The Right Chemistry: Antivenom efforts snake along

The police officer stopped the sedan on a Tennessee highway in 2013 for having windows that were tinted too dark. He noticed a couple of ornate boxes in the car and asked what they contained. Back came the surprising answer, “rattlesnakes and copperheads.” Sitting in the back seat with the snakes was pastor Jamie Coots, a Biblical literalist, who was subsequently charged with “Illegal Possession of Class 1 Wildlife.” Biblical literalists base their faith on a passage in M