I’ll let my friend Jerry Coyne, whose eclectic science e-mag, Why Evolution is True, brilliantly challenges the anti-science crowd (and keeps us all enthralled with pictures and biographies of kitty cats), give you this piece of genuine, if confounding, legal news.
Doesn’t it feel nowadays that some of us are eagerly progressing toward a deeper comprehension of human life, while millions of others are furiously retreating into primordial muck?