Scientists cheer holocaust wish (professor who wants 90% of human race exterminated by ebola)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/2/06 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

What would happen if a world-renowned scientist and evolutionary ecologist told hundreds of his colleagues that 90 percent of the human race needed to be wiped out by exposure to ebola or some other deadly virus?

Apparently, according to a scientist who claims to have witnessed such a remarkable event one month ago, the fiend would get a standing ovation and an award.

Forrest Mims III

That's the story being told by Forrest Mims III, a member of the Texas Academy of Science, chairman of its environmental science section and editor of the Citizen Scientist.

The speech Mims heard was delivered by Eric R. Pianka, a lizard expert from the University of Texas. It is recounted in detail in the latest issue of the Citizen Scientist.

"We're no better than bacteria," Mims quoted Pianka as saying in his condemnation of the human race, which, he claimed, is overpopulating the Earth.

The only way to save the planet for the rest of the species is to reduce the human population to 10 percent of its current number.

Eric R. Pianka

"He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," writes Mims. "War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets. AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs."

Mims notes that when Pianka finished his remarks, the audience of fellow scientists and students burst out in sustained applause.

During a question-and-answer sessions, the audience laughed approvingly when Pianka offered the bird flu as another vehicle toward achieving his goal. They also chuckled when he suggested it was time to sterilize everyone on Earth.

"What kind of reception have you received as you have presented these ideas to other audiences that are not representative of us?" asked one member of the audience.

"I speak to the converted!" Pianka replied.

Mims said he spoke glowingly of the police state in China that enforces a one-child policy.

"Smarter people have fewer kids," Mims quoted Pianka as saying.

Following the question-and-answer session, Mims says "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."

Mims notes five hours later, 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," he writes.

Mims, an electronics author, has written some 60 books that have sold 7.5 million copies.

[mjp]

Eric R. Pianka, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology

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Ph. D., University of Washington, 1965
D. Sc., University of Western Australia, 1990

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[vpintheak]

This is what is brought about by these eltist scientists and communities that preach evolution only. I would bet my bottom dollar that a person who reaA person who believes in God would never even think of such garbage. But in an imoral we are just animals mindset, all sorts of rubish is spewed. I know I am not wrong.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Just curious, is there any source for this other than Mims?

[wagglebee]

Big Media keeps telling me humans may indeed by wiped out by this new Bird Flu?

They just figure they can push bird flu forever and keep the fear out there, they were very sad when Y2K collapsed and couldn't be brought back.

[Lx]

Damn, I read it a couple of times and missed a rather important piece.
Thanks.

I'd hate to see Mims be a kook.

[Bommer]

Sorry I agree! Start with scientists, then professors, then Massacusetts....

[Tribune7]

It doesn't really go into it but is Mims against this whackjob who wants to kill off 90% of the world's population?

Yup

[justshutupandtakeit]

Since this comes from a source of no reliability I doubt the even resembles the description in any way except in the fact that someone spoke about something and someone heard it.

[robertpaulsen]

Today, you can give every family of four in the world a three bedroom house on a 50-foot by 100-foot lot, with a nice front yard and room for a garden in the back, and fit the entire world population into the State of Texas with room to spare.

[wagglebee]

Click on the link and go to this nutjob's homepage, there will be little doubt in your mind.

[Publius Valerius]

Um, check me if I'm wrong, but Ebola Reston doesn't infect humans, only monkeys.

A major outbreak of Ebola Zaire strikes me as much more serious.

[cloud8]

> Why don't they practice what they preach and commit suicide?

Replacement is sufficient. It's just too crowded and too hot. Resources squandered. Rush blathers on.

[Servant of the 9]

I nominate you to offer yourself.

I already have, Google my tagline.

I do, however, have a list of people I plan on adding to the expedition.

So9

[Publius Valerius]

Rather, I should say, that it infects humans but does not make them ill.

[sgtyork]

What color is the sky on your planet?

You put the potential of an astrologic event like a meteor strike in terms of "humaneness"? Gosh, lets all vote on it. I am in favor of a humane meteor strike (LOL). By the way, I am also in favor of the Sun being turned down, it gets really hot in the summer.

[dhs12345]

And of course, he and his family are exempt.

[wagglebee]

Here's some more substantiation:

http://story.seguingazette.com/drudge.html
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio357/357evaluations.htm
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio213/why.html

[justshutupandtakeit]

The pages I visited seem to be devoid of any sociological suggestions and were all lizardly stuff.

[Chode]

Rainbow-6...

[Servant of the 9]

Today, you can give every family of four in the world a three bedroom house on a 50-foot by 100-foot lot, with a nice front yard and room for a garden in the back, and fit the entire world population into the State of Texas with room to spare.

I think for mankind to be sane, there needs to be enough wilderness to let no home be visible from another without impinging on necessary agricultural land, say a square mile per person.

This is a post industrial world. It runs on fossil fuels and smart tools, we don't need enough people to do everything the hard way like we used to.