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Reason magazine has picked up an a story broken by zombie, flagged by Michelle Malkin (who has since followed up here and here), and detailed here.  Watch for much spinning and numerous “clarifications” (a la Sotomayor) as this story continues to move into the light such that the MSM will no longer be able to ignore it:

Science Fiction ‘Czar’
The disturbing intellectual record of Obama’s science czar
By David Harsanyi
reasononline

Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy—better known as the “science czar”—has been a longtime prophet of environmental catastrophes. Never discouraged but never right.

And thanks to resourceful bloggers, you can read excerpts from a hard-to-find book co-authored by Holdren in the late 1970s, called Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, online.

In it, you will find the czar wading into some unpleasant talk about mass sterilizations and abortions.

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Then again, it’s one thing to be a bumbling soothsayer but quite another to underestimate the resourcefulness of mankind enough to ponder how “population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution,” as Holdren did in Ecoscience in 1977.

The book, in fact, is sprinkled with comparable statements that passively discuss how coercive population control methods might rescue the world from ... well, humans.

When I called Holdren’s office, I was told that the czar “does not now and never has been an advocate of compulsory abortions or other repressive measures to limit fertility.”

If that is so, I wondered, why is his name on a textbook that brought up such policy? Did he not write that part? Did he change his mind? Was it theoretical? No straightforward answer was forthcoming.

Proof positive that there even eugenics is not a sufficiently damned idea to prevent the progressives from wanting to try it one more time.

Our local conditional opponent of eugenics has been unavailable for comment.