No, the world of science, the professional world of science that is, is as corrupt and tainted as the field of journalism, only more hidden from view.

Well, he dared. And look what it got him: a quiet, say rather, ignored departure from the farce known as 21st Century America. Well, maybe that's for the best.

Because in ten years from now, or fifty, or a hundred, folks will still be reading his books, watching his movies, and enjoying his television stories. He will continue to inspire others to become doctors and scientists and writers, even.

I don't think anyone will be reading old issues of Parade or Time or Newsweek and be inspired to be any part of that Lost World, do you?

Well, he dared. And look what it got him: a quiet, say rather, ignored departure from the farce known as 21st Century America. Well, maybe that's for the best.

Because in ten years from now, or fifty, or a hundred, folks will still be reading his books, watching his movies, and enjoying his television stories. He will continue to inspire others to become doctors and scientists and writers, even.

I don't think anyone will be reading old issues of Parade or Time or Newsweek and be inspired to be any part of that Lost World, do you?

this past month I watched Andromeda Strain, again, love it holds up very well and shames the new TV movie which was poorly done in every way

then watched Disclosure, great fun, hear the book is even better

and listened to the audiobook of state of fear ( recommend it to any believer, they will change their mind)

what is amazing is his prescience, the technology in Andromeda that has come to pass is so cool but even better is that Al Gore is now on the climate CRISIS bandwagon just like in state of fear, in fact exactly like, and the explanation about going from global warming to climate change to climate crisis, is exactly what happened, Al Gore is in crichtons script ( except for precipitated the climate disasters…. I hope).

love to site, thanks Christian , love in dennis Miller too)

He said it happened when he and his daughter were held at gunpoint by burglars. It occurred to him then that the world does, in fact, have plenty of evil people in it and they must be controlled. At that point, with his daughter in mortal danger, he decided that liberalism’s kid gloves approach to such people was disastrous.

He further alienated Hollywood’s liberal set when he published “A State of Fear,” not one of his best novels but chock full of actual climate change research. (The appendix alone is worth the price of the book.)

The Hollywood superstar character he portrayed in the novel was shallow, narcissistic, uneducated, and held opinions based primarily on what he either had just heard from someone else or based on the latest talking points fed to him by some environmental NGO. In short, the character was like about 80% of Hollywood’s current leading men who stupidly lend their celebrity credibility (is that an oxymoron?) to murderers like Castro and Chavez and to causes that seem warm and fuzzy without examining them beyond their names.

He offended so many people in Hollywood and in the MSM (another theme in the book) that had he not already had such a successful career, he would have been relegated to the margins immediately.

Crichton had two Harvard degrees – Anthropology and medicine. That alone made him a real anomaly in Hollywood where it seems to me that most actors and actresses who think they actually have something profound to say in support of ultra-liberal causes are the kinds of pretty boys and girls I knew in high school who were popular just because they were pretty. Come SAT time, most of them learned they were going to have to learn a trade or trade on their looks.

He stuck a knife into too many exposed nerves and those who wanted to diss him knew they didn’t stand a chance in a face to face debate with the man. He would have made apparent their shallowness and ignorance.

One of the few ways they could retaliate was only after he could no longer respond.

Just one more reason I’ve come to loathe ultra-liberal Hollywood.

Keep up the good work, Big Hollywood. You are now one of my permanent bookmarks for daily reading.

RIP Michael Crichton. You are sorely missed.

That the shallow leftists -(who inhabit the fantasy lands of Hollywood and academia where reality is whatever the consensus in the cocoon needs it to be) – rejected a man of substance like Michael Crichton, is a great compliment to him. He knew who they are and what they stand for and they can’t deal with anyone knowing that.

“I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. ..” ~ Michael Crichton

To read more, click link and scroll down to “Environmentalism as Religion” Remarks to the Commonwealth Club by Michael Crichton, San Francisco, September 15, 2003 http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.html

RIP Mr. Crichton. Your worthwhile contribution to this world will stand you in good stead for all eternity.

But his prose and command of English were without equal in our modern times. He knew how to work every level and angle.

Point is, Crichton will endure, which is perhaps more than you can say for many of the newspapers which chose not to honor his memory for the most petty political reasons.