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Musk Shreds ‘Scientist’ Paul Ehrlich, Says He Should Have Zero Credibility
The Daily Caller ^ | 2 Jan 2023 | Brianna Lyman

Posted on 01/02/2023 3:12:13 PM PST by Alas Babylon!

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday shredded the perennially wrong scientist Paul Ehrlich, saying he should be given zero credibility.

Ehrlich, who has consistently failed to predict the end of the world, spoke on “60 Minutes” Sunday and said “The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”

Self-described energy expert Alex Epstein wondered on Twitter why the show featured Ehrlich, “the anti-human ecologist who has been 180 wrong for 55 years??!!”

“Ehrlich despises humanity,” Musk responded to Epstein. “Nothing he says should be given the slightest credibility.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; elon; environment; erlich; paulehrlich
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In 1968, radical Stanford professor Ehrlich wrote the Population Bomb, a book that predicted worldwide famine due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. None of his predictions ever came true.

Every day I like Elon more and more!

1 posted on 01/02/2023 3:12:13 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
How many people even know that Paul Erlich is an entomologist?
When he talks about human populations he has no more credibility than your average truck driver.
2 posted on 01/02/2023 3:18:32 PM PST by Varda
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To: Alas Babylon!

I took an easy course in college (early 1970s) called population—based on the “overpopulation” theme of that day.

It was hilariously stupid and wrong then—and now.

My joke—if two people live under socialism the country is overpopulated!


3 posted on 01/02/2023 3:22:14 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Varda
"How many people even know that Paul Erlich is an entomologist?"

I guess that's the reason Erlich has always bugged me.

4 posted on 01/02/2023 3:23:05 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ehrlich may be referring to the WEF and their Great Reset.


5 posted on 01/02/2023 3:27:41 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Musk is not stupid [yet...].


6 posted on 01/02/2023 3:28:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Alas Babylon!

But he’s so convincing for anyone that has no brain; Greta are listening?


7 posted on 01/02/2023 3:29:21 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Tell It Right

Erloch can eat 💩. 500 insects can’t be wrong.


8 posted on 01/02/2023 3:34:48 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ehrlich predictions ...

“On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that “in ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”

In a 1971 speech, he predicted that: “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.” “If I were a gambler,” Professor Ehrlich concluded before boarding an airplane, “ I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”


9 posted on 01/02/2023 3:43:50 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Varda

A butterfly expert actually. So of course he’s taken seriously as an expert on human population.


10 posted on 01/02/2023 3:45:24 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: Alas Babylon!

I didn’t see the ‘60 Minutes’ segment, but I have to almost laugh at the absurdity of their featuring Ehrlich, a guy who’s been spectacularly wrong in his prognostications for 50 years. They may as well have Kyrie Irving on to talk about his flat-earth theories.


11 posted on 01/02/2023 3:45:35 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Alas Babylon!

He was a God to his followers in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s to the dems in Congress,universities and the CIA with his mantras of too many people alive on Mother Earth.


12 posted on 01/02/2023 3:45:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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To: Alas Babylon!

Zinn. Chomsky. Ehrlich.

Evil clowns. Killer clowns.


13 posted on 01/02/2023 3:48:14 PM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Varda

Actually your average TRUCK DRIVER has more credibility than Erlich, your AVERAGE TRUCK DRIVER has more knowledge of how many tons of food and materials have to be moved in what time frames than than a BUG DOCTOR!


14 posted on 01/02/2023 3:50:00 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: Alas Babylon!

Of Course in German his name means “honest”.


15 posted on 01/02/2023 3:50:16 PM PST by JeanLM
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ehrlich...

Holmes...

Bankman-Fried....

Let’s just call it “Stanfraud”


16 posted on 01/02/2023 3:56:09 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Tell It Right

LOL, I just thought he was creepy.


17 posted on 01/02/2023 4:04:16 PM PST by Varda
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To: Alas Babylon!

Malthus. Wrong then, still wrong.


18 posted on 01/02/2023 4:04:40 PM PST by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: 5th MEB

You’ve got a point!


19 posted on 01/02/2023 4:05:05 PM PST by Varda
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To: KosmicKitty

I wonder if he ever paid off on that bet he lost to Julian Simon....oh never mind.


20 posted on 01/02/2023 4:15:22 PM PST by Cowman
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