Paul Ehrlich is dead. Regrettably, his legacy isn’t

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Anti-humanist crank, false prophet, eugenicist, and authoritarian Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93. Considering the celebrity biologist’s view of humans as parasites, it seems unlikely he’d want us to mourn.