i bet crichton had a good old time fantasizing those scenarios. ...

See, the President pays attention to (hack) science (fiction writers), when considering decisions that affect - er, real science after all!

Reminds me of the story of hack fiction author Mikhail Crichton, who offered me $20 and a signed copy of "Jurassic Pork" if I'd let him suck my dick in the Port Authority restroom.

That story, of course, is pure fiction.

Well it's good Crichton didn't tell Bush there were WMD's in some MidEast Country...

Did anyone expect any less from a right-wing nut-job...even one able to write?

"Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer."

Uh, you think being falsely branded as a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer is WORSE than being fictionalized as a child rapist?

made up the whole thing from "their sick, twisted imaginations."

Seems to be rather self-descriptive of Mr. Crichton, don't you think?

TC - I think it was meant as a joke.

My father-in-law, the guy who drives around in a big black mercedes, with vanity plates reading something to the effect of OIL LAWYER gave me (the evironmental science major from berkeley california) that idiotic anti-global warming book as a christmas present a few years ago. My husband assures me he didn't do it to piss me off...

I strongly think Michael Crowley should sue.

What a petty little man Crichton is.

Yuck.

Uh, you think being falsely branded as a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer is WORSE than being fictionalized as a child rapist?

Why, yes, of course it is. One screws a few kids, the other screws everyone, including kids. It's a question of quantity. :-)

What a childish ass. Can the right wingers ever grow up, or are they all trapped in the seventh grade?

Pathetic, and duly noted.

Michael Crighton is still writing books? I seriously had no idea.

I think this is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard. Anyone who uses depictions of child rape, even fictitious child rape, as a weapon to besmirch someone else's reputation is a vile, amoral person. I was almost physically ill reading about the damage done to the toddler. To think that Crichton would make up such a horrible image just to hurt someone else makes me think that if I ever meet him, I'm going to spit in his face.

Wow, Crichton is an asshole. I will never read any of his books again and will notify my bookclub about this incident. This is absolutely disgusting.

If all bookclubs spread the word, we will turn this asshole writer into a nobody again.

Why is it that the only people that fantasize about raping little boys are Republicans?

Good thing Crichton’s not a candidate for Senator from Virginia. The republican nutjobs would be up in arms over his authoring of this child pornography.

I see a contest, though probably only open to columnists and pundits. Who can be the next person to be written up by Crichton in retaliation for a bad review and will they be presented as a character worse than a child molester? Come on, guys, let's see those harsh critiques of Crichton writing and politics get out there in print!

Just wondering how many of you who are so quick to diss Crichton have actually read Crowley's 3700 word article? I haven't. How much do you know about Crowley? I only know what I've read here and in Crowley's article outting himself as Crichton's pseudo-fictional character. In other words, I simply don't know enough about the word war to pick one side over the other.

I did read State of Fear but before it was denounced as an anti-global warming screed and before so many jumped onto that bandwagon -- just like so many of you are doing here.

My take away from reading State of Fear was that there are groups of people (media, pr, ngos, even some scientists) who will deliberately distort and misuse science and other facts to manipulate public opinion, some for financial gain, some for fame, some for altrusim and some because they aren't very bright. Crichton was railing against these groups and junk science not global warming per se. He must have really hit a nerve considering how much he has been vilified since the book came out.

Crichton's little word war with Crowley seems sort of juvenile but I've enjoyed too many of his books to just accept Crowley's side of the story.

I see Crichton's PR firm has shown up. Nice to see you Marian.

Crowley's issue aside...So the fantasy writer that brought us Jurassic Nonsense thinks he's a climate expert? Seriously. The hack who penned such pulp garbage as Disclosure thinks he knows more about the earth's climate than say, um let's see, real scientists? Wait, let me see if I have this right. The dude who wrote about super monkeys in the Nobel worthy Congo is now a climate expert?

My take away from reading State of Fear was that there are groups of people (media, pr, ngos, even some scientists) who will deliberately distort and misuse science and other facts to manipulate public opinion, some for financial gain, some for fame, some for altrusim and some because they aren't very bright.

Dear Marian,

I'm a librarian. We file "State of Fear" in the fiction section of the library.

