The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947)

Crowley didn’t anticipate the Bush administration, and its manipulative, intolerant, medieval anti-science. They’ve been nothing but obstructionist with even their own climate scientists. And Bush’s stance on stem cell research has more in common with Salem in 1692 than the America of 2008.