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

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[Doctor Stochastic]

The first link is to Mims again.

The second link is broken.

The third link is to a page that does not advocate killing 90% of people.

So, until further results are in; this is still Mims's claims. (He may be right, but I would like the hear the prof's actualy words; not what Mims wants us to think the prof said.)

[justshutupandtakeit]

He is discussing the methods of nature in reducing large populations not suggesting that there be an extermination by other men.

It is the results of observing biological processes without considering that mankind is more than just a biological process.

[saganite]

Oookay. Good luck with that.

[Coolidge]

Isn't this the plot of a Tom Clancy book?

[kittymyrib]

We know Forrest Mims personally. He is an unconventional genius and iconoclast. He is extremely principled and truthful to a fault. You can trust this account implicitly. It will be humorous to see how the insane professor and the UT regents try to defend the indefensible once again.

[dhs12345]

It's called Liberal/envirowacko "fun talk." They really don't mean it.

It would be fun to challenge them to throw their family off of a cliff and jump off of it themselves. I'd challenge them to drive off of a cliff but they probably don't own a car.

[Brilliant]

"We're no better than bacteria," Mims quoted Pianka as saying....



Well, considering his audience, he might be right.

[pepperdog]

"Just to see if he's part of the solution or part of the problem."

The fact that he's alive proves he is part of what he defines as a problem. Strange how these folks never volunteer to quit life in an effort to save the earth. It's just really hard to find committed environmentalists these days isn't it?

[Swiss]

The guy isn't much of a scientist. Ebola would be the perfect killer but so far the death rate declines very quickly as it spreads.There has never been in the history of mankind a wide spread epidemic at the death rate of 90%. While we only know of recorded history it is doubtful that hunter gather tribes had the contact with each other or the population density to support a 90% worldwide death rate.

Smallpox at about 1/4 of certain populations and the plague at about 1/2 is much more efficient killers than the Bird Flu. Flu's epidemics have only killed up to 5% of the general population, even if the worst predictions came true it would only be 20% death rate.

Proves to me that "experts" isn't always correct. Genetic Engineering might create a world wide epidemic of 90% if an radical environmentalist group had the right technology and plan and used several different deadly viruses.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"Family

Forrest & Minnie, Eric & Jane, Micheal & Vicki and Sarah. "

He has 6 kids himself but thinks everyone else's should die?

He would have fit in nicely in 1940's Germany.

[noblejones]

>>
That probably goes too far, but a planet with only 1 billion people, like it was in 1900 would be a lot more comfortable.
<<

I'll get to work on taht tonight.

[Constantine XIII]

Larry Niven was a visionary.

[Larry Lucido]

Depends which billion you end up with, who's in charge and how they are distributed.

Also, more people permit economies of scale that allow developments that would be unfeasible or impossible with fewer end users. You'd eventually have had personal computers and an internet, but it would have taken longer. A lot, lot longer. But, hey, the pony express worked just fine, and dentistry wasn't all that much more painful than today, right?

[indthkr]

"90 percent of the human race needed to be wiped out by exposure to ebola"

Actually, this guy's scheme sounds a lot like the plot-line in that movie, 12-Monkeys (Willis, Pitt, etc).

[editor-surveyor]

"We don't have the professor's name."

Yes we do, it's Pianka.

[dhs12345]

That could be. But dontcha think that some envirowackos wouldn't be sad if half the human population were gone tomorrow.

At minimum, they'd like the U.S. to revert back to a preindustrial society, with all of us living in teepees without electricity, where the child mortality rate is at 40% and life expectancy of 35 years. Where our impact on the environment is nil and even beneficial since animals could feed on our remains after we die after our miserable lives.

[jennyp]

"We're no better than bacteria," Mims quoted Pianka as saying in his condemnation of the human race

Evolution ping!

The-Tragedy-Of-Applied-Logical-Fallacies PING!

[Servant of the 9]

Also, more people permit economies of scale that allow developments that would be unfeasible or impossible with fewer end users. You'd eventually have had personal computers and an internet, but it would have taken longer. A lot, lot longer. But, hey, the pony express worked just fine, and dentistry wasn't all that much more painful than today, right?

Economies of scale was a part of the old industrial system, like big cities.
Today, with CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping what is available are products as individualized as under the old craftsman system at industrialized prices.

Your thesis is perfect for the last millennium.

So9

[Alouette]

This has to be an April Fools hoax.

[Tribune7]

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

Why?