Wesley J. Smith

I think that prisoners should have a less robust right to refuse medical treatment than the rest of us because they, by definition, have lost their right to personal autonomy.  This isn’t to say it shouldn’t exist, but it is to say that prison officials should have a limited ability . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s a parody.  It must be.  A normal hurricane, not huge as these things go and the first to hit the USA in three years, takes an unusual—but certainly not unprecedented—path up the East Coast’s most populated areas, and the hysterics start screaming about global . . . . Continue Reading »

How refreshing.  The media so often focus on doctor-prescribed death advocates and social outlaws like Kevorkian, that people who do really good, compassionate, and important work with people who are dying rarely receive their due.  That is why I am very happy to see a front page SF . . . . Continue Reading »

Increasingly the medical intelligentsia are pushing a dual mandate on physicians in the name of cutting costs—one to patients and one to society—and when they conflict, many want the individual’s needs to be subsumed to the collective. This attempt to redefine medical . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most insidious aspects of Obamacare was the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board to control Medicare costs via virtual bureaucratic fiat, an issue I have inveighed against before.  I enter the fray against the IPAB again in this week’s To The Source.  Here is . . . . Continue Reading »

I was sorry to hear that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple over health issues.  But ever since his liver transplant in 2009, with reports he had “tumors,” I have had a nagging feeling that he received special treatment because he was Steve  Jobs in the same way that Mickey . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide movement teaches people how to commit suicide by self starvation. To be clear, I am not talking about when people stop eating as a natural part of the natural dying process.  That isn’t suicide.  But rather, refusing food and water, not because one can’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Google’s business slogan was once, “Don’t be evil,” which the company dropped in 2009.  Perhaps they should have kept it.  Now, Google is paying a $500 million fine for knowingly allowing on-line pharmacies that illegally sell drugs without a prescription to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands used to be the heart of euthanasia darkness.  It is still dark, but the culture of death crown has passed to Belgium, which not only legalized doctor-injected killing, but has enthusiastically embraced euthanasia’s logical corollaries.  And now, we find that the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is funny.How often do we hear about studies claiming to demonstrate that liberals are smarter than conservatives, or conservatives live in a world dominated by fear: You know the drill. Well now a study has come out stating that those who believe that utilitarianism is the best approach to . . . . Continue Reading »