Reply #11: Is this "ancient spam" day at DU?

[Bridget Burke]

This tripe was debunked months ago.

Forrest Mims is the "horrified observer" who started the story. From Wikipedia: Pianka has stated that Mims took his statements out of context and that Pianka was stating what would happen from biological principles alone if present human population trends continue, and that he was not in any way advocating for it to happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims

Dr Pianka is known as a herpetologist & an evolutionary ecologist.

Mims, with a BA in English from Texas A&M, has written many books for Radio shack & did good work as an amateur scientist. However, the Life Sciences are not his strong point. He's a fellow of the Discovery Institute--which preaches tort reform, deregulation of everything & intelligent design.

www.discovery.org/