Scientist Allegedly Advocates Eliminating Most of Human Race

This story is from yesterday's WorldNetDaily, It's an unconfirmed story "being told by Forrest Mims III, a member of the Texas Academy of Science, chairman of its environmental science section and editor of the Citizen Scientist."

Mims recounted a speech he witnessed, which was given by Eric R. Pianka, a lizard expert from the University of Texas, apparently before the Texas Academy of Science.

"We're no better than bacteria," Mims quoted Pianka as saying in his condemnation of the human race, which, he claimed, is overpopulating the Earth.

The only way to save the planet for the rest of the species is to reduce the human population to 10 percent of its current number.

"His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population [according to Mims] is airborne Ebola (Ebola reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs."

Again, I want to point out that this story is one man's uncorroborated account of a speech he witnessed. If it's true, it confirms the worst about the hard-core environmentalists--that they value other species over mankind, that they don't seem to be moved by human suffering.

Would Pianka allow his preferred Ebola virus to do its lethal work unsupervised? Or, would he expect his fellow scientists and himself to choose the 10% of the population to be vaccinated (if a vaccine exists) and spared the ravages of the disease? People like this (if it's true) are worse than Hitler.

Mims notes five hours later, the Texas Academy of Science presented Pianka with a plaque in recognition of his being named 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.