We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.