"Fiction". Lokk it up in a dictionary.

Marian, you cannot be serious. What is Crowley's side of the story that you are not going to "just accept" because you've enjoyed too many of Crichton's books? That Crowley is not a child rapist?

If you are serious, it means the terrorists have won.

"My take away from reading State of Fear was that there are groups of people (media, pr, ngos, even some scientists) who will deliberately distort and misuse science and other facts to manipulate public opinion, some for financial gain, some for fame, some for altrusim and some because they aren't very bright. Crichton was railing against these groups and junk science not global warming per se. He must have really hit a nerve considering how much he has been vilified since the book came out."

Even if all of these things were true, it doesn't matter. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that global warming is real and is happening. Science fiction writers can't change that, but they can dumb down the debate enough that it confuses people and prevents coalitions from forming to demand action and accountability from our government. The oil companies do the same thing, and it is depressingly effective, as most Americans don't have time to wade through the facts because they are focused on getting the kids to school on time or whatever.

Such writers can also gain access to the most stupid of our leaders and persuade them of the wisdom of their continued inaction, which is also sad but not surprising.

I wonder how many people would be calling Crichton a "hack" writer if he was instead an advocate of global warming theory. I'd suspect quite a bit less. Sure, he may be an amoral, incredibly stubburn human in person, but that has no effect on his writing ability.

A lot (not all) of people posting on this article seem to be overly ignorant.

MICHAEL CROWLEY GOT PWNNNNNNNED!!!!!!!!!!!

EAT IT COCKMONGER

Google Bomb.

I agree these are mostly ignorant comments. Crichton's State of Fear has been misrepresented by so many that those who never read it now think he's some kind of Global Warming denier. He's just another person who points out when scientists jump to conclusions - such as when cigarette smoke is said to cause lung cancer. The reality is not that it doesn't, the reality is there is no definitive proof or even way of tying the infinite causes of something to the effect. There is far more natural pollution (for example ever heard of the Blue Ridge mountains? That's naturally produced pollution) than man made and just because he disputes people are so sure of what they think is the cause of global warming doesn't make him an idiot, it makes him a critical thinker, obviously something a lot people here know nothing about. Bush? People are actually linking Crichton to Bush? What is that how you get people to jump on your side by associating them with the president? How jr high.

alan mckinley: "I wonder how many people would be calling Crichton a 'hack' writer if he was instead an advocate of global warming theory."

Anyone whose ever read his lousy pulp fiction of late. The fact that the man leverages his celebrity to espouse and peddle crackpot pseudo-scientific nonsense -- in a field of which he is hardly literate let alone an expert -- only aggravates the situation.

To be fair, Michael Crichton was a very good novelist before fame and fortune got to him in the 1970s, accompanied by increased pressure by publishers to churn out engrossing potboilers, a la "The Andromeda Strain" and "Coma".

In short, Crichton bacame a "hack writer" by succumbing to the crass commercialization and marketing of selling his art.

"Disclosure" turned out to be one of the silliest pieces of twaddle I'd read in years when I picked it up. For all the supposed showcasing of the high-tech world in which it was set, the story was at once anachronistic and misogynist, and further relied on a number of very shopworn and clicheed literary devices to move it forward, i.e., the conveniently open office door through which the main character eavesdrops upon a conversation they should not otherwise be privy to.

The author was clearly banking on the power of his name alone to sell a "piece of art" that had all the charm of a tacky and garish paint-by-numbers set piece.

I think that this happens to most brilliant and talented persons who become commercially viable and/or successful in their field of choice. On the political left, author Norman Mailer comes most readily to mind. And in another example, the acclaimed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis at the end of his career bears little resemblance to the musical genius who recorded the brilliant "Sketches of Spain" - it's like he just put the trumpet to his mouth and blew random notes.

If Michael Crichton ever decides to try and recapture the lost magic, he should retire from public life (at least temporarily) rent a place in some remote small town, and rethink what he's all about -- because right now he's just another dime-a-dozen tawdry celebrity, and certainly not an artist.

