Science! Controversy!

Wow. Nothing says online smack-fest like this story. An ecologist may have suggested the earth would be better off with less of us around. A lot less. 90% less. Of course, an actual transcript of said speech seems to be impossible to track down, and that's where the fun begins. This story courtesy of the Society of Amateur Scientists with some editorial comments here (bonus points for Manson and Hitler analogies) and it seems to have ignited the folks at Hit and Run (their headline sums it up). Of course, the comments are fun to delve into. The Bioethics Blog took the story up, too. Finally, the sciencey-politicy Panda's Thumb suggests it might be some sort of conspiracy.