However, the reality is that he was expelled because he released those photos with the subject's faces exposed, which is a really serious ethical breach. If you're doing investigative work purporting to demonstrate the evil of a government, and a big piece of your evidence is pictures of specific citizens of that government's country being the victim of government oppression, you have a paramount responsibility to protect those people's identity. Stanford was shocked that Mosher would publish these images with no regard for how his doing so could put these women in danger. And after reviewing relevant ethical standards, they kicked him out of the school.

And so while there are many good reasons to denounce and decry the practices of the Chinese government in relation to its one-child policy, Mosher seems to approach his criticisms from a very weird angle. His argument is that they started the policy because of fears about overpopulation, but that those fears were fake and just a cover-up for their real reasons, which are that they wanted to brutally control the population. He then takes this implication that the Chinese government was lying about their motives and applies it to all family planning and birth control initiatives worldwide. This is really what Mosher is all about. He's a devout Catholic who is staunchly opposed to all family planning. He runs an organization called the Population Research Institute, whose mission is to, quote, debunk the myth of overpopulation, which cheapens human life and paves the way for abusive population control programs, and, quote, expose the relentless promotion of abortion... Abortifacent? That's it. Contraception. And chemical and surgical sterilization in misleadingly labeled population stabilization, family planning, and reproductive health programs. So that's really what he's about. Mosher and his institute do not care about the seriously complex issues of overpopulation. Serious researchers on the topic would agree with him that the issue isn't that there's too many people. It's that our resource allocation is completely fucked up. And that overpopulation is a serious issue when the vast majority of the people who exist are living in poverty. poverty. Poverty is the problem, not just the number of humans, and it would be easier to take Mosher seriously if he cared about that at all. But he doesn't, because his work is just a Trojan horse to attack contraception and all pro-choice advocacy.