Here is exhibit A:
The Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in 1970's and 1980s due to overpopulation and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. The book also popularized the previously coined term, population bomb.
Early editions of The Population Bomb began with the statement:
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.
Yes, I never read The Population Bomb when it was published, because I didn’t want to give it the time of day, let alone add to the author’s royalties.
But you didn’t have to. The News Media were all over it for years, trying to make everyone feel bad for being human and simply living, let alone having children.
What a sad business that was.
And the snake oil salesmen who pushed it have a lot to answer for. A hundred pornographic novels would do less harm than a book like that. Going out with a gun and committing mass murder would do less harm than that.