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 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: What happened to Michael Crichton? |
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Does anybody know what happened to Michael Crichton?
He died "unexpectedly" of throat cancer in 2008... his book State of Fear was released in 2004 and foreshadowed the controversy over climate warming...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear
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State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton concerning eco-terrorists who attempt mass murder to support their views. The novel had an initial print run of 1.5 million copies and reached the #1 bestseller position at Amazon.com and #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list for one week in January 2005. The book contains many graphs and footnotes, two appendices, and a twenty page bibliography, which have given many people the impression that the book has scientific authority,[1] but a majority of climate scientists dispute Crichton's science as being error-filled and distorted.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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The main villains in the plot are environmentalists. Crichton does place blame on "industry" in both the plot line and the appendices. Various assertions appear in the book, for example:
* The science behind global warming is so incomplete that no reasonable conclusions can be drawn on how to solve the "problem" (or if the "problem" even exists).
* Elites in various fields use either real or artificial crises to maintain the existing social order, misusing the "science" behind global warming.
* As a result of potential conflicts of interest, the scientists conducting research on topics related to global warming may subtly change their findings to bring them in line with their funding sources.
Crichton argues for removing politics from science and uses global warming and real-life historical examples in the appendices to make this argument. In a 2003 speech at the California Institute of Technology he expressed his concern about what he considered the "emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science—namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy."[7]
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