Meeting Doctor Doom(Saving the Earth with Ebola)

The Citizen Scientist (via the Drudge Report) ^

[stm]

"We're no better than bacteria!"

I guess he should know. Perhaps he should have a big named after him......Diplococcus Idioticae

[stm]

oops, should be "bug" not "big", my bad!

[91B]

I saw another thread about this douchebag just a few minutes ago. Right now there is a documentary on the History channel about the plague and its horrors. This tool just reflects the dead, black, nihilist soul of the left. They no longer believe in anything, so they want to burn down the whole world.

[operation clinton cleanup]

At age 13, he was seriously injured in a Bazooka blast in the front yard of his childhood home in Yreka, California.

Damn! His parents should have kept their Bazooka's locked up in a safe place.

[PatrickHenry]

Don't know how you all will feel about this one - could spark some interesting conversation (your discretion).

I don't see any reason to ping the list for an obvious nutcase.

[SaltyJoe]

Do rights come before responsibilities, or do they generally go hand in hand?

He and his fallen brethren might be using livestock to spread the modified strain. If he has the will to blurt out his desire to see the world murdered, he may have already taken steps (or know of those who have) to kill the human race.

Might be worth checking. Last I heard, one isn't allowed to scream "FIRE" in a movie theater. What would happen to a nuclear sub skipper if he spoke to midshipmen/cadets about launching a nuke strike just to 'hurry it up and get it over with'? Wasn't there a multi-starred Admiral who was fired for quipping that the 3 service men who raped a young Japanese girl 'should have bought hookers' instead?

What happens if a jet-hopping traveler jokes about having a bomb in his shoes before going through the metal detector?

And why would a university pay such a man that wants 90% of the students (who pay the university's tuition) to be murdered?

[TaxRelief]

From the meetings minutes of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, this is too good not to share:

RESOLUTION ON PIANKAFICATION.--WHEREAS Eric R. Pianka survived a potentially deadly childhood experience, and

• WHEREAS Eric has been a life member of the ASIH since the time he was in high school, thereby saving himself from a lifetime of annual dues, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric has had a profound influence on the science of herpetology-particularly in the area of desert lizard ecology, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric published his first scientific paper in Herpetologica, to be followed by over 100 more in various journals, and,
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric's years in the field have set the standard both for natural history and for ecological studies, resulting in publications that have lain the foundation for research programs that will undoubtedly outlive even his bison farm, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric authored the book "Evolutionary Ecology", now in its 6th edition and soon to be available in 8 languages, and
  
  
• WHEREAS along with Eric's many books and publications, his web site, including his 10 commandments, open letter to prospective graduate students, and "obituary," should become mandatory reading for all graduate students, and
  
  
• WHEREAS we who are getting on in years particularly like the one about honoring your predecessors, and
  
  
• WHEREAS the title of Eric's popular autobiography, The Lizard Man Speak s, was changed to mollify the publishers; the result being that the herpetological community is precluded from the opportunity to cite The Yank Down Under , a title akin to that of one featuring well-known stars belonging to the adult-film industry, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric was honored at these meetings as Distinguished Herpetologist, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Eric delivered an emotional and heart-felt keynote address to the JMIH, and
  
  
• WHEREAS Rick Shine has coined the term "piankification" to describe Dr. Pianka's vast and immeasurable influence on several fields of evolutionary ecology
  
  
• THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the JMIH submit a petition to Merriam-Webster for the inclusion of the word piankification (verb, piankafy), and
  
  
• BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this term be widely adopted members and used widely in publications.

Key:
ASIH = American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
JMIH = Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Source

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It is also not a particularly good candidate for airborne transmission. It appears the primary disease transmision of Ebola HF is contact with blood or body fluids of an infected people. In the Sudan, where the virus originated, entire families would be wiped out in trying to care for one infected member. Nosocomial transmission (in a hospital) is also a frequent origin for ebola outbreaks. Most of the time, care-givers in African hospitals will not take any self-protective measures (mask, gloves, gowns, etc) to prevent the spread of the disease.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

At age 13, he was seriously injured in a Bazooka blast in the front yard of his childhood home in Yreka, California.

Damn! His parents should have kept their Bazooka's locked up in a safe place.

Yeah, but who knew bubble gum could be that dangerous?

[demoRat watcher]

Humanicentrism Ping List A rare ping to a special group of scientists.

[RightWhale]

Our overlords, Kissinger, Rockefellers, etc., say 200 million is the best population. This fellow is far too soft to be of that caste.

[King Prout]

you rang? what?

[TFFKAMM]

As I've pointed out before about nihilists like this: not even the worst mass-killers of history (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc.) even DREAMED of staging ten-digit omnicides. And as a poster above noted, these cretins ALWAYS seem to assume that they and the other *Enlightened Ones* will be part of the lucky 10% that survives (although how they'd deal with the biological and physical wreckage of human civilization's infrastructure never seems to be mentioned.)

If you want a parallel from fiction, I can think of none better than H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale, "The Call of Cthulhu," where a cult was trying to wipe most of humanity off the planet and create a sort of anti-Eden where they would become "free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy."

(And why is it that these kill-everyone-now types -- Peter Singer is another -- always look and dress like street winos?)

[PatrickHenry]

Please remove me from that ping list.

[VadeRetro]

April Fool's was yesterday.

[Babu]

almost every scientist, professor and college student present stood to their feet and vigorously applauded the man who had enthusiastically endorsed the elimination of 90 percent of the human population. Some even cheered. Dozens then mobbed the professor at the lectern to extend greetings and ask questions.

Yet five hours later, the distinguished leaders of the Texas Academy of Science presented Pianka with a plaque in recognition of his being named 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. When the banquet hall filled with more than 400 people responded with enthusiastic applause, I walked out in protest.

It's not surprising that we have this whack job spouting this evil drivel at a university, but the above reaction by so very many of his colleagues is what is most chilling to me!

[Senator Bedfellow]

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the fools just up and disappear.

[mdmathis6]

Ebola is 90 per cent lethal in areas where medical services are primitive. Early massive hydration,shock resuscitation and BP pressure support, kidney dialysis support and steroid use would decrease mortality rates considerably...the key, just like in SARS and Bird Flu is to control the immune system to keep it from going into permanent lock-up (which causes the macrophages to literally totally destroy the body while in the process of trying to eliminate the viral invader).

Now one just doesn't find such advanced support in the Congo, or many parts of Asia, or the rainforests of South America!

I understand that those who have survived the disease are permanently immune from it!

[furball4paws]

I don't know what a "Humanicentrism" ping list is, but I don't want to be on the list. Please remove. Thank You.

[Dumb_Ox]

"Homocentrism" or "Humanicentrism" are barbarisms. "Anthropocentric" is generally the preferred term, but I thought it was prominent only in the Animal Rights movement, which labels anthropocentrism with another barbarism, "speciesist."

Regardless, the movement is full of inhumanist misanthropy. Give me that old-time Humanism.