Crowley should sue Crichton for defamation. Perhaps in England. In any case, there are probably plenty of attorneys who would take this case on a contingent fee basis - as Crichton has some seriously deep pockets - the asswipe.

You people are forgetting one very important fact. Its a book, ment to intertain, nothing more nothing less. but you cant get over that, you are doing just what that artical wants you to do, start up rumors and talk about his new boook. you are advertising for him. I for one have allways liked his books, and as of this will get his new one and enjoy it too. thanks for the heads up

The problem I have with Crichton (besides his terrible science) was how he tried to have it both ways on State of Fear. When scientists criticized it, his response was something like he's just a writer. Then, he goes and talks to Bush and other politicians like he's some kind of expert.

On a side note, it's interesting that it is Michael Crichton that has made me interested in anything that The New Republic has said lately.

First off Global warming is a real thing. Live in denial all you want. Second you got PWND. I think its funny, and btw the world is round if you missed that one also.

9/11 was an inside job

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/911.html

"The next page contains fleeting references to Crowley as a "weasel" and a "dickhead," and, later, "that political reporter who likes little boys." But that's it--Crowley comes and goes without affecting the plot. He is not a character so much as a voodoo doll. Knowing that Crichton had used prior books to attack very real-seeming people, I was suspicious. Who was this Mick Crowley? A Google search turned up an Irish Workers Party politician in Knocknaheeny, Ireland. But Crowley's tireless advocacy for County Cork's disabled seemed to make him an unlikely target of Crichton's ire. And that's when it dawned on me: I happen to be a Washington political journalist. And, yes, I did attend Yale University. And, come to think of it, I had recently written a critical 3,700-word cover story about Crichton. In lieu of a letter to the editor, Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer."

The man's name is Michael Crowley, he fits the Mick Crowley profile perfectly, and the guy needs a Google Search to figure out that he is who Crichton is talking about?

And to most of you Crichton is the idiot?

No wonder you people believe in Global Warming and that all oil reserves will be exhausted by the late 1970s.

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I wonder how many people would be calling Crichton a "hack" writer if he was instead an advocate of global warming theory. I'd suspect quite a bit less. Sure, he may be an amoral, incredibly stubburn human in person, but that has no effect on his writing ability.
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He's a hack. He's the definition of a hack. He is fully capable of writing good material (witness some of his early stuff) and instead churns out volumes of crap because it sells better and is faster to write. He has all the literary staying power these days of a man-high mound of shaving cream in a hurricane. If he were a liberal, he'd still be a hack, but he wouldn't be a hack who is talking to the president of the United States.

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Why berate Crichton for saying Global Warming doesn't exist, when there's posters right here saying "First off Global warming is a real thing."? Their lack of expertise doesn't seem effect you.
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Because Crichton is fully capable of convincing readers of his books that he is right, and is in fact doing so as enthusiastically as possible, all while all the credible scientists in the country are saying that global warming is real, human-caused, and a clear danger to human life. Unless you believe that a few million people are reading this blog and are going to be swayed by a badly-proofread one-sentence statement, you can't put them in the same category.

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I'm a strong supporter for Global Warming
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Really? I'm against global warming, myself...

-fred

Jack: I think you missed the day the word "sarcasm" was introduced into the dictionary.

David G: Yes, I have "allways" found Crichton's "boooks" "intertaining" too, and will read him no matter what "articals" say.

If the overwhelming wits and intelligence of these Crichton defenders has anything to say about the intelligence level of his readers...

"all while all the credible scientists in the country are saying that global warming is real, human-caused, and a clear danger to human life"

As somewhat already touched on, all the credible scientists in the country also claimed gas could run out in the 1970s. Now what are we shooting for? 2040s? They were off by...70 years? Wonder when the next revision will come...

What scientists say is hardly credible in such controversial instances. They shouldn't be descridited per se, but only taken as a possibility; scientists have their own agendas, and depending on what they believe and who's backing them, their conclusions can be whatever they want. I also like how these people citing research projects happen to ignore the projects which discredit Global Warming. I think just the fact that it could be real is enough to try and stop it.

I feel weird arguing against my own beliefs, but its just too hard for me not to choose the side with less baffoons (that's not directed at you, Fred).

