Wesley J. Smith

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Addressing the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›

^{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

Racism, Evolution, and Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

Certain threads in the events of recent months suggest the hand of a skilled novelist. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

First Child Dies Under Belgium’s Euthanasia Law

_{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

Writing at First Things, Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith discusses the alarming first case of child euthanasia in Belgium. Belgium is the only country to have legalized physician-assisted suicide for children of any age. Read more from Wesley J. Smith at First Things.

^{Discovery Institute
February 18, 2014
Human Exceptionalism}

The War on Humans

_{Discovery Institute
February 18, 2014
Human Exceptionalism}

Are humans the enemy? Should pigs and peas have constitutional rights? The War on Humans is a 31-minute documentary that critiques growing efforts to disparage the value of humans in the name of saving the planet. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2013
Human Exceptionalism}

Getting Ready for Russell Crowe as Noah? Check Out Wesley Smith’s The War on Humans

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2013
Human Exceptionalism}

A trailer for the new documentary from the Discovery Institute: The War on Humans, and companion e-book now available at http://www.waronhumans.com

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

End-of-Life Decisions and the Bureaucracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

When I learned today that the federal bureaucracy had promulgated a rule compensating physicians for the time they spend counseling patients on end-of-life health-care decisions, I wasn’t surprised. A similar provision was dropped from the Obamacare bill, but anyone who understands the profoundly bureaucratic nature of contemporary government knew that that was not necessarily the end of it. The 2,700-page Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

Time to End Stem Cell Institute

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

Hubris: No better word describes the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s plan to persuade Californians to borrow another $3 billion to keep it in business funding stem cell research. The CIRM was created in 2004 in the wake of President George W. Bush’s order restricting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Knowing that many Californians perceived themselves as “the Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

Is the Wall Against Human Cloning About to Fall?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2010
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith & Dr. Theresa Deisher discuss the ethics of cloning and the potential slippery slope that cloning could bring. Part of the McNaughton Fellows Lecture Series at Discovery Institute.

^{Discovery Institute
March 29, 2010
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: Book Release Party

_{Discovery Institute
March 29, 2010
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

Wesley J. Smith, a prolific bioethicist, lectures on his new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy. He argues for human exceptionalism and, being special creatures, human’s responsibility in the world. A book party and part of The McNaughton Fellows Lecture Series, March 18, 2010. Related

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

A Myth Is as Good as a Mile

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent item from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Charlotte Shultz [the wife of former secretary of state George Shultz] accepted the invitation to be honorary co- chair (with Dianne Feinstein) at a Nov. 5 luncheon and program for Compassion & Choices of Northern Read More ›