[Jim Noble]

Benjamin Kean started the Tropical Medicine course every year at Cornell University Medical College by walking out onto the stage in the dark, with his hands behind his back.

The spotlight hit him as he ascended the podium.

"Two books in this century have killed 100 million people. The first, you know (brings out Mein Kampf in his left hand), the second may surprise you" (brings out Silent Spring in his right hand).

An amazing teacher, and an amazing man. I was very lucky to know him.

[21twelve]

iirc, about 1 million people, mostly children, are STILL dying every YEAR due to malaria and other mosiquito borne diesease.

Bill Gates has to get with it on the donations of insect nets over the beds.

[Grimmy]

“Two books in this century have killed 100 million people. The first, you know (brings out Mein Kampf in his left hand), the second may surprise you” (brings out Silent Spring in his right hand).

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It’s good he shocked his audience, but he should have been pushing a book cart because the collected works of communists have killed as many or more than both the above together.