It doesn't look like it. Cathy Young writes about religious zealots on both the left and the right, attempting to pervert science to their own ends.

In Ron Arnold's excellent book "Trashing the Economy", he points out the "To h*ll with you all." strain of thought which is prevalent in the anti-human environmentalist. I'm surprised that they are are going out of their way to hide it at this point.

Smeared? It depends what you are talking about. I've looked into this in some detail. I don't see justification for Dembski reporting Pianka to Homeland Security. On the other hand, Pianka's brand of nonsense (mostly just rewarmed "Limits To Growth"/Population Bomb stuff from the '70s) shouldn't be passed off as science, and I get really annoyed seeing this portrayed as a science/anti-science argument. There was a quick "circling the wagons" response around Pianka, and while the death threats and other garbage were just flat wrong, it didn't make Pianka right, or this a religion versus science argument.

Anyone else out there an admirer of those modern-day Jonathan Swift-ians Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy who write the hilarious "Destroyer" books? In at least one of their delightfully un-PC tomes (the title of which I no longer recall), the bad guys are a bunch of deranged tree-huggers of exactly the Pianka mindset who style themselves "The Human Surplus League." The leader is not only anti-human, he's not even too keen on any lifeform with a brain and spinal cord. He's convinced his real mother was a blowfly. Great stuff.

Dick, I dimly recall that series. While I'm leery of pulp adventure factories like that (it's on book 142 with two additional books in production!), this one had a unique style to it. If I start the habit again, this is probably the drug I'll start with. :-)

The warring factions are missing the point about whether this "teacher" should have access to students at a public institution. I sure don't want my tax dollars supporting a nutcase like this.