Science Czar: John Holdren

John Holdren was the Teresa and John Heinz professor at environmental policy at the Kennedy school of government at Harvard University. Coauthored a book in 1977 on population control called Eco science. He wrote it with Ann and Paul Ehrlich who wrote- Eco science Quote from book: Paul Ehlich, Holdren's buddy said, "I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. He said that in 1969." In 1970 Ehlich said, "in ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of the coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." This is who Holdren's friends are! So let's see what has our new science czar said in his scientific past. Well, of course, it seems that the big scientific consensus back in the Seventies was that overpopulation was going to destroy the Earth. He said, "Adding a sterility drug to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control." Oh my, back then it wouls seem to horrify??? I'm horrified now! He has encouraged the idea of the government adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods."

Don't believe it? Well there are companies who have been developing this exact science. One is company is Epicyte. It's a biotech company that was putting sterilization into food. Read it for yourself, (Scientists Create GM Corn Which Prevents Human Conception, Robin McKie, Science Editor, The Observer -- London, September 9, 2001) This idea was for the corn-eating man to unknowingly become sterile because the drug implanted in the corn would attack the sperm cells. And so it would be birth control through food. Holdren says, "To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements. It must be uniformly effective." And you can't kill off one race of people and not another. Wouldn't want to inadvertently sterilize the pigs or other animals that eat corn, right? "Despite widely varying doses received by individuals and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals, it also must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects and it must not affect members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock." Okay, so we can control population by making men sterile. That's the idea! Seems to me that if we did that, not only would the problem of food storages be solved but I guess man would kill off themselves.

Let's continue with more of our Science Czar's brilliance. "Of course, a government might require only implantation of a contraceptive capsule." Well, that is harmless and many women have opted to do this, right? But here is where it really get's sorta Twilght-zone, Brave-New-World-like. The government can require the implantation of some sort of a capsule in you as a contraceptive, but you can decide to have it medically removed at your own expense. (which would be too expensive for most people) However, his plan is to have it mandatory that the gov't put it back in after having a baby. Here's another quote from our new science czar: "Responsible parenthood ought to be encouraged and illegitimate child bearing should be strongly discouraged. One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption, especially those born to minors who generally are not capable of caring properly for a child alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have an abortion perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption depending on the society." Well, there you have a little taste of the future. For me, this Czar gets a repeated thumbs down. Watch out, America! The brave new world is at hand! (time 7:47am)