1. Socrates was a philosopher. This is a scientific discussion about science. You can’t apply philosophical principles to matters of science. Philosophy is just wishy washy personal opinion. Science is fact and experimentation.
2. People kill insects with DDT and other dangerous chemicals. Birds eat same insects and die also. Thus, its the pesticide that kills the birds, not the “insect borne disease” that intellectual midget Dr Rubin talks about.
3. Neither the dreaded potato blight, nor the dreaded English tax system caused the Irish potato famine. It was a volcano in the Dutch East Indies. (Mount Tambora).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Thus, as we can see, you childhood hero, Dr Rubin is looking a little fragile now! Do you have any more heroes that I can shoot down for you? lol