Ehrlich wasn’t just wrong but horribly wrong, and with disastrous consequences. He is one of history’s great villains. But to hear the Times describe him at his passing, you would think he was both brilliant and mostly right.
Instead of portraying him accurately as a loon and a miserable scaremonger — which he certainly was — we are simply told that he faced some criticism over the years from “conservatives and academic rivals.”
At what point is mercy toward cranks cruelty to the public? The media have not been this forgiving since Anthony Fauci rode off into the sunset with his $400,000-a-year taxpayer-funded pension.
That episode of media “mercy” was arguably worse than what we’re seeing now for Ehrlich. Unlike the supposed expert on overpopulation, Fauci wasn’t merely wrong about key aspects of his supposed field of expertise — from the effectiveness of masks to those completely arbitrary and nonscientific social distancing rules. It also seems clear that he outright lied about many things, including the extent to which the U.S. was funding gain-of-function virus research in the Chinese city where the first COVID cases were identified.
Yet the media’s treatment of Fauci hasn’t been to challenge authority, but to discourage uncomfortable questions. Those who persisted in asking the obvious risked being labeled racists or fringe conspiracy theorists by our nation’s most prestigious newspapers, or even being censored by the Biden Justice Department. To this day, our esteemed news media treats this effort to silence you as a good and noble thing.
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