Eric Pianka, discussed here by Benj Hellie, is an internationally distinguished biologist (his unit [formerly Zoology, now Integrative Biology] has been for some time one of the top ten in the country) and also an iconoclast. Anyone in doubt about that might want to peruse his obituary which he has posted on his homepage. Now that's planning ahead!
UPDATE: UT has issued a nice press release, which both gets the focus right (Pianka was being honored for the excellence of his scientific work) and corrects the distortions about his views circulating via the right-wing misinformation highway of blogs and web sites.
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