Wesley Smith

Washington, D.C., United States

Host at Humanize with Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism

Host of Humanize Podcast, Chair, Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism. Author. Lawyer. Talking Head. Public Speaker. https://t.co/yPhrPE2Kp0

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Bioethics Is Becoming Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

5 days ago | nationalreview.com | Wesley Smith
Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide

1 week ago | humanize.today | Wesley Smith

Five years ago, the highest court in Germany declared that committing suicide is a fundamental right — for everybody and for any reason — and that being assisted or assisting others in the act are ancillary rights associated with that liberty. In other words, death on demand. Now the Supreme Court of Estonia appears to have followed the same course. Here’s the context: A man who provided a suicide machine to those who wanted to kill themselves was acquitted of any culpability.
Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide | National Review

1 week ago | nationalreview.com | Wesley Smith
A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

1 week ago | humanize.today | Wesley Smith

“Futile care” is a bioethics theory in which doctors are authorized to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on their belief about the quality of a patient’s life. It can be cruel — and on occasion, mistaken. Prominent medical journals usually support futile-care theory. But the New England Journal of Medicine just published a contrary column by a compassionate doctor who rejected that approach in order to keep hope alive for his terminally ill patient and her family.
A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

1 week ago | nationalreview.com | Wesley Smith
Evolution News and Science Today

1 week ago | evolutionnews.org | Wesley Smith |Wesley Smith

The editors of medical journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are ruining the once venerable reputations of their publications by continually publishing hard-left-wing polemics about controversial political issues — such as race relations, gun regulation, and climate change — in the guise of deeming them matters of public health.
Human Kidney Suppliers Should Be Donors, Not Vendors

1 week ago | humanize.today | Wesley Smith

There are some 91,000 people with severe kidney disease waiting for transplants. Alas, cadaver and living donors are insufficient to fill the need. That has some well-meaning activists pushing to increase the number of available kidneys by legalizing organ-selling. The psychiatrist and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Sally Satel is probably the premier proponent of this approach. She has skin in the game, having received two living-donor organs.
Human Kidney Suppliers Should be Donors, not Vendors

2 weeks ago | nationalreview.com | Wesley Smith
The DOJ Should Not Investigate Woke Medical Journals

2 weeks ago | humanize.today | Wesley Smith

a-stethoscope-rests-on-an-open-medical-book-this-image-symbo-942284085-stockpack-adobestock Humanize From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism Share Facebook Twitter/X LinkedIn Flipboard Print Type post Categories Public Health Tagged , Department of Justice, First Amendment, Free Speech, new england journal of medicine Originally published at National Review Categories Public Health The editors of medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are...
Discovering Life Beyond Earth Would Demonstrate the Truth of Human Exceptionalism

2 weeks ago | humanize.today | Wesley Smith

Science writer Matt Ridley has always had a reductionist view of the moral importance of human beings. He’s at it again in a piece about the likelihood that scientists will eventually find proof of life beyond this world. Ridley thinks that chances of such a momentous discovery are good. No argument there. The universe is so vast and inhabitable (as we understand the term) planets so numerous, it would be truly remarkable if life only existed here.

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22 Apr 25

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22 Apr 25

It was more a slam at Maher, but it definitely equated Trump with Hitler.

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“Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler.” Unlike Larry David’s piece, the Times editor’s take on it is actually funny. If you’re going to publish satire, at least have the guts to defend it. https://t.co/HNCNkQCBhi

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22 Apr 25

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