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"While Crichton paints scientists full of hubris causing death and destruction, threatening our entire way of life, he himself is setting back the public perception of not only individual branches of science but of science itself. And he has the gall to think he understands the science better than the scientists doing the work, at least in the case of global warming; he lectured to packed crowds and advised politicians about his skewed and incorrect views all the while claiming the working climatologists doing the work had the skewed and incorrect views."

—A great article on Michael Crichton, science fiction, and breaking out of the SF “ghetto”.