Wesley J. Smith

The pending nationalization of health care will come at a steep price beyond sclerotic bureaucratization, increased costs, and the stifling of innovation.  We will now begin to lose personal freedom in the name of cutting health care costs.Latest example: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor, is . . . . Continue Reading »

The idea of the “the consensus” was always an anti science meme.  The notion that the only “so-called” scientists who had substantial doubts about the global warming “crisis” were on the evil oil company payrolls, was always just a way to try to stifle . . . . Continue Reading »

Michell Bachmann’s reckless claim that the HPV vaccine can cause retardation is a growing news story.  (In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from . . . . Continue Reading »

The LA Times has an interesting story about whether doctors should tell imminently dying patients that they are about to expire.  The question asked, is whether this is the right thing to do.  From “Should Doctors Tell Patients When Death is Imminent:”A study published online . . . . Continue Reading »

Governor Perry’s executive order requiring all girls (I think at age 12) to receive the HPV vaccine—with a parental opt out—has become a legitimate political issue in the Republican primary, and I think, nationally.  Representative Bachmann charged Perry with “crony . . . . Continue Reading »

The United States Declaration of Independence states that it is a “self evident truth” that we all have an “inalienable right” to “the pursuit of happiness,” the key word, being “pursuit.”  Our founding document doesn’t decide what that . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh waaa!I don’t like petty blog feuds, and I am not launching one, here.  But for the second time, “faculty level” stem cell scientist Paul Knoepfler has made false accusations against me, and the Internet being what it is, I have to respond to keep the record . . . . Continue Reading »

The great Mark Steyn calls it a “fourth trimester abortion,” and I can’t top that, so I won’t even try. But here are the awful facts: A woman gave birth, strangled her unwanted baby to death, threw it in a neighbor’s yard—and the judge likened the murder to . . . . Continue Reading »

Another judge has ruled that the individual mandate under Obamacare is unconstitutional.  From the story:President Obama’s plan to require individual Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty exceeds the powers granted both the president and Congress by the Constitution, a . . . . Continue Reading »

I opposed Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for all of Texas’s girls. But this is ridiculous. In attempting to hit Perry for “crony capitalism” because of his ties to the vaccines manufacturer—a fair hit—she goes way out of bounds by . . . . Continue Reading »