Pill Inventor Slams Pill

Eighty five year old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill now says that his co-creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.”

In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world’s Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought “devastating ecological effects” by releasing into the environment “tonnes of hormones” that had impaired male fertility, The Taiwan Times says.

Pope Paul VI: Prophet of the 21st Century

In related news: The New Scientist leaves off ridiculing the Christian tradition for a little bit to pull its chin about how to do science ethically. Of course, the culture of pop science writers is pervade by crude atheist materialist reductionism which posits that human being are basically very fortuitous concatenations of molecules, so that project of trying to create an ethic is doomed from the start, but you can’t fault them for remaining human enough to at least recognize the horror that a science, untethered from the Christion tradition, has the capacity to unleash. Perhaps with sufficient applications of time and prayer, somebody will pick up a copy of The Abolition of Man and do a re-think. In the meantime, however, we face a scientific community which recognizes only seven basic element to all of reality: time, space, matter, energy, power, funding, and prestige. Anybody who seriously thinks that some thin, watery gruel of “ethics” is going to stop that juggernaut if it decides to pursue some nasty course that mows down human life and dignity in the pursuit of profit, power and fame is, quite simply, a fool. The story of the Pill is the story of our time. These people have the best ethics money can buy. Just ask Steven Pinker.