The most anti-science administration in history has reached its ultimate manifestation of idiocy. And it's got over 500 pages.
President Bush created a Council on Bioethics in 2001 to examine issues such as stem cells and cloning. Their recent report suggests Bush assembled the Taliban. 21st Century medicine is examined through the lens of Bible stories. Living longer is considered a bad thing because the Greek gods lived "shallow and frivolous lives." There is a "mortal danger" with the idea that "a person has a right over his body." And what's "worst of all?"
Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. ... Eating on the street--even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat--displays [a] lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. ... Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. ... This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.
That is not The Onion. That is the council President Bush turns to for advice on all his decisions about bioethics.