Censorship, Suppression & Personal Attack
Many powerful economic, political, and social institutions, as well as some powerful economic and political individuals, do not want the American public to understand the need for rational, national population policies. These institutions and individuals influence what appears in mainstream media, what is allowed in the various venues of environmental, scientific, and academic organizations, what is taught in schools and universities, and what is discussed and enacted in legislatures. These censors consistently work to suppress open discussion of America's perpetual population growth and its negative impacts on the environment and on social institutions. Leader and most aggressive among such suppressive institutions would be American Association for the Advancement of Science. Suppression mechanisms common to many organizations include exclusion of relevant topics or points of view from journals, meeting programs, and exhibit halls, as well as attempts to censor or prohibit distribution of published articles and books, distortion of factual information, and personal attacks on individuals and organization as a substitute for cogent analysis and discussion.
Fortunately, there is a growing literature that takes all these censors to tasks, from the mild-mannered, silver-tongued censors and omitters of facts to the angriest and most arrogant of ideologues. The chronologically ordered bibliography below is just a sampling of that literature. Most entries are articles, but a few are websites where numerous articles may be found. For many items, SEPS can provide a pdf if you cannot access one via the link provided. Just send your request via info@populationstabilization.org. Suggestions for additional items to this bibliography can be sent to the same address.
- Beacon for Freedom of Expression, National Library of Norway
- How the Vatican influences population growth policy, Mumford 1984
- Australian Inland Waters: A Limited Resource, Williams, 1993
- The timid crusade, Grant, 1994
- The valiant exhumation of long-buried highest-level U.S. population policy documents, Ravenholt, 1996
- How and why journalists avoid the population-environment connection, Maher, 1997
- Political correctness and the population problem, Ryerson, 1998*
- Suppression of dissent in science, Martin, 1999
- The environmental movement's retreat from advocating U.S. population stabilization (1970-1998): a first draft of history, Beck & Kolankiewicz, 2000
- Introduction: a long way from Earth Day, Graham, 2000
- Report from the Media Standards Project: the nearly universal unprofessionalism of immigration coverage, Guzzardi, 2000
- The church of Morris Dees: how the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance, Silverstein, 2000
- Science: Contemporary censorship, Martin, 2001
- Censorship and secrecy, social and legal perspectives, Marx, 2001
- Attempts by the Sierra Club to stifle democracy in the 1998, 1999, and 2000 elections, SUSPS, 2001
- To what extent does the Australian print media address environment when commenting on population policy?, Goldie, 2002
- Immigration and false accusations of racism, Green, 2004
- Immigration, population policy, and the Sierra Club, Meyerson, 2004
- Why the silence on population? Keynote address to the first annual meeting of the Population and Sustainability Network, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Campbell, 2005.
- Puppeteer responds: Our publisher answers SPLC critics, Tanton, 2005
- A vast social experiment: the immigration act of 1965, Graham, 2005
- Projecting the U.S. Population to 2050: four immigration scenarios, Martin & Fogel, 2006
- Why the silence on population?, Campbell, 2007
- Will the Ecological Society of America bite the population bullet?, Hurlbert, 2007 (the blog)
- Will the Ecological Society of America bite the population bullet?, Hurlbert, 2007 (the document)
- A guide to understanding the tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the immigration debate, FAIR, 2009
- King of the hate business: with haters on the wane, what will the hate-seekers do?, Cockburn, 2009
- Journalist alert: beware the politicized "hate group" designations by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), FAIR, 2009
- Strategic Negligence: How the Sierra Club's Distortions on Border and Immigration Policy Are Undermining its Environmental Legacy , Kammer, 2009
- Environment: don't mention people, Bolton, 2010
- A case study in disinformation: attacking John Tanton, CIT, 2010
- Profiteers of hate; the smear-mongering agenda of the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Social Contract, Spring, 2010 (many different articles on topic in this issue)
- Guilt by invented association, Camarota, 2010
- SPLC's MO: Audacter calumniare semper aliquid haeret (slander boldly, something always sticks), Tanton, 2010
- The number left out: bringing population into the climate conversation, Engelman, 2010
- Immigration and the SPLC, Kammer, 2010
- Panel: Immigration and the SPLC, (video) Swain, 2010
- SPLC's MO: audacter calumniare semper aliquid haeret (slander boldly, something always sticks) , Tanton, 2010
- The practice of ritual defamation - how values, opinions, and beliefs are controlled in democratic societies, Wilcox, 2010
- The Southern Poverty Law Center - A Special Report, The Social Contract, 2010
- Racial racketeering for fun and profit: the Southern Poverty Law Center scam, DiLorenzo, 2011
- Many environmental scientists are wayward or cowed when faced with an irrefutable truth: too many people destroy natural resources, Hull, 2011
- Wives of the Bishop of Worcester: the Ecological Society of America and globalist copoutism, Hurlbert, 2011
- Will the Ecological Society of America bite the population bullet?, Hurlbert, 2011
- Frontiers, immigration, and political censorship, Hurlbert, 2011
- The North American Lake Management Society: axing truth, threatening lawsuits, Hurlbert, 2011
- Pacific salmon, immigration, and censors: unreliability of the cowed technocrat, Hurlbert, 2011
- Is the AAAS oblivious to U.S. overpopulation and its consequences? Or is it just another censor?, Hurlbert, 2011
- Environmental scientists as censors, Kolankiewicz, 2011
- Refusal to correct misinformation on immigration numbers from ESA, Martin & Schneider, 2011
- Environmental groups silent on population growth and immigration, Ting, 2011
- What you don't know about the immigration bill, Samuelson, 2011
- The Sierra Club's profitable descent into leftism, Walker, 2011
- Mission creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center's misguided focus, Swain, 2011
- Population camel gets its nose into ecologists' tent: hope is high that the rest will follow, Hurlbert, 2012
- American Association for the Advancement of Silence (on national population policies) muffles 'obnoxious' Canadians too, Schindler, Weld & Hurlbert, 2012
- Southern Poverty Law Center: wellspring of manufactured hate, Simpson, 2012
- Alabama immigration law debate continues with an open panel, Chandler, 2012
- Media ignores the facts on illegal immigration, Smith, 2012
- Deconstructing the dangerous dogma of denial: the feminist-environmental justice movement and its flight from overpopulation, Weld, 2012
- King of Fearmongers - Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971, Allen, 2013
- The hate list: is America really being overrun by right-wing militants?, Berger, 2013
- Environmental impact study must precede comprehensive immigration reform, Cutler, 2013
- S. 744 omits population impact study: findings would be catastrophic, Guzzardi, 2013
- Hillary Clinton tries to silence Bindi Irwin on population growth, Shorten, 2013
- Bindi Irwin's original (unedited) essay regarding overpopulation, Irwin, 2013
- Leading newspapers slant immigration coverage: censorship par for course at L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Kolankiewicz, 2013
- The 1965 immigration act - its intent, its consequences, Auster, 2015
- Too many bodies? The return and disavowal of the population question, Coole, 2015
- Can a black, pro-enforcement immigration activist be a "white nationalist?": a revealing look at the illegal alien lobby and their smears, Eberhart, 2015
- The Southern Poverty Law Center steps in it - again, McAlpin, 2015
- Crazy SPLC smears black woman as white nationalist, Elbel, 2015
- The hypocrisy at the heart of today's food security debate, Porritt, 2015
- German authorities crack down on free speech, refuse debate on mass-migration, Uniyal, 2015
- Political correctness and media censorship: the case of Sweden and immigration, Wente, 2015
- The EU wants to increase Muslim immigration and internet censorship, Fjordman, 2016
- Home Office censors, suppresses report into immigration, integration, and radical Islam, Friedman, 2016
- AAAS wields the censor's hammer on U.S. population issues, Hurlbert, 2016
- Population: persuading environmental NGOs to speak out, Maynard & Porritt, 2016
- The hate group that incited the Middlebury melee, Cannon, 2017
- Earth Day and population: a missed opportunity, Kolankiewicz, 2017
- Media eats crow after distorting Sessions' speech on immigrants, Chastain, 2017
- No, Trump's Immigration order isn't racist or reminiscent of the Holocaust, McAllister, 2017
- SPLC 2: the search for more money, Sailer, 2017
- But is this really a march for science, or are folks being led down a primrose path?, Hurlbert, Kolankiewicz & Nachman, 2017
- Obama DOJ reprimanded SPLC for hateful attacks on immigration control groups, Judicial Watch, 2017
- Differ with the Southern Poverty Law Center? You're evil!, Vadum, 2017
- Why the mainstream media must stop citing 'anti-hate'-crusader Southern Poverty Law Center, Wilcox, 2017
- Some people love to call names: the Southern Poverty Law Center's extremist list isn't a consumer reports guide, it's a political tool, Zinsmeister, 2017
- 12 Ways the Southern Poverty Law Center is a scam to profit from hate-mongering, Morabito, 2017
- A demagogic bully: the Southern Poverty Law Center demonizes respectable political opponents as "hate groups" - and keeps its coffers bulging, Pulliam, 2017
- Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center targeting liberals?, Hirsi Ali, 2017
- J.P. Morgan's hate list: What is its gift to the Southern Poverty Law Center telling bank customers?, Strassel, 2017
- Documents reveal Southern Poverty Law Center shipping millions to offshore accounts, Lifson, 2017
- What it's like to be smeared by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Swain, 2017
- The Southern Poverty Law Center put me on its hate list. It's a smear and I don't belong there, Scherlacher, 2017
- EXPOSED: The SPLC is a hate group pretending to be an anti-hate group, Heyes, 2017
- Has a civil rights stalwart lost its way?, Schreckinger, 2017
- SPLC Truth Report, 2017
- The State of Free Speech and Tolerance in America, Ekins, 2017
- Conservatives must fight medias censorship of pro-life content, Lasch, 2017
- Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Mandates, Faculty ‘Training’ at San Diego State, Rosenberg, 2018
- The SPLC File - An Exclusive Report on the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Social Contract, 2018
- Personal Thoughts on the SPLC's $3.375 Million Acknowledgement of Recklessness, Kammer, 2018
- Pressured, the Southern Poverty Law Center Admits It Was Wrong, Murray, 2018
- Free Speech and Its Present Crisis, Guelzo, 2018
- Exporting Censorship: How U.S. Anti-Abortion Policy Violates: International Laws on Freedom of Speech and Association, Global Justice Center, 2018
- Repeating Slurs From The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Journalistic Malpractice, Mehlman 2019
- UC Davis professor under fire for opposing required ‘diversity statements’, Frank, 2019
- The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center , Moser, 2019
- Attempts by scientists to suppress discussion of overpopulation: a California case that backfired nicely, Hurlbert, 2019
- The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism, Robinson, 2019
- Southern Poverty Law Center designates itself a hate group, Lowry, 2019
- Years of turmoil and complaints led the Southern Poverty Law Center to fire its founder Morris Dees, Satija, Lowery & Reinhard, 2019
- Confronting a persistent harasser and slanderer, Hurlbert, 2020
- Antidotes to the virtue-signaling, violence-encouraging ignorance, arrogance and intellectual thuggery of elitists in U.S. scientific and academic establishments, Hurlbert, 2020
- Conformity in Academia, Explained, Bauerlein, 2020
- Cancel Culture Takes Root at San Diego State University, Lynn, 2020
- Higher Ed and the Fragmentation of America, Hatch, 2020
- Opinion: Illiberal Faculty Rule to Protect SDSU’s ‘Reputation’ Echoes China, Iran, Herman, 2020
- A defence of difference, Iman, 2020
- Fighting back against the cancel culture, McColl, 2020
- Conformity to a Lie: Academia’s monolithic belief in systemic racism will further erode American institutions and the principles of our civilization, MacDonald, 2020
- Retired conservative SDSU professor targeted by effort to revoke his emeritus status , Hilu, 2020
- Emeritus Professor Under Siege Once Again , Randall, 2020
- Amid criticism, SDSU will reconsider controversial proposal to revoke emeritus status of professors , Robbins, 2020
- Anti-Racism’s Threat to Academic Freedom, Rosenberg, 2020
- FIRE Letter to San Diego State University, July 23, 2020 , Steinbaugh, 2020
- There’s an effort to get me fired at Cornell for criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement, Jacobson, 2020
- Here’s What the M.I.T. Catholic Chaplain Got Fired Over, New Boston Post Staff, 2020
- On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry, Toshev, Quillette, 2020
- Campus Reform reporters, professor targeted with death threats, online harassment, Smith, 2020
- I’ve Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You, Winegard, Quillette, March 6, 2020
- How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets, Powell, New York Times, 2020
- UChicago refuses to punish professor protested for criticizing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Hilu, 2020
- Add Me to the List of Canceled Professors, Salzman, 2020
- The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility, McWhorter, 2020
- Types of State Attacks on Abortion, Planned Parenthood, 2020
- Cancel Culture Is a Dangerous, Totalitarian Trend, Greenhut, 2020
- Conformity in Academia, Explained, Bauerlein, The Epoch Times, 2020
- Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom, McWhorter, 2020
- Cancel Culture Is Only Getting Worse, Gerstmann, 2020
- Media Bias, Censorship, and Corporate Political Correctness Run Amuck, Elbel, 2020
- Anti-Racism’s Threat to Academic Freedom, Rosenberg, 2020
- Progressives are no longer defenders of free expression, Hanson, 2020
- Freedom of Expression, American Civil Liberties Union, 2021
- Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive, Evans, 2021
- Fire’s Guide To Free Speech On Campus, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2021
- Southern Poverty Law Center finally pays for its smears, Editorial Board New York Post, 2021
- FIRE: Worst Colleges for Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2021
- SPLC - Southern Poverty Law Center hate group, Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform, 2021
- Tracking "Cancel Culture" in Higher Education, Acevedo, 2021
- Liberalism’s Ministry of Truth, Editorial Board Wall Street Journal, 2021