There’s a Judge Dredd story where a scientist accidentally releases one of his concoctions and the inhabitants of a city block start devolving. The closer to the centre of infection, the farther back along the chain until the scientist himself is nothing more than a blob of protoplasm, which Dredd promptly arrests.

Someone’s let the Dover, Pennsylvania school board get a sniff of the elixir and they’re rapidly turning into amoebae. At least the teachers they’ve ordered to talk up the non-science of Intelligent Design are far enough up the tree to still have backbones.