Holy crap!!!
From Wesly Smith, this morning I'm reading a story about - get this! - a scientist at UT Arlington who gave a "Doomsday Talk" at the 2006 Texas Academy of Science (I've volunteered for this organization when I was in school in San Antonio) conference.
What was so big about this talk? Well... He espoused the idea that mankind is currently bad for the environment, and that ~90% of the population should be disposed of, hopefully by an airborn Ebola-variant.
So what? Yeah, there are a few nutjobs that would be excited by the prospect of 5 billion people dying a most agonizing death. I guess the kicker is that this scientist received a standing ovation after his talk, and then five hours later received the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist award from the Academy.
If you're worried about fundamentalist takeovers and the like, the real danger is in fundamentalist positivists/naturalists (of which a lot of academic scientists are). They're the fuckers that think all of us are no more important than the bug they squashed on their way to work, or a paramecium in a swamp. If they ever manage to execute some kind of power-grab, who knows what would happen, what works they would wreak in the name of science and progress?
What was so big about this talk? Well... He espoused the idea that mankind is currently bad for the environment, and that ~90% of the population should be disposed of, hopefully by an airborn Ebola-variant.
So what? Yeah, there are a few nutjobs that would be excited by the prospect of 5 billion people dying a most agonizing death. I guess the kicker is that this scientist received a standing ovation after his talk, and then five hours later received the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist award from the Academy.
If you're worried about fundamentalist takeovers and the like, the real danger is in fundamentalist positivists/naturalists (of which a lot of academic scientists are). They're the fuckers that think all of us are no more important than the bug they squashed on their way to work, or a paramecium in a swamp. If they ever manage to execute some kind of power-grab, who knows what would happen, what works they would wreak in the name of science and progress?
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