Wesley J. Smith

I wrote about this once before, but I think it is important enough to repeat.  In what I think is a material threat to the science sector, scientists are on trial in Italy because they failed to accurately predict a deadly earthquake.  From the Daily Telegraph story:The trial - due to . . . . Continue Reading »

We often hear from doctor-prescribed death advocates that assisted suicide legalization improves palliative care.  It’s not true.  Increased attention to the issue, e.g. hospice and public and professional education programs do.  Indeed, about a decade ago, Rhode Island outlawed . . . . Continue Reading »

Atlas of the World wildly misstates the territory of Greenland that is now supposedly ice free.  Scientists have cried foul. From the ScienceInsider story:So much for claims that climate scientists deliberately misrepresent their data: glaciologists are broadly and loudly panning the latest . . . . Continue Reading »

If they weren’t trying to destroy the economy of the world, keep destitute countries mired in poverty, undermine national sovereignty, and misusing science as a club to promote favored political policies, I might have some sympathy for all of the failed hysteria.  You know what I mean, . . . . Continue Reading »

The answer to the question posed by the Headline: They all threaten to empower, in the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, a “scientific-technological elite.”  Here’s the quote, via The Volokh Conspiracy blog:The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by . . . . Continue Reading »

I am still steamed at Pat Robertson’s blessing of abandoning a spouse with Alzheimer’s and moving on with life, so long as custodial care is provided, lamely excused by his claiming that Alzheimer’s is a “walking death,” and that such patients, “are gone, . . . . Continue Reading »

Something must be done.  Dolphins are killing porpoises in Monterey Bay!  From the San Francisco Chronicle story:The harbor porpoise that washed ashore last month at San Francisco’s Fort Funston was clearly a victim of foul play. It had two badly broken jawbones, fractured ribs on . . . . Continue Reading »

The headline is provocative, but I think it is accurate.  With the HPV vaccine in the news, I thought I would check to see what happened with AB 499, a bill that would allow children to receive STD preventative treatment—e.g. HPV vaccine—without parental knowledge or consent.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Pat Robertson approves of seeing “other people” and/or divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s because it is a “kind of death.”  From a 700 Club segment (first two minutes of clip) in which Robertson answers a question about a man started seeing other people after his . . . . Continue Reading »

Shame on the jury who, in effect, agreed that a now happy child born with disabilities would be better off dead via abortion.  From the Palm Beach Post story:During a roughly two-week-long trial that ended Wednesday, Mejia and Santana claimed they would have never have brought Bryan into the . . . . Continue Reading »