‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ Establishes Age-Based Ban on Sale of Tobacco — to Adults

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 29^th 2024 at 18:54

Expect this proposal to be adopted by blue states and resisted by red — setting up black markets and sparking another front in the great American dividing.

A pit crew member  smokes a cigarette during the Indianapolis 500 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Ind., May 28, 2023.

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Too Many Climate Scientists Confuse ‘Science’ with Activism

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 23^rd 2024 at 12:20

Will climate scientists heed the warning published in Nature?

Bleached corals are seen near a bull statue in a reef in Koh Mak, Thailand, May 8, 2024

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Harvard Law to Teach Rights of Nature

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 17^th 2024 at 14:34

Complacency is the greatest political weapon the rights-of-nature radicals have.

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The Woke Gobbledygook That Passes for Erudition in Medical Journals

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 15^th 2024 at 20:11

Our most august medical journals are in grave danger of becoming woke ideological-advocacy publications.

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No, Doctors Shouldn’t Make Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 13^th 2024 at 18:32

Checks and balances and outside oversight are crucial to maintaining the dignity and rights of patients and thwarting the imposition of a technocracy.

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Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 8^th 2024 at 13:01

Granting ‘rights’ to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects.

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DeSantis Wrong to Criminalize Lab-Grown Meat

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 6^th 2024 at 09:44

The market should decide, not the government.

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Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent’ Nonsense

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 5^th 2024 at 07:04

Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings.

Oliver Emocling waters his plants on the rooftop of his family home in Malabon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 15, 2018.