"The man's name is Michael Crowley, he fits the Mick Crowley profile perfectly, and the guy needs a Google Search to figure out that he is who Crichton is talking about?"

ummm... are you really that tone deaf that you can't read tongue-in-cheek???

perhaps you've read too much crichton. just a guess.

Is all of Micheal C's writing that dull?

Crichton is the Mel Gibson of Sci0Fi writing

I would sue his a**

True, people who believe in global warming are no more scientists than the ones who disbelieve it. The difference is, they acknowledge this fact and therefore listen to the scientists, while the deniers actually think that 99% of climate experts are wrong, and talk radio show hosts are right. This is what is arrogant and foolish about the anti-global warming movement

This is a perfect counterpoint to my upcoming novel which mentions in passing a famous, climate change denying novelist who is eventually eaten by rabid weasles. I think his name is Bob but I'd have to check the manuscript.

I love the part in his book where Crichton has the librul lawyer pleading the case for a child rapist in the press (librul too, no doubt). I thought you could only find charicatures like this in Mallard Fillmore.

Crichton is spot on. These global warming wackos need to be bitch slapped. That includes every bleeding heart liberal wimp traitor out there.

Why don't you go slap them uber? You seem to be just the lil' bitch to do it.

Crichton is the Mel Gibson of Sci0Fi writing

That would be Orson Scott Card and his homophobic rants.

Plus, his novels never go anywhere.

Oops last post was by TC

get a life ... the "Crowley" name was used for negative or ambiguous characters by a couple more fiction writers. It might have been unfortunate for those who have to live with this name in real life if the readers were unable to distinguish between published fiction and real life.

The perfect gift for your global warming skeptic friend for this Christmas and beyond. :::[Global Cool Watch: Mug a Global Warming Skeptic]

Because, for some people, words are not enough.

Hmmmm ... this wouldn't be the same Michael Chricton who wrote Disclosure, a novel where the basic premise is people's lives can be irrepairably damaged by accusations of sexual abuse even if they have no basis in fact, would it?

Does anyone read Crichton anymore? I mean, who cares about his politics, because he's a terrible writer.

Sorry to disagree, but both Andromeda and Jurassic were boring and terribly written. They guy is a hack.

Monica,
It seems that a post written by me in hast wile trying to finish a report has come under fire. Wile I agree that misspellings are not something that should have been there, damn back off. As for my intelligence or the intelligence of his readers, who are you or any of you to judge? Then man writes books. He writes good books at that. He sales then and makes a shit load more money than any one posting here. I do not think that this is a debate about global warming or about abuse. It is a bunch of jealous, whinny little people who can't think of anything better to do than bash on someone who wrote a book. If you do not like it don’t read it, it is not that hard. Put the book down and move on to more productive things like removing your selves from the gene pool and thus doing the world a favor.

I find all these posts, for the most part, entertaining but in the end I just don't care that much. I read "Andromeda Strain" when it first came out (what was it, like 30 years ago?) and found the premise to be entertaining but the writing style somewhat dry. I've never had the desire to read another one of his books since....

Chrichton is a mean bastard.

He not only lies about sexual preferences and investment strategies, but he also stole my intelligence, insulted my sister, shot my bible, and raped my dog.

For a second there I thought that was a picture of Michael Palin, not Michael Crichton. I guess they do look alike...

Gosh, I've been waiting for years to say this to someone, and now I've found the perfect excuse in Crichton's petty but evil deed--

Michael--sue the bastard!

I wonder where crichton draws these deep sick fantasies from?

Does he have them himself?

Sorry about the mistakes in the previous post. I forgot a c, and said by when I meant my. My apologies. Urgh. That's what you get for ranting without spellcheck.

Did I just completely undermine my authority?

ahh.....the sweet smell of vengance

Well, it's always fun to have some exemplar's anecdotes to call upon in literary conversation. Congratulations, Crichton. You've bumped out the longstanding champion on my list to earn the rank of #1 asshole contemporary writer.

Maybe I'm just angry because I'm usually a good judge of character and this dickhead sailed under my radar, because, damn it, I _liked_ the Andromeda Strain.

