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...culture is both more diaphanous and more significant than the calculations of book sales or Web postings suggest. She is the bogeyman of politics, the figure that liberals use when reaching for the ultimate insult, the way conservatives use Michael Moore. When the New York Times reviewed Michael Crichton's new novel recently, critic Bruce Barcott sneered that it "resembles one of those Ann Coulter 'Liberals Are Stupid' jobs." (After reading that, Coulter e-mailed me: "I AM THE GOLD STANDARD FOR LIBERAL BILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") Vanity Fair's Wolcott has called Coulter "the Paris Hilton of postmodern politics"; TIME...
surprising to me that Crichton, who was trained as an MD before he turned to writing science fiction, imagines that he has been able to develop in his spare time an understanding of climate science that is superior to that of the hundreds of full-time scientists working in the field,” McCarthy says. He notes that reports from the highly-regarded IPCC and the National Academy of Sciences “contradict Crichton's assertions on practically every point...
...Crichton does want to challenge the scientific consensus, “he should have put his ideas forward in a scholarly treatise that could have been critiqued and debated as such,” McCarthy says. “Instead, all we have is a novel...
Amidst countless plot twists, Crichton takes swipes at environmentalist groups—which he says are exaggerating the dangers of global warming—and at the scientific community, which he says is not conducting research “in a humble, rational and systematic...
That education should begin with Crichton himself. Four decades after graduating from Harvard, it might be time for Crichton to head back to school...