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Wesley J. Smith

Beautiful rays of sunlight in a green forest

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 13, 2024

Categorized
Environment}

World Economic Forum Pushes Forest Rights

_{Nature isn’t a being. It doesn’t possess “wisdom.” Only people do} _{Wesley J. Smith
November 13, 2024

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Environment}

This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. Our betters among the elites are increasingly embracing nature rights and its derivatives. Latest example: An editorial published by the World Economic Forum pushes “forest rights.” The Earth is burning and the fault is — ta-da! — capitalism! From, “Reimagining Capitalism — Giving Forests Legal Rights“: Capitalism, of course has, in many aspects, brought about incredible progress. Industrialization and globalization have propelled advances in life expectancy, education, and social welfare. But does this narrative still hold true? For the first time, GDP diverges from well-being indices in many nations. This exposes a system that not only engineers its own demise, but threatens humanity and the natural environment. Read More ›

Poppy field at sunset

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 7, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Politics

Tagged
Rita Marker}

West Virginia: Constitutional Amendment Bans Assisted Suicide

_{I just wish my mentor on this issue, Rita Marker, had lived to see it} _{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024

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Ethics, Law, Politics}

Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away.

Consensus word made of square letter block on green square mat background.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 6, 2024

Categorized
Media, Politics, Science

Tagged
Kamala Harris and science publication endorsements, Operation Warp Speed}

Nature Editorial Attacks Trump for Ignoring “Scientific Consensus”

_{Mistrust of the state, which the editorialists fear, doesn’t weaken democracy. It is essential to its proper functioning. Hence the Constitution and Bill of Rights} _{Wesley J. Smith
November 6, 2024

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Media, Politics, Science}

Nature, a British publication, should stay out of American politics; otherwise, it breeds the very mistrust of the science sector that it decries.

White dove in flight with a cityscape background at sunset

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 3, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Law

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Hemlock Society, Rita Marker}

Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted-Suicide Champion, Dead at 83

_{I am convinced that in her time, Rita was the most effective anti-assisted-suicide/euthanasia champion in the world} _{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

3

Ethics, Law}

Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.

Blue Ice covered mountains in south polar ocean. Winter Antarctic landscape. The mount's reflection in the crystal clear water. The cloudy sky over the massive rock glacier. Travel wild nature

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 30, 2024

Categorized
Environment, Law}

Fighting for the Rights of . . . Antarctica?

_{Environmentalism is growing increasingly irrational. Advocates are now pushing to give rights to a continent} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2024

3

Environment, Law}

Policy-makers should pass laws declaring that only humans and our associations are entitled to rights and standing in courts.

Vial With Pentobarbital Used For Euthanasia And Lethal Inyecion In A Hospital

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 25, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Canada and Euthanasia, Euthanasia in Canada}

Canada’s Euthanasia Horrors Are Accelerating

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 25, 2024

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

27% of Canadians strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28% for suffering caused by homelessness.

A personalized medicine approach using patient derived organoids for testing drug responses, optimizing treatments

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 23, 2024

Categorized
Biology, Ethics

Tagged
bioethics}

Should ‘Experts’ Decide the Morality of Making ‘Humanized Animals’?

_{A major new article discusses implanting functional human brain tissue into animals, which could enhance their mental capacities} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2024

7

Biology, Ethics}

We can’t allow policies about some of the most powerful and potentially dangerous technologies ever invented to be left to the supposed moral “experts.”

flags of Palestine and Israel painted on cracked wall

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 15, 2024

Categorized
Politics, Science}

Top Journal Nature Promotes Views of Anti-Israel Demonstrator

_{What any of this has to do with promoting science is beyond me. It’s politics and ideology, pure and simple. Perhaps that’s why the interview is not behind a paywall} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2024

4

Politics, Science}

The editors of Nature are destroying a once venerable and important science journal. That’s bad for science, which is bad for the world. Shame.

Kids feed elephant in zoo. Family at animal park.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 14, 2024

Categorized
Animal mind, Law, Politics

Tagged
Animal rights activism, Nonhuman Rights Project}

Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?