I liked The Andromeda Strain when I first read it, though the fact it was published when I was twelve may be a factor. But the prime evidence of Crichton's hackitude has to be Timeline. If you haven't read it (and if so I suggest you keep it that way), it involves time travel back to the 13th century or so. I read it in paperback, and I dearly hope I got it from a second-hand bookstore, and therefore didn't add to Crichton's royalties. I remember thinking, I paid money to read a book length movie treatment? What got me was when our heroes were being sent back in time to fulfill their mission. His description of what it looked like was not just an obvious description of a visual effect but -- and this is clear to anyone who grew up watching Star Trek -- a description of a cheap visual effect. Cheap, cheap, cheap!!! Look, Mr. Suit, this won't cost much at all!

It was clear to me who his real target audience was, and it wasn't anyone who would actually buy the book, but those who would get it forwarded to them from the script development department.

Incidentally, it was made into a movie. And the movie sucked big time.

Yeah, that was a good one. I also liked the one where the Discovery 1 spent months traveling to Jupiter, and then HAL found the crop circles and reported back to Mulder and Scully.

Or when Luke and Han in the Millenium falcon blasted the hell out of the Enterprise. Kirk was so upset.

Come to think of it, I did see that one. But I had to edit it together myself to see it.

Well, if this doesn't make everyone take Michael Crichton's views on global warming seriously, I don't know what will.

I guess we shouldnt consider the discourse nor the written word of Sir Winston Churchill because he believed there was a world wide Jewish Conspiracy. I guess what Thomas Jefferson wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is meaningless because he had slaves. I guess nearly everything that anyone has ever said, done, or commented on should be considered irrelevent because of blemishes to their record.

The fact is as follows: Yes, this was terrible, but being a group of patronizing jackles hecking him and criticizing what he has written and what he has said based upon this is stupid. Not only have to leveled yourselves to his level - that of name calling - but you neglect one specific aspect: last time I checked, none of you have created as much successful works.

Moreover, none of this means what he has said about the Scientific Community nor the iffy evidence about global warming holds no wait. I think this entire "community" needs to get off their high horse and realize that people do stupid things when they become heated and should look at what men and women have written without jaded eyes.

And for the record, I believe global warming exists, that humans are the cause of it and that it is destroying our planet. However, I also believe that science and the Scientific Community has become a "religion" in its own right, and that it is corrupt and fucked.

Not all "historians" believe that the Holocaust took place, as shown by the recent "academic conference" in Tehran. It took about a generation for a consensus on contintal drift to develop among the scientific community. Having one or two holdouts doesn't make them right and everybody else wrong. Chricton's backers are (surprise) operating under Hollywood logic: you know, where the one sole lone voice cries out that a giant comet is coming to destroy the earth and no one else believes him, but he knows he is right and is proven to be right? Just because you scream loudly while no one agrees with you doesn't mean your opinions hold any merit. Since when does consensus mean that every single of the thousands of scientists in the world must agree, as opposed to an overwhelming majority?

I hope the author reads this, cause i gotta say what an utter idiot he is.

"...Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer."

Perhaps worse, whats worse than being a child rapist? damn your morals are screwed.

Maybe crighton wasn't wrong, when you look at proffiteering as worse than child rape

Oh yeah, saying statements like 99% of scientists believe so and so, means nothing. 50% of america believes the world is 6000 years old, consensus means nothing, evidence everything.

Why don't you just keep on calling him a petty whatever, yada yada. I bet it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. What, do you all think you're better than Crichton? And you're all in agreement, just feeding off of each others' BS. That sure makes for an interesting blog, right? In a discussion there should be opposing points of view, otherwise there is no substance. If someone has already said what you feel, say something else or be quiet; no one wants to read the same thing over again. Its a waste of time.

While this sort of thing has a long tradition, google has shifted the balance of power and MC can easily be taught a lesson.

Michael Crowley fancies himself to be the only Washington-based, Yale graduate, political journalist in the world to have written a critical review of Michael Crichton, since he is not an heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. The majority of posts following his disclaimer assume that Dr. Crichton is a right-winger.

