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Famous English scientist, philosopher, scholar and *ahem* radio personality Professor  C.E.M. Joad was right – in 1939.

Approximately 134 million people have died since 1939 – in the U.S. alone.
“Oh, but that’s only millions,” says the modern skeptic/denier/pissant.

Given that the world population in 1939 was ±2.3 billion, and  today it’s closer to about 7 billion, using co-polemic effulgence theory coupled with Algebra XIV, we can safely assume that Professor Joad’s prediction was correct, i.e.,
“Billions will die.” And that they did. Or maybe only a billion did – so far. We’re still counting. From Wiki:

In his early life, Joad very much shared the desire for the destruction of the Capitalist system. He was expelled from the Fabian Society in 1925, because of sexual misbehaviour at its summer school and did not rejoin until 1943. In 1931, disenchanted with Labour in office, Joad became Director of Propaganda for the New Party. Owing to the rise of Oswald Mosley’s Pro-Fascist sympathies, Joad resigned, along with John Strachey. Soon after he became bitterly opposed to Nazism, but he continued to refuse military service. Joad gave his support to many pacifist organizations.

Seems like some folks *wink wink nudge nudge* have not moved beyond the doomsday hysteria of 1939 and are playing the same games today. Whether dead or alive, we proudly mock them here on The Overnight Open Thread.