Posted on 04/06/2006 5:44:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
AUSTIN, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ebola, a form of hemorrhagic fever in which the internal organs of the victim liquefy, has one of the highest rates of fatality of any known contagious disease at approximately 80-90% and is one of the most contagious diseases known to medical science. It is also high on the list of possible bio-terror weapons of concern to international law enforcement and military security agencies. Tom Clancy’s thriller novel, Rainbow Six describes a group of radical environmentalists that wants to rid the world of people using a modified version of Ebola.
All of which is why the FBI is interested in talking to Texas ecologist and herpetologist, Dr. Eric R. Pianka, who suggested at a meeting of the Texas Academy of Sciences that an airborne version of Ebola that would wipe out 90% of the human population was the solution to the human “overpopulation problem.”
This week, Pianka has been in the Texas media saying that he was not advocating bio-terrorism, but also told the Austin Statesman that he is meeting with local FBI officials in response to complaints that he is advocating biological terrorism.
“Someone has reported me as a terrorist,” he said. “They think I'm forming a cadre of people to release the airborne Ebola virus into the air. That I'm the leader and my students are the followers.”
On the day he was named by the Academy as 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist, Pianka declared that AIDS was not killing off the surplus human population fast enough. What is needed, he said, is Ebola to kill 5.8 billion of the world’s 6 billion plus humans. The speech received a prolonged standing ovation at the Academy’s annual meeting at Lamar University in Beaumont.
The Seguin Gazette quotes Pianka saying, “Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine.”
“[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity,” Pianka said in his March 3 speech. “We're looking forward to a huge collapse.” He said, “We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable,” and described the world as a “fat, human biomass.”
The syllabus for one of Pianka’s courses reads, “Although [Ebola Zaire] Kills 9 out of 10 people, outbreaks have so far been unable to become epidemics because they are currently spread only by direct physical contact with infected blood…Ebola Reston, is airborne, and it is only a matter of time until Ebola Zaire evolves the capacity to be airborne.”
The speech was first reported by popular science and computer writer, Forrest Mims III on the website of the Citizen Scientist. Mims said he was concerned that in this age of international security tensions, “fertile young minds,” might take Pianka’s assertions as suggestions.
One class evaluation for one of Pianka’s courses shows the enthusiasm with which his ideas are received by ‘fertile young minds. Two quoted by the Seguin Gazette read, “the most incredible class I ever had” and “Pianka is a GOD!”
After the talk, student blogger, Brenna McConnell, who attended the Academy talk wrote, “He’s basically advocating for the death for all but 10 percent of the current population. And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he’s right.”
To the possibility that someone would actually go with the idea, Pianka said, “Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Reston and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people.”
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Texas “Doomsday Ecologist” Calls for 90% of Humans to be Wiped out with Ebola Virus
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06040306.html
Read a transcript of Pianka’s March 3 talk:
http://www.pearceyreport.com/archives/2006/04/transcript_dr_...
After the talk, student blogger, Brenna McConnell, who attended the Academy talk wrote, “He’s basically advocating for the death for all but 10 percent of the current population. And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he’s right.”
There are probably hundreds of educators the FBI needs to be keeping an eye on!
A few years back I saw Bill Maher saying that it would be a good thing if someone infected the American cattle industry with hoof and mouth disease.
WTH is with the Left and their love of death?
He was probably just trying to boost his ratings, I don't think he is intelligent enough to understand the implications of what he was saying.
This guy sounds just like the wackos in Clancy's novel "Rainbow Six".
Why not, Bill seems to have it...
They just want to prove Darwinism.
You need to check out the wacko's website!
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html
FBI interested? Probably wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on him, but anybody who takes an intense approving interest in his nonsense ought to be watched, too.
No he has one of the worst cases of cranial rectal insertion I've ever seen.
I just don't get why they don't off themselves first and set the example.
At least Ingrid Newkirk had the courtesy of having herself neutered.
Ah...more room for my highly exceptional genes. ( -;
That's the problem. You just don't know what mush filled brain will leach on to this and act something out for the good of Gaya.
“[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity,”
Abortion must not be working fast enough for the misanthropists!!
That too? Oh man! LOL
Have a nice looooooong talk with that MOFO.
Straight from Hell itself.
Senile b@$t@rd has confused his ideology with a Tom Clancy novel, I suspect. This prof is no spring chicken, and has been in the same position for 38 years. He's ready for the rubber classroom.
He said, “We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable,” and described the world as a “fat, human biomass.”
We're not fat and apathetic. We are, as a country, preparing for the Apocalypse. God himself will give in before he can starve us into submission.
/blasphemous rant mode
I am somewhat worried. There are already some activists here and there and they aren't all Arabs.
Of course he did - he wants more people to be like him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.