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Steven Mosher and the latest Rwandan genocide: your tax dollars at work...

by David and Tim Bayly on February 14, 2011 - 8:09am

(Tim, w/thanks to Dan R.) Back in 1983, a young Stanford anthropologist was booted from China for blowing the whistle on China's forced abortion policy. Steven Mosher (not the Mosher of Climategate) had been in one of China's rural provinces doing Ph.D. research when he discovered China's government forced mothers to murder their unborn children.

Mosher publicized this great oppression and China's government responded by expelling him from the country. Standford University also responded by expelling Mosher from his Ph.D. program. The Chronicle of Higher Education did long articles on the scandal and, despite Stanford's attempt to defend their actions, those of us who read about the case as it developed learned a lesson about the limits of Academic freedom.

Shortly afterwards, Mosher published his best-selling expose of China's mass murders of the unborn, Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese; followed a few years later by Allan Bloom's best-selling expose of the Academy, The Closing of the American Mind.

For some years, now, Mosher has been doing excellent work at the Population Research Institute. Here's a recent example exposing the abuse of our U.S. tax dollars for the coercive sterilization of Rwandan men.

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Submitted by Bike Bubba on February 14, 2011 - 10:45am

It's indicative how Stanford punished Mosher for work that quite frankly should have gotten Mosher a Pulitzer or better.

Oh, wait, you get a Pulitzer only (e.g. Duranty) for *hiding* the abuses of Communism. My mistake!

Submitted by Daniel Meyer on February 7, 2012 - 8:55am

I appreciate what Steven Mosher and PRI have done and continue to do. Every time I hear of either in the news it is always good, whether they're advocating for those who are in physical danger from oppressive governments simply because of having children or combating the overpopulation propaganda that's everywhere.

A blight on this has to do with their informative website, overpopulationisamyth.com, where there are short videos exposing the untruths behind the overpopulation meme. Near the beginning of the first video, they speak of Thomas Malthus:

"He...recommended killing off the have-nots of society, lest the haves starve to death."

And in the question and answer section:
"Did Malthus really say to kill off the poor?
Yep..."

"Malthus thought doctors shouldn't cure diseases?"
(yes)

This is an extreme misrepresentation of Malthus' position, as I demonstrate here:

http://todayorthatday.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/malthus-bad-but-not-quite-that-bad/

It is a concern to me that PRI has left the errant material up. I haven't been able to get a response to my calls, emails or postal mail lately. I don't know what else to do other than ask, can someone find an error in my reasoning in the page linked above? Or does someone have connections to Mr. Mosher and could raise the concern to him? I'd sure like to see PRI and Mr. Mosher correct this and show themselves on the high road.

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