RE: Michael Crichton dies

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:
 
> That being said, he was also the enemy of Science and
> scientific thinking
> during the last decade of his life. His irresonsible
> promotion of
> non-scientific counterclaims against climate and
> paleoclimate research
> reached the very highest levels of power: "State of
> Fear" was required
> reading by Senator Inhofe's (himself a climate change
> denier) Senate
> Committee on Environment and Public Works. When George W.
> Bush wanted to
> meet with a climate expert he didn't get a
> climatologist from NOAA or NASA
> or a paleoclimatologist from USGS. Instead, he brought in
> Crichton.

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I wonder if his rather sudden anti-science movement, had anything to do with 
his cancer. I don't remember hearing what type of cancer he had, but if it was 
a brain tumour, I could see it affecting his work.

Though, admittedly, I would imagine him writing in weird stuff that makes no 
sense (like a dinner party inside an el camino). 

Jason