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Malthus and the "World Wide Population of Flies".

Forty years ago our then Science Teacher told us, whilst discussing population dynamics, that Malthus estimated that there had been so many flies on the planet that if they had not decomposed, their bodies would have covered the entire planet in a layer some ten metres high. This particularly gross image has stayed with me throughout the decade.

This article is a mess

Latest comment: 3 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

Especially the section on "The Malthusian controversy", which appears to be original research and is full of [number] that aren't actual footnotes. -- Jibal (talk) 21:16, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Jibal agreed100%, came here to post the same thing. Sasubpar (talk) 03:21, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Went through and fixed the footnotes -- it looks like there were originally citations but they were never properly hyperlinked. (I'm guessing it was plain-text copy-pasted from another article at some point.) Agree it still reads very much like someone's essay and needs some serious editing. Moriwen (talk) 01:04, 1 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

The grammar is so confusing in the article too. Like I cannot understand what certain sentences mean because of the way it’s phrased. Rhayailaina (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

"Whose ox was gored" missing citation and should be removed.

Latest comment: 11 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

"Whose ox was gored" missing citation and should be removed. 137.53.242.44 (talk) 21:22, 13 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Irrelevant information

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I find that the fourth paragraph's "Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison read Malthus" is irrelevant because it simply doesn't have any purpose in the article as both presidents were extremely well read and it isn't much to say that they "read Malthus". MrGumballs (talk) 20:55, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply