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
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.)
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.