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There's a lengthy tradition, dating back long before Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to mythological precedents like the story of Prometheus, that depicts the search for knowledge as forbidden, dangerous, and leading disastrous consequences. In modern cinema especially, the Frankenstein myth has fueled the recurring depiction of "mad scientist" characters whose pursuit of knowledge tempts them to pursue forbidden powers as well—a desire that ultimately leads to their downfall (after taking lots of innocent victims along with them). Leon Kass, the conservative first chair of President Bush's President's Council on Bioethics, the council's meetings by assigning members to read a Frankenstein -type story, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark," whose plot (summarized by someone far ) involves "a scientist married to a stunningly beautiful woman whose only flaw is a tiny, hand-shaped birthmark on her cheek. birthmarks dc