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Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

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Award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the... Full Bio
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SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics What Rat learned when he drove through the San Francisco Bay Area. Goat must be from Berkeley. Read on »
Another (Barely) Veiled Threat of Murder by a Notable Animal Rights Radical by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This comes very close to an outright death threat--without quite being one. An animal rights terrorist supporter named Jason Miller has strongly hinted that a UCLA animal rese ... Read on »
Even the Scientists Now Criticize the ESCR Hype by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Science has a good piece in the current issue exposing the hype that has permeated embryonic stem cell research advocacy and its reporting by media. In "A Stem Cell History Le ... Read on »
The New Star Trek Movie: Human/Vulcan Exceptionalism by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Secondhand Smokette and I caught the Star Trek prequel today, and I thoroughly enjoyed it as a fun adventure, but more precisely, as a loving homage to the original series (wh ... Read on »
A Casualty of Popular Culture's Pro Assisted Suicide Campaign by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics We have discussed the suicide proselytizing in the media and popular culture here many times on SHS. But this story hits the nail! A woman with MS named Angela Harrison watche ... Read on »
Washington State Assisted Suicide Non Cooperation Campaign Still Strong by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Washington State's assisted suicide controversy continues to burn. Articles keep coming out complaining that patients who legally qualify for help in killing themselves are be ... Read on »
Stop the Whining About Swine Flu "Alarmism" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The times in which we live can be so disheartening: The swine flu--known in its politically correct name as H1N1 Flu--appears not to have become the deadly pandemic some feare ... Read on »
"Artificial Life" is Not "Real Life?" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The lexicon we use in discussing bioethical issues is important. And look how this newspaper does it in a poll to measure attitudes about refusing unwanted treatment. From the ... Read on »
One Consequence of Coup de Culture is Death/Sex Decadence by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Hedonism--the scratching of every itch, indulgence of very impulse, breaking of nearly every norm--is very much central to our ongoing coup de culture. Hedonism has consequenc ... Read on »
Irish Socialized Medicine Shortchanges the Terminally Ill by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Dying people in Ireland are having a hard time accessing vital hospice services under the country's socialized medical system. From the Story: TERMINALLY ill patients are bein ... Read on »
Face Transplants Good: Our Reactions Against People With Disfigurements, Not Good by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I guess face transplants--wherein a patient receives the "face" of a cadaver--are news because they are new. But I don't see why anyone would oppose them--at least as a recons ... Read on »
Michael Savage Banned from UK: But Philip Nitschke Allowed In for the Magical Suicide Tour by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I don't listen to Michael Savage, but it seems odd to me that a talk radio shock jock would be banned from the UK because of things he has said, but that Philip Nitschke would ... Read on »
Daschle's Dishonesty by Omission in the Great Health Care Debate by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Almost Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle has a piece in Newsweek promoting national health care. Some of what he writes is accurate, but the column is utterly di ... Read on »
American Public Equally Split About Abortion by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Pew Poll has published its latest results, dealing with gun control--beyond our scope here--and abortion. Given the politics of our rulers in Washington DC--which can only ... Read on »
SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics We need our newspapers! The problem is the quality of the editors: The problem is the quality of the reporters: The problem is the quality of the public:The problem is also ... Read on »
Legislation Filed to Prevent "Mandatory Psychological Screening" of Children by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I never thought it would come to this, and I am not a fan of Ron Paul. But... Paul and others have introduced H.R. 2218, called the "Parental Consent Act." The purpose of the ... Read on »
Shameless Specter Blames "GOP Health Policies" for Death of Jack Kemp by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Jack Kemp died yesterday of cancer, with which he was only diagnosed in January. By the time it was caught, it had spread throughout his body. Those who knew him mourn, and th ... Read on »
More "Science" Word Engineering: "Global Warming" to become "Atmospheric Deterioration" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The science intelligentsia and our betters among the liberal elite want what they want--and they aren't about to be constrained by the rules of fair and honest debate to get i ... Read on »
Nitschke: We Don't Want You in the USA Either by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Poor Philip Nitschke, so unliked, misunderstood, and unwanted. Here he is on a mission of mercy to permit old people to take Mexican animal euthanasia drugs if they are tired ... Read on »
Culture of Death Watch: The Media Are Becoming Increasingly Pro Suicide by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Pay close attention to how the story I am about to discuss from the Philadelphia Inquirer was written to give a favorable impression of a suicide. It is about a woman named R ... Read on »