_{The Nonhuman Rights Project wants to become the guardian of five elephants at the Colorado Springs zoo and take control of their care} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2024

3

Animal mind, Law, Politics}

The zoo, where the elephants have lived for years, has a sterling reputation but the advocates believe that they know better what elephants would want.

a cake shop display a variety of delicious Christmas cakes

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 8, 2024

Categorized
Law

Tagged
Alliance Defending Freedom}

Jack Phillips Wins the ‘Cake-Baking’ Case

_{. . . but not on the merits, unfortunately. His legal troubles may not be over} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2024

4

Law}

What the country really needs is a strong Supreme Court decision unequivocally reinvigorating the free-exercise clause by overturning Employment Division v Smith

Exceptionally zoomed macro images of neural cells in the human brain

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 3, 2024

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Peer Review, Politics}

Scandal! Science Journal Busts Allegedly Bogus Neurological Science

_{If these leading dementia studies’ images are indeed falsified, many years of follow-up research by others may have been wasted} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 3, 2024

4

Medicine and Health, Peer Review, Politics}

Dementia is not politically sensitive. But if the topic were, say, gender dysphoria, would honesty be likewise demanded? No wonder so many doubt science now.

Hallucinogenic mushrooms grow in a natural environment. Mushrooms containing psilocybin.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 1, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Bioethicists Push Psychedelics to Make Life ‘Interesting’

_{The dangers of taking such drugs aside, their proposal reflects the reductionism of our time} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2024

4

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

What many people are really craving isn’t “interesting” experiences but meaning. But sources of meaning like faith, family, community, country, have decayed.

Representation of the nitrogen molecule with the n2 symbol. Generative AI

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 30, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Death by Nitrogen: Cruel or Death with Dignity?

_{We are told that suicide by nitrogen in the suicide pod is peaceful and dignified.} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2024

1

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Execution by nitrogen inhalation is another example of what I call cruel and unusual death with dignity.

Human internal organs on metal plate ready for organ transplant.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 27, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Organ harvesting}

Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

_{Conjoining organ harvesting with euthanasia is now deemed so respectable it is even boosted at the highest levels of the medical establishment} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2024

2

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Organ harvesting as the means of euthanasia has already been proposed in a major bioethics journal.

Top view of a caucasian hand with one blue MDMA, Amphetamine, Army Skull, Ecstasy, XTC pill.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 25, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health}

The ‘Suicide Capsule’ Claims Its First Victim

_{A photographer was present to record the death — meaning to create images for suicide proselytizing} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2024

3

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

I would be surprised if anything came of it. Authorities rarely have the gumption to seriously punish suicide assistance unless in involves a teenager.

A young woman holding the hand of an old woman in a hospital bed, black and white

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 21, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Charles Camosy, Nat Hentoff}

Delaware Governor Vetoes Assisted Suicide Legalization

_{Both a Democrat and a Republican governor have vetoed the practice. Opposition to the practice is culturally and religiously diverse} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2024

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Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health}

The longer the euthanasia movement is held at bay, the more likely that America can avoid becoming a culture of death like that in Canada.

A political rally with protest signs

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 17, 2024

Categorized
Politics, Science

Tagged
Kamala Harris and science publication endorsements}

The Science Establishment Continues to Politicize “Science”

_{And that ain’t good for science} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2024

5

Politics, Science}

Increasingly, those who claim to be science’s greatest defenders do the sector wrong by becoming highly ideological and progressively partisan.

Human kidney and money. Buy and sell human organ, healthcare, medical expenses concept

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 12, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
China, Organ harvesting}

Falun Gong Member Whose Organs Were Harvested Proves China’s Guilt

_{Prisoners like the Uyghurs or Falun Gong are valued for organ transplants on account of their clean living lifestyles, unlike common criminals} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 12, 2024

5

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

China has denied the accusation repeatedly, but multiple international studies and exposés have substantiated the brutality with strong circumstantial evidence.

Pediatrician checking throat of a girl

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 11, 2024

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Gender ideology, Rachel Levine}

Who Speaks at Top Children’s Doctors’ Conference?

_{The keynote speaker at this year’s American Academy of Pediatrics meet are very far from where most parents might expect} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 11, 2024

3

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Choosing Rachel Levine and Seema Yasmin as keynoters reveals how one-sidedly ideological the AAP has become on issues of great cultural importance.

The execution by injection concept is visualized with a judge's gavel and a syringe on a wooden table, highlighting capital punishment

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 9, 2024

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Politics}

Get Ready for ‘Public Health’ Authoritarianism

_{The medical establishment is laying the groundwork for imposing left-wing political policies from the top down and disguising them as health-related} _{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2024

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Medicine and Health, Politics}

Lately, columns in professional journals have argued repeatedly that our most contentious political controversies be redefined into issues of public health.