Dr. Eric R. Pianka and Ebola

Scott notes the desire of Dr. Eric R. Pianka to wipe out 90% of the human species by the (deliberate?) spreading of the Ebola virus.

The full story is here at The Citizen Scientist.

Here’s what worries me about this. No, not the resources running out, humanity the pollution, polluting Gaia who will wreak her rewenge. No.

He’s nicked the bloody idea from a Tom Clancy novel, Rainbow Six.

I mean, yes, fine, Tom Clancy’s a perfectly decent airport read and of course the book sold squillions. But really, saving the planet by recycling a decade old thriller?

What next? Greenpeace building a time machine to save the whales?

10 responses

  1. Dan Collins Avatar
    Dan Collins

    >What next? Greenpeace building a time machine to save the whales?< Was that a Star Trek movie? There was another one, too with Kirk's son, who was a kind of intergalactic Greenpeace guy, and he died. Tim adds: Correctamundo!

  2. The Remittance Man Avatar
    The Remittance Man

    Damn!I hought Rainbow Six was one of his factual ones.

  3. Are you sure that’s not a ‘republican war on science’ type smear?

  4. To paraphrase Marx:

    History repeats itself; first as Tom Clancy novel, then as farce.

  5. It reminded me a bit of Twelve Monkeys as well (the virus bit, not the time travelling bit, obviously)

  6. Nothing new here. Yet another pathological narcissist boldly and bravely promoting another killing field to make the world a better place. Pfeh.

  7. It wasn’t a time machine – it was a dangerous slingshot around the sun in a captured Klingon ship, using the additional momentum gained from the sun’s gravitational field to break warp 9, thus exceeding the speed of light and travelling back through time. If I recall correctly…
    *ahem*

  8. Dan Collins Avatar
    Dan Collins

    Nosemonkey–
    Thanks, but aren’t all those Star Trek movies themselves “time machines”?

  9. Oi! I never saw that particular Star Trek, and was looking forward to it, and now you’ve all gone and spoiled it for me.
    Just for that, I’ll tell you who the Americans are bombing after Iran. It’s Nigeria. So there.

  10. Jesse Avatar
    Jesse

    Lets start with this peice of dog shi*….saying we need to kill eyeryone anyone that believes that needs to go first

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