At 10:29 AM 4/19/2006, Lawrence Johnston wrote:
I don't know how many of you saw the brouhaha
about Prof. Pianka's suggestions that the world's
population is the real problen, which could
easily be taken care of if Ebola virus were sprayed around, killing 90% of US.
>http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/04/doomsday.professor.ap/index.html
@ I saw several articles posted on FR about
it. Here is one of them (with excerpted
comments) and links to 7 more below. :)
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professor says death is imminent
The Gazette-Enterprise ^ | April 2, 2006 | Jamie Mobley
Posted on 04/03/2006 6:10:22 AM EDT by GBoettner
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AUSTIN - A University of Texas professor says the
Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the
human population dead. ...." [snip]
Some comments on the article:
Hey, don't laugh, Ted Turner once said that he'd
had five kids by the time he was thirty, and
wished for the sake of the earth that he'd had
them all aborted. Gee, thanks, Dad!
14 posted on 04/03/2006 6:47:01 AM EDT by
elcid1970 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608153/posts?page=14#14
I note that he is still breathing. Had he the
courage of his convictions, he would be part of
the biomass by now and his lectures would be on
tape. I suppose he thinks he should be among the 10% who are left.
6 posted on 04/03/2006 6:20:43 AM EDT by
Adder http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608153/posts?page=6#6
I watched in amazement as a few hundred members
of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their
feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that
enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90
percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola.
The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka (Fig.
1), the University of Texas evolutionary
ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named
the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
The University of Texas Academy of Science
members elected Pianka as the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
The major portion of the Academy of Science chose
this anthropophobic man above all other candidates.
41 posted on 04/03/2006 10:20:34 AM EDT by
demoRat
watcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608153/posts?page=41#41
He is "revered" by the Texas Academy of Science
members. They elected him 2006 Distinguished Scientist.
From the article:
"He recommended airborne Ebola as an ideal
killing virus," Forrest Mims [a local resident
and scientist in attendance] said. "He showed
slides of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse and
human skulls. He joked about requiring universal
sterilization. It reminded me of a futuristic
science fiction movie with a crazed scientist planning the death of humanity."
But as confident as Mims is in his assessment, he
faces one unarguable fact: Most of Pianka's
former students are bursting with praise. Their
in-class evaluations celebrate his ideas with
words like "the most incredible class I ever had"and "Pianka is a GOD!"
What has been the Academy of Science response to all this?
"We select the DTS speaker based on his/her
academic credentials and contributions to
science. We do not mandate the subject he/she
decides to address, nor will we ever. I would
suggest that one of the purposes of any such
presentation is to stimulate discussion - which indeed it did.
When questioned further, Pianka said:
Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Roaston
and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they
could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people.
(And he got a standing ovation from his the rest
of the professors and students.)
43 posted on 04/03/2006 10:56:00 AM EDT by
demoRat
watcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608153/posts?page=43#43
*
Here are 7 more articles (out of lots more) too,
that were posted on FR regarding Pianka:
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Interested in Texas “Doomsday” Ecologist who said
Ebola the Solution to Human Overpopulation
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AUSTIN, April 6, 2006 – Ebola, a form of
hemorrhagic fever in which the internal organs of
the victim liquefy, has one of the highest rates
of fatality of any known contagious disease at
approximately 80-90% and is one of the most
contagious diseases known to medical science. It
is also high on the list of possible bio-terror
weapons of concern to international law
enforcement and military security agencies. Tom
Clancy’s thriller novel, Rainbow Six describes a
group of radical environmentalists that wants to
rid the world of people using a modified version of Ebola.All of which is...
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Prof.: 'We're Breeding Our Brains Out' (We need
to Kill More Humand to Save the Earth)
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^ | 04/04/2006 | Carl Limbacher
Texas Prof.: 'We're Breeding Our Brains Out'Talk
radio and blogs are taking aim at a University of
Texas biology professor because of a published
report suggesting he advocates death for most of
the human population as a means of saving the
Earth. However, Eric Pianka says his remarks
about his beliefs were taken out of context, that
he was just raising a warning that deadly disease
epidemics are a threat if population growth isn't
contained. "What we really need to do is start
thinking about controlling our population before
it's too late," he said Monday. "It's already too late, but...
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus//focus/f-news/1608734/posts>UT
professor criticized over comments about impending pandemic
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^ | April 4, 2006 | LIZ AUSTIN
AUSTIN - A University of Texas biology professor
has been targeted by talk radio, bloggers and
vitriolic e-mails - including a death threat -
after a published report that he advocated death
for most of the population as a means of saving
the Earth. But Eric Pianka said Monday his
remarks about what he believes is an impending
pandemic were taken out of context. "What we
really need to do is start thinking about
controlling our population before it's too late,"
he said. "It's already too late, but we're not
even thinking about it. We're just mindlessly rushing ahead breeding...
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Death Wish
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Events Online ^ | April 3, 2006 | Christopher Flickinger
If six billion humans died, the world would be a
better place. That's the message a professor from
the University of Texas is proclaiming. An
article in The Gazette-Enterprise details
Professor Eric Pianka's doomsday beliefs. "In his
estimation, 'We've grown fat, apathetic and
miserable,' all the while leaving the planet
parched. The solution? A 90 percent reduction."
Can anyone say "Thomas Malthus wannabe" (high
school flashback: Malthus was the guy who said
the earth's population would outgrow its food
supply). Pianka tells the Gazette, "[Disease]
will control the scourge of humanity. We're
looking forward to a huge collapse." The professor...
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus//focus/f-news/1608026/posts>Meeting
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Meeting Doctor Doom Forrest M. Mims III Copyright
2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. There is always
something special about science meetings. The
109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at
Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006
was especially exciting for me, because a student
and his professor presented the results of a DNA
study I suggested to them last year. How
fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium
distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and
my tree ring photographs transformed into a first
class scientific presentation that's nearly ready
to submit to a scientific journal...
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Forrest M. Mims III Copyright 2006 by Forrest M.
Mims III. Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims
told me about a speech he heard at the Texas
Academy of Science during which the speaker, a
world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the
extermination of 90 percent of the human species
in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently
at the speaker's direction, the speech was not
video taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may
be the only record of what was said. Forrest's
account of what he witnessed chilled my soul.
Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the
Academy members present gave...
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Gazette-Enterprise (Texas) ^ | April 2, 2006 | Jamie Mobley
AUSTIN A University of Texas professor says the
Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the
human population dead. “Every one of you who gets
to survive has to bury nine,” Though his
statements are admittedly bold, he’s not without
abundant advocates. But what may set this revered
biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers
is this: Humanity’s collapse is a notion he
embraces. Indeed, his words deal, very literally,
on a life-and-death scale, yet he smiles and
jokes candidly throughout the lecture.
Disseminating a message many would call morbid,
Pianka’s warnings are centered upon awareness rather than..
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^ | 04/06/2006 | Tom Pauken
The DallasBlog reported over the weekend the
story about the UT zoology professor, Eric
Pianka, who reportedly advocated in a speech at a
Texas Academy of Science meeting in early March
-- the elimination of most of the world’s
population by airborne Ebola -- What is even more
disturbing than the professor’s bizarre remarks
was the reaction of his audience, according for
Forrest Mims III, who was in attendance at the
event: "I watched in amazement as a few hundred
members of the Texas Academy of Sciences rose to
their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that...
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