Author: Wesley J. Smith

^{Type
post

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Debra J. Saunders, drug abuse, drug abusers, Executive Order, feces, harm causation, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, Joshua Barocas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Market Street, medicine, mental illness, needle exchange, overdose, personal autonomy, playgrounds, public policies, safe injection sites, San Francisco, sidewalks, syringe-services programs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration, Union Square}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Bo Yang Wang, China, dead, Ezekiel Emanuel, Falon Gong, fetal farming, Fountain of Youth, Harvard Medical School, health, Immortal Dragons, Juan Ponce de León, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, uploaded, Vadim Gladyshev, well-being, Yip Tszho}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assassins, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, euphemisms, Hippocrates, Illinois, Illinois Legislature, illnesses, jurisdictions, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Ryan Routh, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

2}

We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, authoritarianism, business entities, criminal sanctions, duties, enforcers, fines, governments, House of Lords, human thriving, individuals, landscapes, legal person, Nature, nature rights, Nature Rights Tribunal, offenders, organisms, violators}

The Rise of “Green” Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 30, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

5}

This is the most draconian and potentially tyrannical “nature rights” proposal I have yet seen. Read More ›