Are the abbies in Wayward Pines related

to the It's Alive babies? The preface of the Blake Crouch books goes something like this:
"Sometime in the 1970s a brilliant young scientist named David Pilcher figures out that the human race as we know it is going to become extinct within thirty or forty generations because of genetic mutations brought on by all of the chemicals and pollution we have set loose on the planet. He spends his lifetime trying to figure out how to save humanity, or rather, prolong its existence. He develops suspended animation techniques and recruits about a hundred and fifty people to help him, and then press-gangs about six hundred more folks into becoming the residents of his little outpost, known as Wayward Pines."

The movie Its Alive which supposedly takes place in the 70's also says the killer baby is a result of pollution if I remember correctly. I wonder if Crouch borrowed that idea and went from there with his books. If Pilcher had examined one of the baby corpses in the 70's it would certainly explain his hysterically obsessive determination to abduct and freeze a population of people ASAP for the future. By the third It's Alive movie the government is clearly aware of the problem and is keeping it a secret. That would explain his funding and his secret government cooperation. Government secrecy would also make it hard to prove his case scientifically.
Anyone have an idea?

Frankly I thought the TV series stunk.