April 3, 2006  – A popular science and computer writer and editor of the Citizen Scientist, Forrest M. Mims III, reports that he was present at a speech at the Texas Academy of Sciences when a respected evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert called for 90% of the world's human population to be wiped out to save the environment. Mims reports that at the 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont in early March, Dr. Eric R. Pianka received a prolonged standing ovation when he said that air-borne Ebola virus should be released in order to control world population. Hours after Pianka had advocated the deliberate killing of 5 billion people, the Texas Academy named him the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. The Citizen Scientist reports that to date, the Academy has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the speaker's remarks.   more at url