Posted on 10/04/2005 7:17:16 AM PDT by ZGuy
Great read.
Crichton graduated from Harvard summa cum laude with a major in anthropology. He then went to medical school and became an M.D.He presents a very broad back ground as a writer, both fiction and non-fiction, but his forte is the scientifically based thriller, i.e. The Andromeda Strain, Juriassic Park. His recent novel, State of Fear, revolves around the manipulation of climate "science" to fraudulently provoke fear of "global warming" as a means of manipulating public policy toward left-wing goals.
He's certainly MORE qualified then algore.
yup, he's 100% retarded.
Peach: Do you have the feeling you just picked your nose and ate it, and everyone was watching??
If their truth is so immutable - you wonder why the conclusions keep changing. Every week we hear about some new scientic "discovery" that disproves all the prior scientic thinking on an item
There is only One Truth. Don't try to change morals to agree to a changing science - keep your morals constant, and let the science change - as it will.
This is the guy who writes utterly extreme fiction isn`t it? I like his one movie Disclosure, about sex addict Michael Douglas telling Demi Moore "No"..No Demi, stop the torture. Yeah, OK. That movie was almost as believable as liberals saying they love America.
he testified mostly about procedure and methodolgy... which shouldn't theoretically change regardless of what you are researching..
No donations to democrats in the last ten years though.
I imagine his credentials are way more secure than those of environmental expert, Barbra Streissand, who just declared an environmental emergency for our planet.
Actually, this seems to make his declarations all the more legitimate.
He's more qualified than Clooney and all those bleeding heart liberal actors who assume that their celebrity status somehow warrants them the right to assume their opinions have a better standing than those people whio actually are experts in their field. I think Crichton is speaking as a doctor (educated in scientific inquiry) who may want to expose the inherent dangers of having politically motivated agendas compromise the integrity of the scientific process.
That may be, but he's still a libtard in my book. I'm not going to go around singing his praises just yet.
The movie was garbage but the book was good, dealing with a lot of the contemporary working-world problems.
I wonder the same. I'm not saying that what he is alleging is wrong, but I'm not going to defer to him just because his conclusions might be more agreeable. There is plenty of info out there on the net rebutting what Crichton has to say on these issues in his book. I'll reserve judgement for the moment.
The man's a certified genius. When calling into doubt many of the global warning data and scientific method, I'll back him one hundred percent.
Who the hell is listening to Barbra Streisand? I doubt if she is going to be quoted in any scientific paper or asked to give a talk on this subject at a conference.
He is a doctor, Harvard Med. And he wrote his first best seller while in school. He's brilliant.
He's a studier. All of his books are, in the end, about some larger concept beyond the story, whether it be medical ethics, corporate science, gobal financial trends, or something else. He vehemently studies the core topic of his books before writing and he's got a solid science/ medicine background, then he builds a story to lay out what he's found/ thinks. Chrichton is an all around sharp guy, he was one of the first to predict the Japanese "purchase" of America was going to fail (and was already failing). Ignore the movies made from his books, they always drop or screw up the core topic.
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