[Don Corleone]

Margaret Sanger and her population limits types preached this crap sandwich 150 years ago too.

[smartyaz]

[Old Sarge]

Dire predictions about cancer epidemics, mass extinction, overpopulation, and more turned out to be a bust.

Not to mention tinfoilers, end-times "prophets", and assorted thorazine subjects on social media...

[Da Coyote]

Erlich has the IQ of a snail.

[Moltke]

Rachel Carson surely must have known that cancer is a disease in which the risk goes up as people age. And thanks to vaccines and new antibiotics, Americans in the 1950s were living much longer-long enough to get and die of cancer. In 1900 average life expectancy was 47, and the annual death rate was 1,700 out of 100,000 Americans. By 1960, life expectancy had risen to nearly 70 years, and the annual death rate had fallen to 950 per 100,000 people. Currently, life expectancy is more than 78 years, and the annual death rate is 790 per 100,000 people. Today, although only about 13 percent of Americans are over age 65, they account for 53 percent of new cancer diagnoses and 69 percent of cancer deaths.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I've always thought the low life expectancies in past times was due to a much higher infant mortality rate. Once you got to your teens or so you had almost just as much a chance of a long life as today. So I wonder about authors making such arguments.

[jjotto]

‘Conservatives’ are just as addicted to doom porn as leftist totalitarians.

[corlorde]

For later.

[sodpoodle]

Curiosity, observation, research and predictions are natural and extraordinary human traits. Those who ask questions and proffer answers provide an opportunity for debate and further study.

God gave us the magnificent gift of a brain and rules by which to live. When we discard either or both we suffer and he affords us reflection to do better.

God is the ultimate recycler and population redistributor.

[Nuocmam]

Although he has accumulated big $ over time, can anyone document anything Erlich has said or predicted, other than”I have to go to the bathroom or some such” that has been correct? I realize that in academic circles the “Publish or Perish” situation exists but shouldn’t what you publish have some bit of accuracy and correctness once and awhile? Even a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day! Erlich and his like don’t appear to be able to compete even with a stopped clock.