Friday Funny: Paul Ehrlich Discredits the Peer Review Process

From Watts Up With That?

Ever since CBS trotted out serial doomster Ehrlich to promote his never ending negative knowledge this week, we’ve heard a lot of pushbacks.

For example, this post yesterday from Anthony

Well on Tuesday it was all just too much for the old malthusian and he lashed out at all those right wingers.

60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones

— Paul R. Ehrlich (@PaulREhrlich) January 3, 2023

Twitter was not kind to nonagenarian face of environmental chicken littleism. Here are some examples.

Paul Ehrlich goes full Fauci on his critics: "I am the science!" 🙄 https://t.co/AXbelQZm6W

— Mike Bastasch (@MikeBastasch) January 4, 2023

Paul Ehrlich has been wrong about almost everything

In 1970, he predicted the world would utterly break down before 1985. It would be unable to support humanity

Didn't happen

That's not a mistake, Ehrlich

It is called being fundamentally wronghttps://t.co/PGec0ZiJXI https://t.co/NeAyShfv28 pic.twitter.com/CG7T2JOfIl

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 5, 2023

It must be hard to admit how much damage was caused. https://t.co/ALnR4S4qek

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 5, 2023

Writing from a country that he said would probably not exist by now, I find his appeal to peer review and honours pitiful.

"In the Seventies, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programmes embarked upon now."

How is that not a basic error? https://t.co/FMuMt6N0Bx

— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) January 5, 2023

It is quite entertaining to read the quote tweets directly. I highly recommend it.

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr also joined in the response.

Originally tweeted by Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) on January 5, 2023.

This 1971 review of Ehrlich and Ehrlich by Roger Revelle titled, “Paul Ehrlich: New High Priest of Ecocatastrophe” is really something

https://doi.org/10.2307/2134034

The poor should stay poor, to allow more for us
Hence the concept of “never-to-be-developed countries”

I had no idea Revelle was so spicy:

“No one can blame the Ehrlichs, living within a few miles of the Bay Shore Highway between San Francisco and San Jose, for thinking that the four-fold growth of California’s population since 1930 is a disaster”

Compulsory abortion, sure, why not

Originally tweeted by Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) on January 5, 2023.

I’ll end this medley with a video clip demonstrating what a disgusting, anti-human, anti-freedom, totalitarian statist, Ehrlich always has been. It’s illustrative that he begins by saying he’s not in favor of government interference then goes on to describe all the ways he wants government to interfere.

"You oughta make the FCC see to it that large families are always treated in a negative light on television."

"the government will simply tell you how many children you can have and throw you in jail if you have too many"

CBS darling Paul Ehrlich in 1970pic.twitter.com/tRtT0yTGI1

— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 4, 2023