鼓吹埃博拉病毒杀戮世界人口90%演讲纪实报道

2016-5-6 14:12| 发布者: 风在手| 查看: 4438| 评论: 11

摘要: 让我摘下我的记者头衔，告诉你们我怎么想。我们生活在一个危险的时代。许多国家的国家安全处于风险中。科学已经成为受到高度关注的一系列不当行为和欺诈案件。

How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: Taxonomically Unique?" 109th Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science Program and Abstracts, Poster P59, p. 84, 2006).

我非常高兴见到我们去年夏天收集的落羽杉（Taxodium distichum）叶子与我的树圈照片转化为近乎提交科学杂志的一流科学介绍（Brian Iken, Dr. Deanna McCullough, “德克萨斯山县的落羽杉：品种独特》”，德州科学院第109届会议文摘，展板P59, p. 84, 2006）。

But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka (Fig. 1), the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.

但是，除了科学意义的方面，这次会议还有严重令人不安的一面，

我惊奇的观看一位讲演者鼓吹用一种可以在空气中漂浮传播的埃博拉病毒杀戮灭绝世界人口90%后受到热烈欢迎的场面。这位演讲者为埃里克·R·皮昂科博士（图1），德州大学的一位进化生态学家与蜥蜴专家，演讲后被德州科学院授予《2006年度著名德州科学家》称号。

Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. The camera operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of the big camera to the ceiling and slowly walked away.

皮昂卡博士开始发言前几分钟发生了某种奇怪的事。德州科学院一位官员走到礼堂前边电视摄影师旁，与他进行可见听不到的谈话。电视摄影师显然看起来不高兴，将电视摄影机镜头朝向房顶后缓慢走开。

This curious incident came to mind a few minutes later when Professor Pianka began his speech by explaining that the general public is not yet ready to hear what he was about to tell us. Because of many years of experience as a writer and editor, Pianka's strange introduction and the TV camera incident raised a red flag in my mind. Suddenly I forgot that I was a member of the Texas Academy of Science and chairman of its Environmental Science Section. Instead, I grabbed a notepad so I could take on the role of science reporter.

“几分钟后，皮昂卡博士发言首先说明公众可能对他要告诉大家的事还没有思想准备时，我立即回想起刚才奇怪的事。多年写作与编辑工作的经验，皮昂卡令人奇怪的开场白与电视摄影师奇怪的举动，令我警觉。我突然忘记我是德州科学院的一员及其环境科学部主席。我立即抓住我的记事本，履行一位科学记者的工作。

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