You may have never heard of Lawrence Torcello, but he wants to put you in prison. Torcello is an assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, and he wrote recently that the “well documented funding of global warming denialism” is not only wrong but “ought to be considered criminally negligent.” He complains that “climate denial remains a serious deterrent against meaningful political action in the very countries most responsible for the crisis.” And his solution is, “The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of scientific consensus.” And here we thought science was forming and testing hypotheses, not burning heretics at the stake.