News magazine show “60 Minutes” is under criticism for an interview it conducted last weekend with a doomsday scientist who has an alleged track record of making false apocalyptic predictions.
Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro said Tuesday that Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford biologist, has zero credibility when it comes to predicting end-of-life events. Shapiro stated that “60 Minutes” most likely knew what it was getting into with Ehrlich but chose to ignore his pattern of misinforming the public.
“60 Minutes featured him (Ehrlich) talking about how we are about to reach the end of civilization. This is the equivalent of ESPN having a sports handicapper who’s gotten wrong every single game that he has ever picked on the air,” said Shapiro.
Shapiro said “60 Minutes” was likely motivated by the need to sell a doom and gloom story.
“They are having him on because you need the wisdom and the old visage of a pseudo-scientist to tell you doom is coming unless you engage in the socialistic redistribution programs that the left loves,” he said.
Shapiro said Ehrlich has been advocating for population control for decades. Ehrlich authored a book called The Population Bomb. Written in the late 1960s, Ehrlich predicted that billions of people would die in the 1970s and 1980s of starvation.
“The wisdom of Paul Ehrlich has been disproven over and over in a single generation,” added Shapiro.
