TagWesley J. Smith
Anthony Fauci and Trust in Public Health: An Inside View
Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith
Former CDC Director Discusses the Covid Years: What Worked, Didn’t
Robert Redfield’s surprising interview with Wesley Smith shows that there was significant opposition within the agency to the vaccine mandates
View: Universities Should Not Speak Up Against Dissenting Profs!
Jay Bhattacharya and Wesley J. Smith respond to an article in a medical journal arguing that universities SHOULD censure dissenters on the faculty
Bill Dembski: Einstein’s Advice to Bright Young University Grads
His advice, bellowed in parting, may seem obvious but it is challenging in a world that often protects sacred cows over evidence
Tobacco and Technocracy
Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom?I don’t smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as “Tobacco Free Generation” (TFG). It’s Pretty Clever Allow people who can legally buy tobacco today to purchase it, but permanently outlaw the sale of tobacco products to people based on the date of their birth — even as they become adults — as described glowingly in the New England Journal of Medicine: The bylaw, passed by Brookline, Massachusetts, gradually phases out commercial tobacco by banning the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000 (one of us cosponsored the bylaw). Read More ›
COVID Felled Both Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci as Heroes
As Wesley J. Smith recounts, more honest researchers were discredited for saying things that Fauci and Collins later admitted to be true
Utah Goes Up Against “Nature Rights”
Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong.
Mainstream Publication Endorses Suicide
The Politico story violates media guidelines and does a profound disservice to our society.
Being a Good Scientist Doesn’t Mean Being an Effective Leader
Francis Collins admits that they botched the COVID-19 response.
Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?
From David Barash’s perspective, the humanzee’s suffering is rendered worthwhile precisely because it enables the denigration of other human beings
Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope
Once a society embraces death as the answer to suffering, what counts as suffering never stops expanding.
Organ Transplants: How the Internet Enables the Dark Side
Euthanasia activists offer to "ease" the donor organ shortage, and so do cartels that exploit the world’s most vulnerable poor
Should Animals Be Able to Vote? Some Animal Rights Activists Think So
Here's a taste of just how absurd and extreme "animal rights" has become.
The United Nations is Considering Granting “Ocean Rights”
Why is granting “rights” to oceans becoming a thing?
Affirmative Action and Health Care
It is high time that our medical journals stick to medicine.
More Ideological Alarmism in Yet Another Top Journal
Ideology continues to harm the scientific endeavor.
AI as Refashioned Religion
How AI fits into the transhumanist utopian dream, and where that dream might have come from
The Technocracy Continues to Grow
We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy