I’M SORRY, BUT IF YOU’RE “working toward a master’s degree in bioethics” you’re not actually a “scientist.”

UPDATE: The following comment is a New York Times “Editors’ Pick:”

Actually Zika is our friend. It will make couples think twice about adding to an already over-populated earth. Kids “happen” without much thought, which was OK when the Old Testament was written, but today? (I myself never had kids. In fact my family is so weird I believe the choice was probably a service to humanity.) I wish we would think more about quality than quantity. I wish we could institute a parental licencing test. I never really bought the Gaia principle, but this is the perfect disease to present as evidence of its existence. Perhaps the earth is scratching an itch.

I think it did that when you never had kids.