[Kokojmudd]

Ok Dr. Doom. Since you can't eradicate 90% of the world's population today why don't you just start with yourself?

[Kozak]

[Crazieman]

Bah, you beat me!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Please! Please! Tolerance,! All opinions are worthy of respect. We have a big tent. Lots of room at the table. We must worship at the fount of his human dignity! Equal rights for all! Free speech! He is stimulating "The Debate!"

[Mercat]

12 Monkeys stuff. And I assume that he and his family and friends would be part of the 10%.

[Boxen]

What?

[oxcart]

This guy needs to get out more often...say like a nice trip to Montgomery Texas. We would love to take him on a nice H.D. ride Sunday morning.

[SIDENET]

Professor Pianka began his speech by explaining that the general public is not yet ready to hear what he was about to tell us

Not ready to hear that he wants 90% of them dead? Go figure.

[Mamzelle]

So the "scientists" stood up and applauded...

[mtbopfuyn]

Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. The camera operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of the big camera to the ceiling and slowly walked away.

This is getting more and more interesting (and frightening) by the moment. Not only is the prof a nut case who can't spell, but he's forming new nut cases every day in class.

[investigateworld]

I believe Ted Turner has made similar statements (of course if I woke up next to Jane Fonda without make up, I'd......)

[RegulatorCountry]

I knew there were people like Peter Singer in the world, but I did not know that such views had any sort of widespread currency among so-called "scientists." It sounds as if the Third Reich never died; it just morphed into "the scientific community."

These self-styled luminaries must be the first exposed to airborne Ebola, if they are to have a shred of credibility.

[mtbopfuyn]

Check out the prof's evaluations - "Everyone should be required to take this class to "spread the word.", "I worship Dr. Pianka", "I knew this would be a most interesting class the first day when Dr. Pianka downed homocentrism."

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Evaranus/evaluations.html

[Chode]

Rainbow-6...

[Graymatter]

Is this a leftover April Fool's prank? There is no video or audio record of the man's remarks?

[HangnJudge]

This guy is really weird
Has his own obit already written

Pianka spent nearly 10 years of his life living in the desert, often alone, and he liked to think of himself as a hermit and a desert rat. He spent 6 full years down under and at times, he was at one with the bushfly. He spent the last half of his life living in the Texas hill country in a "shack on Flat Creek," where he became known as "Tatonka Pianka."

At age 13, he was seriously injured in a Bazooka blast in the front yard of his childhood home in Yreka, California. His left leg became gangrenous, and he lost 10 cm of his tibia, as well as the terminal digit of the middle finger on his right hand. Pianka's childhood injury left him with a short and partially paralyzed leg, which seldom slowed him down very much. In later life, his short leg resulted in spinal scoliosis and cervical spondylosis (an S-shaped spine and a pinched brachial nerve between neck vertebrae).

During his first year in high school, Pianka was bedridden and had a home teacher who taught him english and typing.



Seems obcessed with lizards and snakes

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/obit.html

[VOA]

Everybody get out the way! We're blocking the holy environmentalists
enjoyment of their planet!

[Graymatter]

There's a lot of info on Eric Pianka at these two pages:

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio213/why.html

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/obit.html

He is not dead yet and it's his page, giving his email address. I see nothing, however, to indicate that he endorses the deliberate killing of humans by ebola or anything else. One of the pages does mention ebola and its killing efficiency.

[HangnJudge]

This from a blog discussing the speech at the meeting

http://brenmccnnll.blogspot.com/2006/03/dr.html

Dr. Pianka's talk at the TAS meeting was mostly of the problems humans are causing as we rapidly proliferate around the globe. While what he had to say is way too vast to remember it all, moreover to relay it here in this blog, the bulk of his talk was that he's waiting for the virus that will eventually arise and kill off 90% of human population. In fact, his hope, if you can call it that, is that the ebola virus which attacks humans currently (but only through blood transmission) will mutate with the ebola virus that attacks monkeys airborne to create an airborne ebola virus that attacks humans. He's a radical thinker, that one! I mean, he's basically advocating for the death of all but 10% of the current population!

Worse, the blogger then states

And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right.

Humans are far too populous. We've used up our resources, and we're destroying the Earth at an accelerated pace. The more technology we create, the more damage we're capable of doing

The blogger, and many of this guys students are now full converts!

[Quark2005]

Mims points out that overpopulation is devastating the planet. This is quite definitely true in many Third World nations. What he fails to mention is that the economic development brought by capitalism is the only known cure for the plight of overpopulation. To look for countries that truly devastate the environment of the earth, one need look no further than the many underdeveloped dictatorships and Communist regimes of the present world.

[kittymyrib]

If Hitler had been a university professor, he could have made this speech about the Jews. And he would, no doubt, have had the standing ovation from his peers, just as this scientific fascist did. Just think what the world will be like when his students take over academia and government. I hope they start by eliminating Pianka first, because he is the most "useless eater" of all. It certainly galls this Texas taxpayer to know that we are paying his salary and that of the other loud Marxist, Jensen, at UT-Austin.