Wesley J. Smith

With the failure of Hillarycare in the early 1990s, health maintenance organizations became one of the primary forms of American health insurance.  Liberals screamed–including yours truly–that HMOs cut levels of care and stint on patient welfare in the name of saving money.  HMOs . . . . Continue Reading »

The Culture of Death is voracious.  Once it begins to feed, it is never satiated, the categories of the killable, never finally enough.Another is a very long series of cases in point that I have been reporting on for nearly twenty years.  The Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) now seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »

The AMA News has an article out about how Obamacare is looking increasingly to bust the bank.  It gets into the supposed need to restrict access to treatments based on ”evidence based” medicine, the propriety of which, it seems to me, depends on how that term is defined in the . . . . Continue Reading »

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The emotional commitment in some intellectual quarters to human UNexceptionalism continues to alarm me.  As does the belief that scientific findings have reduced us to mere meat.  We are far more than that.Part of it may involve a disdain for religion in some quarters that conflates HE . . . . Continue Reading »

Progress.  Senegal is slowly moving away from the practice of cutting off girls’ clitorises.  From the New York Times story:,SARE HAROUNA, Senegal — When Aissatou Kande was a little girl, her family followed a tradition considered essential to her suitability to marry. Her . . . . Continue Reading »

The term, “whipping a dead horse,” came to mind as I read a NYT opinion piece by their environmental reporter, Elizabeth Rosenthal.  She bemoans the reality that the USA just isn’t that into global warming anymore.  From “Where Did Global Warming Go?”:In 2008, . . . . Continue Reading »

So much for “choice:”  The Telegraph is reporting that some UK hospitals secretly apply DNR orders—without patient/family knowledge or consent—against elderly patients.  From the story:Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals . . . . Continue Reading »

How can anyone deny human exceptionalism?  A New York Times story reveals that scientists have found the  remains of a “paint factory” in which exceptional humans in Africa used ocher for symbolic purposes 100,000 years ago.  From the story:Of special importance to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Psychiatrists shouldn’t practice amateur psychology from a distance or use their perceived authority to make points driven by their politics.  But that seems precisely what psychiatry professor Justin Frank has done twice now, once writing a book declaring W to have been . . . . Continue Reading »