This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
The Washington Post is on to me with an article "The Bogus Science of Secondhand Smoke." Well, it was fun while it lasted. Oh, wait: Not my Secondhand Smoke. Secondhand smoke, secondhand smoke. Never mind.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 1:47 PM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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(((beats on Wesley)))
Behave!
And yeah, Dear Abby is going to have fun with this one...
I always wondered, does the name Secondhand Smoke have any significance?
There is a connection between smoking and suicide, in spite of what the old "Alive, with Pleasure!" Newport ads said. So, is Secondhand Smoke assisted suicide?
Secondhand Smoke is something I always intended to call a regular column, if I ever had the chance to write one. It is a bit of self depcrecatory humor. I also think it is somewhat funny. So, when I started to consider doing a web log, I noticed people named them. Rather than calling it something stuffy-which I am not--I called it Secondhand Smoke. I like it.
Ways a reader (like me) can interpret the name "Secondhand Smoke" :
1) Secondhand smoke, i.e. the smoke vapors that non-smokers end up inhaling around smokers.
2) Smoke = smoke and mirrors, so to speak (something that's not substantial used to make people believe it's something substantial), so "secondhand smoke" would be getting information secondhand that's all "smoke and mirrors."
3) An ironic twist on Number 2 up there - Wesley is a "secondhand" source but he links to original sources so that everyone who reads his blog can read them, and his "smoke" or deflection really *is* substantial, but his detractors will try to convince everyone there is no substance to his claims.
I came to the blog thinking that it was #3 there. Anybody else see any intriguing connotations on the name of this blog?
How about: "Wesley is full of hot air."
Dude, you're Italian. That's the standard def of "full of hot air" right there, or I've been going to the wrong family reunions.
Correction: Half Italian. Meaning I'm only somewhat full of hot air.
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