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What the Homeless Owe Us

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023}

We often hear about what “we”—i.e., society—owe the homeless. But we rarely discuss what the unhoused owe us. It’s time for that to change.

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023}

Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam.

U.K. Medical Society Goes ‘Neutral’ on Euthanasia as Quebec Expands Eligibility

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 20, 2023}

How in the world can a medical association be neutral on granting doctors a license to kill or assist the suicide of their patients? This is a matter of the gravest medical ethical concern, an action, remember, that was strictly proscribed 2,500 years ago in the Hippocratic Oath.

England’s National Health Service Bans Most Puberty-Blocking

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2023}

The science is not settled. The time is long past for the woke media and medical associations to recognize this fact.

California Is Waging an Ever-More-Aggressive LGBT Culture War

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2023}

Two bills currently moving through the California Legislature reveal how committed the state’s progressive political leaders are to imposing legal hegemony favoring LGBT social agendas.

Is the Plan to Impose a Public-Health Technocracy Faltering?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2023}

In February, I warned about a treaty being negotiated to empower the WHO to declare a pandemic, which would trigger governments assuming emergency powers.

To Restore Faith in Public Health, We Need Truth Commissions

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 7, 2023}

We have seen the erosion of the scientific method through the suppression of dissenting points of view.

UN Human Rights Recommendation Brands Abortion Restrictions “Racial Discrimination”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 3, 2023}

Simply as a matter of strategy, the just cause of eliminating racism should focus exclusively on fighting actual discriminatory policies.

Should We Give Nature “Rights”? A Premier Science Journal Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 1, 2023}

The text is too long to present here, so I will give one example: the “right to evolve.” The authors note that “evolution” has many meanings.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s Next Big Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 28, 2023}

The emergence of Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as a public figure was one of the few salutary consequences of the Covid pandemic.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s Next Big Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 28, 2023}

Known as the Norfolk Group, Bhattacharya and his co-authors hope to create a national commission to explore the official responses to Covid.

The Push Has Started to Let Adults Have Sex With Adolescents

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 26, 2023}

The potential associated consequences of intense sexual affairs with adults, such as emotional turmoil, unplanned pregnancies, and pressures to abort, are burdens against which all young people should be protected.

Scientists Urged to Aid ‘Rights of Nature’ in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 20, 2023}

The major science journals are growing increasingly hard left politically. The prestigious journal Science, in particular, has swallowed progressive ideology–including supporting the “nature rights” movement.

Bioethicists: Killing Okay for “Unjust Social Conditions”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2023}

I can’t imagine this being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul.

Bioethicists: Euthanasia Okay for ‘Unjust Social Conditions’

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2023}

Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there becomes no end to the “suffering” that justifies human termination. We can see this phenomenon most vividly in Canada, because it is happening there more quickly than in most cultures. For example, a recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians polled strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28 percent strongly or moderately agree that killing by doctors is acceptable for suffering caused by homelessness. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. I can’t imagine that being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. This kind of abandoned thinking finds enthusiastic, albeit not unanimous, expression among …

Texas ‘Futile Care’ Law May Soon Be Less Authoritarian

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2023}

If, for some reason, H.B. 3162 does not make it all the way through the legislative process to law, may the lawsuits pour down like hail on Texas hospitals that impose futile-care impositions.

Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2023}

Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland.

‘Galactic Wokeness?’

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2023}

Almost all notable science journals promote progressive ideology, and Nature — perhaps the world’s most prestigious science journal — is one of the worst of these propagandizers. The publication recently provided a platform to equity advocate Erika Nesvold, co-founder of JustSpace Alliance, who advocates “for a more inclusive and ethical future in space.” In the interview, she argues that future space colonies — which she would consider a verboten term — should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco. From “Ethics in Outer Space: Can We Make Interplanetary Exploration Just: You talk about ‘settling’ space, rather than colonizing it. Why? Because of all the terrible behaviour that came out of the colonization …

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023}

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value.

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 2, 2023}

This is the kind of thinking that results from rejecting the intrinsic moral value of human life. Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer — who is most famous for secularly blessing infanticide — just compared abortion to turning off a computer.