Communications Department
202.626.8825
mediarelations@nrlc.org
This discredited shibboleth won't die By Marcus Roberts One of the ideas that this blog is trying to combat is the doom-mongering of those preaching the overpopulation panic. Although it has died down a fair bit since Paul Ehrlich published "The Population Bomb" in...
By Matthew Balan On Monday's Today, NBC's Savannah Guthrie and Tom Hanks boosted the supposed crisis of overpopulation, which is part of the plot of the actor's new movie, Inferno. Guthrie touted "Malthusian theory" during the interview. Hanks revealed that a former...
By Wesley J. Smith Scientific American has actually published a column that supports a proper morality. And by Michael Shermer, no less! Shermer identifies Malthusianism as one of the most destructive forces ever to infect science. From, “Why Malthus is Still Wrong”:...
A fascinating history in old news report footage. By Shannon Roberts Editor’s note. The New York Times describes the mission of its “learning network” blog as “offer[ing] rich and imaginative materials for teaching and learning using New York Times content. Every...
By Steven Mosher and Anne Morse My guess is that you, gentle reader, will be as astonished as we were by the top-of-the-website New York Times article discrediting the population alarmism of the past fifty years. In "The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion" the...
By Wesley J. Smith Anti-humanists claim repeatedly that teeming humanity will soon overwhelm all other life on the planet, requiring immediate steps to dramatically depopulate. In this view, we are a scourge, the AIDS afflicting Gaia. Indeed, the plot of a recent...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher and currently...
By Dave Andrusko Before we finish our look at Steven Mosher’s opening address to the 42nd annual National Right to Life Convention, it’s important to remember you can purchase a CD or MP3 of this, and every other general session and workshop from the 2012 convention....
By Dave Andrusko As a way of introducing you to some of the great presentations at the 2012 National Right to Life convention, National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias is using this week so share excerpts from Steven Mosher’s opening...
By Dave Andrusko We are at the mid-week point of a five-part series based on the remarks delivered at the opening session of the 2012 National Right to Life Convention by Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute. He addressed the myth of...