Author: Wesley J. Smith

Veterinarian in protective clothing tending to a pig on a farm, emphasizing animal care and health management

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __featured2, AIDS, animal experiments, animal research, animals, bodily systems, brain, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, dialysis, Edward Taub, federal funding, human organs, human research, Jesse Gelsinger, kidney, Make America Healthy Again, medicine, monkeys, organ transplant, pigs, plasticity, primates, Research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., surgery, Towana Looney, World War II}

For MAHA’s Sake, Don’t Eliminate Animal Experimentation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Years ago, Dr. Edward Taub hypothesized that brain function could exhibit greater plasticity than it was believed at the time. Read More ›

Operation room surgery in hospital, blurred figures. Professional treatment and professional conduct concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __featured3, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Donation after Circulatory Death, euthanasia, lethal injection, lethal overdose, mental illness, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Netherlands, Ontario, organ harvesting, organs, statistics, suicidal people, suicide, terminal illness, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Bringing a Moral Horror to America: The Assisted-Suicide Movement Wants It

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Conjoining organ harvesting with assisted suicide or euthanasia gives society a “stake” in sick people being made dead. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, anti-capitalism, bees, climate change, geological features, government, habitat loss, human activity, humans, industry, insects, law, lawfare, lawsuits, nature rights, PETA, pollution, Smithsonian Magazine, stingless bees}

In Peru, Bees Are Granted the Right to Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Zoology

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It is not as if nature or animals need to be granted rights in order to be protected robustly. Read More ›

Human embryo shaped like an adorable baby floating among stars and cosmic dust, symbolizing fetus development, womb, gestation, amniotic life, and pregnancy in the universe

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, anthropomorphizing, artificial gestation, Cell Press, China, egg, embryo, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, fetus, human embryos, IVF, miscarriages, MIT Technology Review:, organoids, pregnancy, Spain, Stem Cell Research, unborn children, United Kingdom, United States, uterine lining, uterus, Vermont, women}

How Far Will Experiments on the Unborn Go?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics

3}

We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, black market, China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, human tissues, kidney, living kidney donations, mortuary, murder, Ngor-Okpala, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners, Umuhu, Uyghur Muslims}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, bioethics, ethics, Harvard University, human exceptionalism, Humanize, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence, moral value, Oxford University, Phi Beta Kappa, Poland, President’s Council on Bioethics, responsibilities, Robert P. George, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, UNESCO, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology}

Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

2}

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accreditation, Canadian Charter, church, comity, conscience, face coverings, freedom, freedom of worship, mosque, Municipal Powers Act, Ontario, private schools, Quebec, religion, religious freedom, religious schools, religious symbols, secularocracy, synagogue, temple, theocracy}

In Medicine and More, Canada Blazes a Trail to Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some worry about theocracies. But Canada is demonstrating that a secularocracy can be just as suppressing of comity and human freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, Current Affairs, environment, fishing, gathering, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, Michael Burrows, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, trustees, wild animals, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

5}

The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, complex systems physics, Discovery Institute, Duke University, entrepreneurs, Epistle to the Hebrews, evidence, faith and science, God the Science the Evidence, Humanize, information theory, Michel-Yves Bollore, Olivier Bonnassies, origin of life, Palomar Editions, physics, protein rarity, science writers, thermodynamics}

Science’s “Great Reversal”: Olivier Bonnassies and Brian Miller Discuss Evidence for God

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

2}

What if the reality of God could be demonstrated scientifically? What evidence would it take? What would be the consequence? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 18, 2025

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Anna Krylov, bias, DEI, editors, ideology, integrity, Joe Biden, journals, Kamala Harris, litmus tests, medicine, Nature (journal), Nature Portfolio, Nature Reviews Psychology, objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, propaganda, reform, skepticism, standards, The Free Press, universalism}

With Political Litmus Tests, Science Journals Go Anti-Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 18, 2025

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

5}

If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead, perhaps these journals can regain the high regard in which they were once held. I certainly hope so. Read More ›