Michael Crichton
Author Michael Crichton has become the newest darling of the t envro-bashers. It started with speeches at Caltech and the Commonwealth Club. He has now come out with a book, State of Fear. Although a work of fiction, it is being praised for telling the truth about global warming and the environmental movement by many of the same people who praised earlier works by Bjorn Lomborg, Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw, Gregg Easterbrook and others.
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A commonsense look at a global problem by Jim DiPeso
'Fear'-mongering Crichton wrong on science by Naomi Oreskes, especially critical of Chrichton's analogy of global warming and eugenics.
Fun With Footnotes [in Crichton's State of Fear] by Chris Mooney
Novel on global warming gets some scientists burned up by Seth Borenstein
Checking Crichton's footnotes by Chris Mooney
Grist has come out with a multi page look at Michael Crichton's State of Fear:
Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" by Dave Roberts
Crichton Mad: A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear by David Roberts (The best review yet)
Distort Reform: A review of the distorted science in Michael Crichton's State of Fear by Gavin Schmidt
'State of Fear': Not So Hot By BRUCE BARCOTT
In More "Sound Science" Chris Mooney notes that Michael Crichton is a strange choice as a speaker on science policy. He also notes that Crichton has been fooled by a conjurer's trick.
Chris Mooney has more on Michael Crichton's talk at the AEI, here and here.
Who you gonna believe? [Crichton or the scientists] by Dave Roberts
In Fear of reason Gregory Benford and Martin Hoffert criticise Michael Crichton's distortion of their scientific findings.
Bad Science, Bad Fiction is Chris Mooney's review of Michael Crichton's State of Fear
Michael Crichton and Global Warming by David B. Sandalow
Getting Warmer is Elizabeth Kolbert's review of State of Fear
In Consensus science Willim Connely looks at the claim that concensus isn't science.
In Crichton's Unfortunate Influence Chis Mooney dissects a Debra J. Saunders column.
Weather Underground review of Michael Crichton's State of Fear
Michael Crichton's State of Fear: They Don't Call It Science Fiction for Nothing (Actually, calling it science fiction is an insult to real science fiction authors. Its garbage.)
In George Will-misled and misleading RealClimate looks at a George Will column.
In Anti-Greenhouse Argument Hot Air John Fleck has more on Michael Crichton and his use of the Galileo argument.
Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion II: Return of the Science
Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion
Science and pseudoscience by Henry Farrell
A review of Travels and Questions that Left Michael Crichton Speechless from the North Texas Skeptics
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