CHAPTER 6

              POPULATION CONTROL AND KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION CONTROL

                              A CASE OF LYSENKOISM


             Population growth has engendered even more intense feelings

        and action than the environment or natural resources, because the

        lives of human beings are immediately at stake.  Proposals such

        as putting contraceptives into the drinking water understandably

        arouse passions against such schemes, just as the schemes

        themselves are the product of passions among those who propose

        such schemes.  In milder forms, however, population control has

        wide support among the public, the polls tells us, and in the

        Congress, as we know from votes to support U.S. population

        control activities abroad.







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