Does Dr. Crichton know this? His political donations have been to democrats and the Democrat party. True, he has a brilliant educational background. True, he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology. True, he was then a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at Oxford before returning to Harvard to get a degree in Medicine. And he is probably the only medical student who ever found time to pay his way through MEDICAL SCHOOL, for crying out loud!, by writing books! Books good enough to win him an Edgar Award. All of that makes him a filthy rich right-winger?

Mr. Crowley. Tsk, tsk. No one expects you to be a detective, but when you write a positive assumption that you are the model for a "voodoo" character in Michael Crichton's latest novel ... What would be the point? Not another soul would have guessed it to be you until you revealed yourself. I recommend another kind of M.D. A psychiatrist could write a prescription for the delusions and paranoia that trouble you. Aside from that, don't publish where dozens of strangers will see you.

P.S. My brother, an oil-refinery optimizer and a PhD in his own right, agrees with Dr. Crichton on global-warming. Every couple of thousand years, it's gonna happen. I'll take the word of brilliant scientists whose work is their OWN, before a Vanderbilt university drop-out's. ;)

windy in wv: Michael Crichton does all of his own research. He was not Sen. Imhofe's "star witness". He was one of several witnesses.

On another topic, Michael Crowley is entirely unqualified to judge Michael Crichton's competence to write on global warming. Crowley has no credentials in science. Dr. Crichton, on the other hand, knows quite a bit about science, about consensus science (I have a PhD, you have a PhD, what you said sounds good to me so lets say it's true), about the rules for conducting scientific research, and he did that kind of research for a couple of years with Dr. Jonas Salk, of Salk polio vaccine fame. He is an insatiable reader and constant researcher.
Few here display the ability to evaluate each other's statements, much less the caliber of thinking and writing that Michael Crichton does. And someone who calls him a "hack" writer, in my opinion, is not accustomed to thoughtful (much less scientific) writing or the carefully and closely reasoned plots in a Crichton story.

The first Crichton book I read was Andromeda Strain, and I hated it because I didn't like the ending. I never read another Crichton book until I picked up State of Fear. The level of writing in that book was astonishingly superb and rich. I couldn't wait to read everything else he wrote. I didn't like some, but I REALLY liked Disclosure, Airframe, Rising Sun, Jurassic Park, Lost World, Congo, and others. I have not found any of the Crichton book-based movies satisfying, but that is not Michael Crichton's fault. The screenplays, for the most part, were written by others, and I do not think that many (if any) screenwriters could write a script as rich and satisfying as one of Dr. Crichton's books.
Michael Crowley, in the end, shows himself to be the dumbest man of all. He chose to designate himself the very nasty minor character in a Michael Crichton novel. He admits to having many similar or identical characteristics as the fictional character, but he denies only one thing. He denies that he is heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. "Heir", people, not "profiteer". However, and this is really interesting, Crowley never did deny suffering from micro phallus.

Why does this indicate stupidity on Crowley's part? If, as he says, Michael Crichton wrote the "voodoo doll" part to exact vengence for his article, then Crowley's response to what Crichton wrote told EVERYONE, especially Crichton, that his arrows had struck their mark and exactly how much they hurt. Crowley gave Crichton full satisfaction and a barrel full of laughs. That is, if Crichton actually was writing about Crowley as Crowley insists he did..... undenied hors d'ovres weenie and all.

Why don't you just keep on calling him a petty whatever, yada yada. I bet it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. What, do you all think you're better than Crichton?

Yes. Oh yes, I really do.

While I don't doubt that Crichton might enjoy putting an inside joke into a novel, I simply doubt that he had the time.

If he did do it, it was a petty thing to do, but funny none the less.

Oh my God.

"In lieu of a letter to the editor, Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer."-Michael Crowley

Mr. Crowley:

I'm not even going to get get into the whole "Crichton is right/wrong" and global warming issues.

What I cannot understand is how you can even try to "perhaps worse yet" compare a CHILD RAPIST to any of those pharmaceutical demons.

You lost any support from me by comparing the highest form of evil to that lesser (and more financial form).

