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The New York Times Is Unfit to Be ‘The Newspaper of Record’

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2022}

Its biases are too pronounced and its agendas too partisan. Perhaps the time has come for the paper to change its masthead motto to reflect its true approach to journalism: “All the news that we see fit to print.”

Johns Hopkins Analysis: ‘Lockdowns Should be Rejected Out of Hand’

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2022}

The aura of “expert” has lost its luster during Covid, as our supposedly bigger brains have been proved wrong repeatedly.

Defending Catholic Healthcare

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2022}

The threats against religious freedom in the United States have become so acute that five major Catholic organizations have formed the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance (CHCLA), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to defending the right of Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions—as well as Catholic doctors, nurses, and pharmacists—to provide care and treatment in accordance with the moral precepts of the Catholic Church.

Ideological Scientists Created the Science Credibility Gap

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2022}

We need a scientific community that bridges political divides. But rebuilding that trust infrastructure will require the scientific community to eschew ideology and pursue truth objectively, without regard to favored cultural priorities or desired partisan outcomes.

Spain Joins the Euthanize-and-Organ-Harvest Club

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2022}

In my first anti-euthanasia column, written for Newsweek in 1993, I warned that if assisted suicide/euthanasia became legal and normalized, it would lead to “organ harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.” Needless to say, I was called a fear monger, alarmist, and hysteric — and those were the polite hate mailers.

George Will Pushes the Hemlock

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2022}

In recent years, George Will has been writing columns on contentious cultural issues that have, to put it mildly, unpleasantly surprised many of his social-conservative admirers. Perhaps first and foremost among these was his coming out in 2015 as a believer in assisted suicide.

Hospital Loses ‘Futile Care’ Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2022}

“Futile care” is a pronounced threat to patient autonomy and the equality of all human life. This is the idea. When doctors think that the quality of a patient’s life is not worth living — but the patient, family, or surrogate want care to continue — doctors can overrule patients and terminate wanted life-sustaining treatment.

NBC Will Not Send Announcers to Beijing — for the Wrong Reason

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 20, 2022}

NBC shouldn’t cover the Games at all for reasons far beyond Covid-testing and isolation policies. Indeed, the world should shun the Olympics altogether.

What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2022}

I have always loved science fiction. So when Soylent Green was first released in 1973, I immediately headed to the theater. I remember clearly being shocked by the depictions presented but assuaging myself with the comforting thought that nothing like any of that would ever actually happen.

Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 15, 2022}

When we give up human exceptionalism, we go a bit mad and soon are eating our own tails. The green movement — which thinks it is attacking capitalism and fighting global warming — will find that out sooner rather than later if they succeed in granting rights to the natural world and its various elements.

We Should Cheer the Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2022}

This is an amazing potential advance in organ transplant medicine. A pig’s heart — genetically modified to not be rejected as readily — has been transplanted into a dying human patient.

Ezekiel Emanuel Wants Respiratory-Illness Technocracy Without End

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 8, 2022}

Sooner or later COVID will wane and probably become endemic — that is, part of life, like the flu. And with that, the newfound power of public-health technocrats would wane.

Peter Singer: Deny Unvaccinated ICU Care Versus Vaccinated

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2022}

The bullying around vaccines is getting out of hand. But then, Singer is fully vaccinated, needless to say. So, the cynic in me wonders whether he’s really saying, “Put me first.”

Stop ‘Authoritarian Climate Governance’ Before It is Too Late

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2022}

If COVID has taught us anything, it is that the technocratic class has little compunction about restricting freedom. Moreover, once they grab power, they are very reluctant to give it back.

Prenatal Search-and-Destroy Genetic Tests Often Wrong

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2022}

Eugenics is alive and well with prenatal testing deployed to detect conditions — such as Down syndrome and dwarfism — toward the frequent end (and often, purpose) of ensuring that offending babies are never born.

New York Department of Health Announces Discriminatory Policy on Covid Therapeutics Access

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2021}

This is why it is important to keep an eagle eye on advocacy in the professional journals. The articles published there are not mere intellectual musings. They are intended to be adopted as official policy — as we now see happening in New York State.

Medical Journal: Allow Adolescents to Consent When Parents Decline to Get Them Vaccinated

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 30, 2021}

There the New England Journal of Medicine goes again, publishing articles that promote an autocratic health-care system. This time, two bioethicists from the National Institutes of Health (!) ask the question, “Adolescents, Parents, and Covid-19 Vaccination — Who Should Decide?” I’ll bet you knew that the answer wouldn’t be the parents!

Biden Wants to ‘Woke’ Up Your Doctor

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 29, 2021}

The Biden Administration wants to pay doctors to create office “anti-racism plans” that could soon bring full blown critical race theory into your examining room.

Ezekiel Emanuel Wants Vaccine Refusers Denied Unemployment Benefits

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 28, 2021}

But why be surprised? The Left won’t be happy until vaccine refusers are unable to work, shop, or even venture outside their homes.

Swimming World Editor Tells Truth about Transgender Competition in Women’s Sports

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 23, 2021}

The Huffington Post just reported that a transgender swimmer “continues to smash records” in women’s college swimming meets. The athlete, Lia Thomas, was quoted in the story saying, “Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding.”