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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.)

This from a blog discussing the speech at the meeting

http://brenmccnnll.blogspot.com/2006/03/dr.html

Dr. Pianka's talk at the TAS meeting was mostly of the problems humans are causing as we rapidly proliferate around the globe. While what he had to say is way too vast to remember it all, moreover to relay it here in this blog, the bulk of his talk was that he's waiting for the virus that will eventually arise and kill off 90% of human population. In fact, his hope, if you can call it that, is that the ebola virus which attacks humans currently (but only through blood transmission) will mutate with the ebola virus that attacks monkeys airborne to create an airborne ebola virus that attacks humans. He's a radical thinker, that one! I mean, he's basically advocating for the death of all but 10% of the current population!

Worse, the blogger then states

And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right.

Humans are far too populous. We've used up our resources, and we're destroying the Earth at an accelerated pace. The more technology we create, the more damage we're capable of doing

The blogger, and many of this guys students are now full converts!

Mims is one of the fathers of personal computing.

He was co-founder of MITS, which produced the Altair 8800 -- the first personal computer on the market, back in 1975.

Interesting sidenote: Bill Gates got his start by writing his BASIC interpreter for the Altair. So, if not for Mims, there would quite likely not have been a Microsoft!

Forest Mims is a very well-known, very credible individual. (I remember reading his stuff Way Back When, in the '60s, when I was a budding young electronics hobbyist.)