Paul Erlich bombed ;-)
You guys are forgetting that the Left honors, reveres and protects failure.
The whole philosophy of the Left is that failure does not exist. That failure (that does not exist) is the fault of the rich oppressors, that those that fail are to be as respected as those that succeed.
In the eyes of the Left Erlich is a great man because he is a failed scientist (as long as he upholds Leftist ideals that is).