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_...
The whole "Academy" and perhaps Lamar University should be under very close scrutiny by the FBI as well as Homeland Security officers. I see references to his "courses" in the article but no reference to an institution where they are offered. Maybe an even more widespread terror alert is in order.
Check out his website!
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html
University of Texas. Here's his website, he is certifiable!
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html
Bttt
You're absolutely right IMO. Alf, Elf...
This guy is a PROFESSOR?!?!? Where did he get this statistic? Oh, I know. It's brown and . . . never mind.
How come these POS's never put themselves on their lists?
Maybe they can help population control and just quit eating, that way they can experience the same "euphoria" that Terri Schiavo did.
I'd like to ask the "good" doctor which part of the population he falls into - the 90% dying a horrible death, or the other 10%.
Any guesses?? (Just being retorical, of course, he'd feel HE was just too "important" to die - Me, I say, lead by example)
However, don't dare suggest killing the guilty!
You can bet alumni giving has just tanked at that school.
Anybody who thinks its right to kill 90% of the people needs to not only be watched, he or she needs to be confined.
little-publicized factoid, buried in a news report about recent enviro-terrorists arrests...
The FBI considers attacks by environmentalist extremists their #2 domestic
terror threat...just after the radical Islamic terror threat.
Odd. I thought he was afflicted by hoof-in-mouth disease.
Wouldn't help to kill an innocent.
I say we let them go first. Imagine a world free of liberals. ':)
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