As a country that enjoys a leadership position in the increasingly technological world, we need science and we need scientists. Science is our friend, or at least it should be. And, this "global warming" fiasco only gives ammunition to people in society that are anti-science. That is bad, very very bad and counter to what America needs most as it competes in the new century against an emerging China.
Michael Crichton has been vindicated.
Michael Crichton Speeches
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/index.html
“Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century”
Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
November 6, 2005
“Testimony of Michael Crichton before the United States Senate”
Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2005
“The Impossibility of Prediction”
National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Janaury 25, 2005
“Science Policy in the 21st Century”
Joint Session AEI-Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
January 25, 2005
“Environmentalism as Religion”
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
September 15, 2003
“Aliens Cause Global Warming”
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
“Why Speculate?”
International Leadership Forum, La Jolla, CA
April 26, 2002
“Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media”
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, CA
January 25, 1999
“Mediasaurus: The Decline of Conventional Media”
National Press Club, Washington D.C.
April 7, 1993