When blackmail is attempted to get Dr. Aaron Rodman to engage in a little biological triage, reducing by disease humanity’s numbers to a manageable level, he tests the result in an unorthodox way.

This is a cautionary tale, and as so many of Asimov’s other cautionary tales, heavy-handed, obvious, and therefore weak. (As a point of trivia, by the way, I first read it at the time of its original publication in Analog.) Definitely not among Asimov’s best.

Found In

	The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
	Great Science Fiction Stories By the World’s Great Scientists