Shame on YOU!
-Dawn E. Pelazza

Gina R. seems to think Michael Crichton is a competent scientist. I have given a page of 'Jurassic Park' (the one with the graph on it) to undergraduate students to see if they could spot the five blunders on the one page (e.g. you can't have fractions of dinosaurs). Although his books are 'sciency' his grasp of science is weak and, as a scientist, I find his depictions of scientists to be very stereotypical.

All I know of his fictionalization of Crowley is what I've read here, but from it Crichton comes across as a thoroughly nasty individual.

it´s ok. Michael Crichton´s books aren´t that good, especialy after jurassic park. Now they suck, along with his writing. His stories are just movie fodder.

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Hey, it's all about public tension, fear and lies. Environmental fear is a multi billion dollar industry. Check this Time magazine article from a short 30 years ago:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914-1,00.html

C'mon greenies - what's next? flip, flop, flip, flop...

Interesting reading all these more and less-educated Rants here...

It seems that few above understood the intention and design of the novel "State of Fear".

We need some contrarian positions, to review the same data so many doomsayers proclaim will end our planet. THIS IS GOOD! Discussion between people will slowly ramp up the collective awareness, and someday, maybe 20+ years from now, we'll know whether Global Warming is from the dreaded hydrocarbon, or naturally cooling/warming of our multi billion year old planet.
Remember Gaia is a giant Buffer, the old gal can take and process a lot of atmospheric abuse!

btw, Why is no one campaigning as China intends to start almost 600 dirty-Coal based energy plants which will double current Carbon outputs in less than 20 years??

http://discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/clean-coal-technology/

Maybe like Michael touts... We just don't know yet ...

Crichton has answered to Crowley's distasteful attacks in a pretty elegant fashion with this story. It describes Crowley's ethical values pretty well although the details are modified when translated from the real world to the realm of fiction: Michael Crowley's inability to resist the temptation to write disgusting ideologically-driven lies about Crichton is translated into Mick Crowley's inability to resist the temptation to do something with the boy. But the essence is very analogous.

Can you please inform me if you have written 30 books? You can contact me at the above email address.

Thank you.
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Darw1nf1sh, your posting on Dec. 21 is spot on! Indeed concensus is not science. I think the danger is believing that we know for fact as much as we think we know. There is no factual proof that global warming exists(nor that second hand smoke causes cancer), yet we are inundated by fearmongers into believing we need to take drastic action preventing these things. That is the real message of Fear - the danger in misdirected mass misperception.

Unlike you, I am conservative to the core, but strongly agree in living the cleanest way we can and using resources the most effective and efficient way possible and always striving to do better using less and creating less waste. Common sense!

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Ah yes, the fools and imbeciles come out to play. Now, let's see here, most of you talk about how Crinchton is a "hack" writer but he has produced the best fiction peices the half of the century, Jurassic Park, the Lost World, Rising Sun, most of you just hate him because your vocabularies are just on par of a three year olds, maybe four if you can spell write. Now what MC did couldn't be called right but still, you critize the man because he actually put up an arguement on Global Warming which many of you people found your heads exploding, aka: wtf!111! tat biatch lye!!!1! global warnig do exsit11! Please stop listening to the media and read a real book for a change, sorry folks picture books are out of the question. For once, the man provides a bibliography in the back for a damn reason, you don't believe him look up the facts yourself, but most of you don't go to your locale library so that may be a problem.

Think of it this way, Child rapist or pharmacuetical beneficary, as compared to Hitler or Stalin. Everyone Will agree that the first of both sets is pure evil, but has anyone ever stopped to think about the other?

Hitler was genocidal, but so was Stalin and soviet Russia lasted far longer than Nazi Germany, and commited far more atrocities, but no one stops to think on that do they?

In the same manner a child rapist will rape only so many children in his/her life, because hey women do it to. People just tend not to think about women doing such sick things. Now when you come down to it, think, how many people can afford medications? Drug companies dont just rape little boys, but they rape little girls, teenage boys and girls, women and men, everyone! As does insurance.

Crichton is right to say that a pharmaceutical industry profiteer is worse than a rapist, because it will maybe make some people less ignorant than the greater portions of posters here actually sit down to take a good look at the drug industry. Because I wonder; How much does my Lamictal really cost to make, package, ship, and make a nice, not extreme, profit for all groups involved? Probably, only 25% of what I pay for, Because I pay 150 dollars a month for my pills, and who to blame for this? Why, the pharmaceutical companies.

Also, who are you to criticize Crichton? He is only expressing his opinion, venting his thoughts and frustrations, showing his feelings, Crichton is human, just like most of us here. Where is it wrong to show human emotion? Where is it wrong to write fiction?

If your Christian than I completely understand, and only wish you would take your blinders off.

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Dear Sir,I can't believe that Mr.Crichton is 'being attacked'for writing a book of fiction!Wow!I also read his book;State of Fear,back in the summer of 2005,and found it to be very good!I also have enjoyed;The Andromeda Strain,and a book written in the early '60's;A Case Of Need.Actually,one of my favorite's!Now,I'm reading;Rising Sun,and then,after that;AirFrame.From;BetsLoo/Des Moines,Iowa/P.s.My advice;don't like the book?For Pete's sake!There's a lot of other book's you can buy out there!

Just noticed that my home page needed correcting. Cheers, Dan.

Crichton is a bestselling, skilled novelist and killing off the physicist in the first chapter was brilliant. I wish I'd would have copied that plot poitnt, but his understanding of climate science is pure wingnuttery. I didn't copy that either to my credit. Eco-terrorists and false science isn't the problem. Denial of reality is. The clock is ticking. Drip... drip.

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I think you guys need to chill, Hes a good writer if he got you thinking then he did a good job no? although his latest book 'Next' sort of lacked the quality his previous works had. His works are fiction and should be taken as such no one said what he was writing was the truth, no matter the persons personality his material was decent, state of fear got me thinking how much of a grip the media has on our way of thinking. I think that was the main message and global warming just happened to be the topic to deliver it with

I wonder why Crowley would want to highlight his pedastry by calling further attention to it like this?

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"global warming denier"? it seems to me that that word is gaining the connotations of holocaust denier everyday.global warming is a debated issue that needs full research. as for this fictionalization,
it is exactly that. more than i can say for michael
moore, who takes it a step further and calls his work "documentaries"

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You people here on this website are all uncivilized Idiots! Im not going to get into my views on global warming or any political things because, frankly, I don't care enough, but I am apalled at people bashing upon someone in this barbaric fashion! you should all be ashamed of yourselves! Anyway, While I did not like his two books as musch as the older ones (not for political reasons), they were still good, and his older ones like the andromeda strain, sphere, and jurassic park were really good! You people here have probably not read every one of his books like I have, and therefore have no room to critisize. If this is type of people that come to this website regularily, then I am definatly not coming back, and if not, then I suggest that this website cleans up the riff-raff before it gets out of control (or at least more out of control than it already is)! DO you know why no one listens to you and your left-wing party? Its because you make fools of yourselves like this! Now, dont get me wrong, I am not saying all left wing people are wrong, Im just saying there are lot of people like the people replying to this article, who bring down the rest of the left-wing people with this kind of stupidity. Now, I am done here due to the fact that I am DISGUSTED by the people here and do not wish to have my own intelligence lowered by talking to them!

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Now, 1: get some relevant points, down the all emotion thing, save that for the people you love, 2: also please no added, I repeat ADDED mudslinging, I mean if you're pissed with good reason, fine, but if you're pissed and your copying them at the same time, you sad, sad, sad little fool, you forgot how to properly speak for yourself, once you've relearned, come back, and be greeted with open arms, and 3: Crichton isn't an asshole, he was just momentarily stupid, something nobody hasn't taken part in, so don't be to overly hard on him, be hard, but not overly hardly, also be sure to actually no something about Chrichton and Crowley before you actually type anything, okay. Now I'm done nothing else to say, really, so bye.

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The sex posters make far more sense than the Crichton apologists.

The latter are victims of a well-known problem in inept, ignorant people. The thing they have tended to be most ignorant of when studied is their own ignorance and inability. They judge themselves, and their (Amadeus version) Saliari-figure hero Crichton by inaccurate standards, and lack the ability to question those standards.

Against Crichton cultists the gods themselves contend in vain.

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