Dr. Doom

Given the hullaballoo over global warming as of late, I have been tempted to think that the Nostradamus class of scientists had their hands full decrying the world's imminent depopulation of glaciers. Boy, was I wrong.

Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner.

That's right. That same speaker went on to win a prestigious award, hours after recommending that we immediately begin killing off as much of the human population of the world as possible, employing airborne Ebola.

I'm not entirely sure if this ecologist has read The Hot Zone, but I have an unusually vivid memory of the description of death by Ebola. In the opening sections of the book, a man infected via monkey bite suffers terrifying pain, including a moment when his abdominal lining tears. Witnesses described the sound to be similar to a sheet being torn down the middle.

You absolutely must click on the link above to get a full description of this sadistic professor's ideas and the adulatory reaction his words received...no less than a standing ovation.