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Science ‘czar’ denies extreme views

Views he earlier seemed to espouse in the rather alarmist book Ecoscience which he co-authored.

‘Don’t read that book,’ he says in his confirmation hearings, or at least, ‘don’t read my views into it’ (though, there they are).

The office of President Obama’s “science czar” John Holdren has responded to concerns Holdren co-authored a book which allegedly contained comments supporting coercive population control measures. A spokesman for the department said that Holdren disavowed such policies at his confirmation hearing.

Holdren is currently Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

In 1977, he co-authored the 1,000 page book “Ecoscience” with Paul and Anne Ehrlich. The book included several descriptions of possible population control measures, including the addition of “sterilants” to the water supply to prevent human conception.

One section, titled “Population Law,” cited the radical group Zero Population Growth and said “it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

And look who’s going to make those determinations and advise the president on that.

By the way….there’s this other issue of all these czars.



 
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