article, which appears today in The Public Square.  I start by explaining that . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember the constant outcry against President George W. Bush’s embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) federal funding restrictions? Even though his administration issued more than $600 million in NIH grants for human ESCR, and much more than that for animal studies, Bush was castigated widely for preventing selfless scientists from creating a robust regenerative medical sector that, the critics claimed, possessed virtually unlimited potential to ameliorate suffering and cure disease… . Continue Reading »

I have been warning about this for years: Here’s the game that is afoot.  Some among the same sector that once assured a nervous culture that vital organs are only procured from the truly dead, are now saying it was a ruse all along. Understand, this isn’t an ethical call . . . . Continue Reading »

I knew this was true, but it is nice to see someone so close to the Obama Administration, namely Ezekiel Emanuel, say it.  Emanuel used to be the head bioethicist at the NIH and was one of President Obama’s primary advisers on healthcare issues. He is now a professor of . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times has a sickening story on how badly helpless and vulnerable people with develomental disabilities are treated in state care.  (This is an issue I have seen first hand, once caring for a developmentally disabled man who was terribly abused while in state care.)  From, . . . . Continue Reading »

Cesarean sections will soon be treated as a lifestyle right in the UK, rather than a surgical procedure properly restricted to women who demonstrate a therapeutic need.  And, it will not only be “on demand” for those women who don’t wish to experience the travail of . . . . Continue Reading »

We live in such an odd and hypocritical age.  Republican candidate Herman Cain got in trouble with those who matter because one of his internet ads showed a campaign worker smoking. Horrors! Children might see the ad and pick up a cigarette! Doesn’t Cain know smoking causes . . . . Continue Reading »

New Jersey nurses won a temporary restraining order against being forced to participate in abortion.  From the AP story:A New Jersey hospital says it will temporarily stop requiring nurses to  assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds. A group of nurses filed suit . . . . Continue Reading »

Hwang Woo suk, the Korean fraudster, faked human cloning and was published in Science, which only reluctantly moved to retract, perhaps because the editors wanted it to be true. (Amazingly, a court just ruled that Hwang was wrongly fired after his fraud!) And now another science charlatan has been . . . . Continue Reading »