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| more on State of Fear | | Date Created: Feb 27, 2005, 12:10 PM |
Michael Crichton's State of Fear is a far bigger depth charge in the sea of liberal controlled politicized science than the Larry Summers dustup at Harvard, but sometimes it takes awhile to gather a perfect media storm. In fact, the limousine liberals and fanatical environmentalists that are skewered in Crichton's book are better off to ignore it like they tried to do with Bernie Goldberg's first book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News .
But Crichton will not go away and the media reflexly fawns over blockbuster authors regardless of the quality of the work or what it says. This book will almost certainly get made into a movie for the same reason. They can't help it. It will make money.
So while we're waiting for this to play out, here another review to check out. It's by Robert Zirkelbach and it's in the latest Townhall.com which I highly recommend.
Oh, and if you're interested in pulling the emperor's new clothes off the enivironmentalist religious fanatics like Crichton did, you might want to check out an essay that dropped a depth charge in a more scientific forum (the Environmental Grantmakers Association). It's called, The Death of Environmentalism -- Global warming politics in a post-environmental world by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus and came out in Oct, '04. |
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