Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Population Bomb

  • The bomb that fizzled

    Simon WeinPetach Tikvah, Israel The recent death of Paul R. Ehrlich (1932–2026) reminds us of the risks of hubris when prognosticating, ignoring human inventiveness, and promoting authoritarian control of society. Paul Ehrlich won the Swedish Crafoord Prize in 1990 (which is awarded in fields not covered by the Nobel Prize) for his post-graduate ethological research.…