For the past 25 years agricultural economist Lester R. Brown, founder and president of the Worldwatch Institute, has been issuing global “report cards” on the Earth’s physical and environmental health. The planet always flunks. The present article will examine Mr. Brown’s dire claims regarding the

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Logic and Math Becoming Extinct? The Washington Time’s March 30, 1990 “Science/Health ” section, in an article headlined “More Species May Be Going Way of The Dinosaurs,” reported, in three consecutive sentences, that: “With an estimated 10 million species of

Picture yourself applying for a loan at the bank. You need some extra cash for a development project — like kitchen remodeling, plumbing repair, or a second family car. “How many children do you have?” asks the bank official. “And how many more do you

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) applied to plants and animals the pessimistic theory which Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) had formulated about human population. Malthus assumed that human numbers increase, if uninhibited, by geometric progression; whereas sustenance increases by the slower arithmetic addition. In consequence, nature checks excessive human

Dr. Alban d’Entremont is Dean of Studies and Professor of Population Geography at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Navarro, Spain. A large amount of information has been published recently in the international press on the supposed relationships between population growth and its negative

U.S., AIDS Study The Federal Centers of Disease Control is funding a $300,000 investigation of whether the use of drills and other power tools on bones of AIDS patients causes invisible AIDS particles to be released into operating rooms, infecting health workers. The CDC previously

U.S.A., the Economic Lash: Developing nations complain that the United States utilizes an economic lash to drive countries, who appeal for desperately needed development funding, into embracing population control policies. Such policies are integrated into all aspects of cultural life, becoming a literal ‘war’ on

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics An Update: Bogus Mexican Abortion Deaths The March/April 1991 Population Research Institute Review ‘s POPCORN column reported a controversy between the Institute and author Alan Riding, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf, and Hippocrates magazine. The dispute centers on Riding’s claim

A report on AID population contractors’ compliance with the Mexico City policy, commissioned by the Agency for International Development, was released November 21. The study, done by the Population Technical Assistance Project (POP-TECH), found that the five AID contractors studied had conducted their overseas family