My sister-in-law says "global warming is bullshit!" Michael Crichton

[RadicalMom]

wrote a book about it, you see, so all the scientists who've been dedicating their lives to this problem couldn't possibly have any validity. Someone get me a drink, please.

[alittlelark]

1. The only scientists that get MSM time are questioning it.

The other 99.99% are screaming, but no one will listen (ie: give them MSM airtime).

Uh, and don't you know that SCIENCE IS EVIL ???

[tavalon]

2. Your sister-in-law

Doesn't seem to be very smart or at least inquisitive. It's really a shame that Michael Crichton cashed in on his fame to push this stupid agenda. He's welcome to his opinion, flawed though it is, but his fame encourages the less than critical masses to take up his stupid ass point of view. A point of view that, as you know, isn't supported in any way, shape or form by the science.

[AZCat]

3. Here are some recent GD threads on Crichton's book

Why are other scientists so sure Michael Crichton is wrong?

INHOFE using Michael Crichton's fiction book as fact on the Senate floor

A response to Michael Crichton's poo-pooing of Global Warming

Oh..uh..about that "Global Warming" thing


That should be enough for reference - we went around the block a few times about that here.

[RadicalMom]

4. Thanks1 I'll dig through those.

[babylonsister]

5. Wow. I'm reading Crichton's "Travels" book, and I

guess it's because I liked a lot of his other books. And I'm enjoying it! I have heard his next book has something to do with/against the Catholic church? And global warming is bullshit? This man is very smart, and a scientist, but :shrug:

[Seabiscuit]

10. Michael Crichton isn't a "scientist".

He earned a medical degree from Harvard, but never practiced medicine. Even practicing doctors are not "scientists". The practice of medicine is as much "art" as "science". Perhaps more accurately described as a form of technology.

While at Harvard Medical School he took time off to travel around the Mediterranean, where he began writing fiction, deciding on return he'd rather write than practice medicine. I know because I was at his house in New Canaan, Connecticut in late summer, 1964, after my first year of college, when he made that decision (I attended Junior High School and High School with his younger sister). Nevertheless, he did complete medical school.

His first published novel was a work of science-fiction and all of his books are either pure fiction or science-fiction.

He's been a writer for about 40 years now. He has never been a practicing doctor, and has never been a scientist.

Only scientists are qualified to conduct "scientific research".

He is not specifically trained in fields that have to do with global warming (and since I am not either, I deem myself unqualified to comment on it).

He was a very likable guy (and very tall) and I have nothing against him personally, but 40 years have passed since I saw him and I must say I'm disappointed in some of the interviews he's given concerning, and articles written about him, regarding his current political/pseudo-scientific opinions.

[zann725]

6. I think we're seeing some evidence of it RIGHT NOW in L.A.

The last two weeks or so, we've had the heaviest rains I can ever remember here...and they are NOT quitting. Really starting to concern me. Same thing in Tahoe mountains, but with snow. It reminds me of that movie about global warming last year (can't remember the name).

That plus the Tsunami sweeping through country after country. If our media wasn't so locked-down, I think we'd find out about more weather irregularities occurring now.

[RadicalMom]

11. "The Day After Tomorrow" is the movie. I'm near L.A., too,

in Ventura County. We have water problems we've never had. Flood in our living room. Keep adding more sandbags. The water is bad enough that the ranch owner where we keep our horses near here had to evacuate all the cattle today, as their area was worse than where our horses are. Was almost as bad where he moved them, about 12 miles from here.

[ET Awful]

12. Agreed on the rainstorm, but I would exactly consider an earthquake

triggered tsunami to a be a "weather irregularity."

[RadicalMom]

16. "Earthquakes are caused by people in the earth," I was once told

by an intelligent person one time. But she said they "weren't people like you and me." She was a mystically inclined person, and actually so am I, but she certainly came up with concepts which were "not in my philosophy." Of course, neither were the shrooms.

[Maple]

7. Point out to her

that while his other books were also entertaining...none of them were true in the end either.

He writes fiction. Books to read on holidays.

[RadicalMom]

8. I said to her, "he's a FICTION writer," and she said that he backs

up all his books with scientific research. Oh, yeah, she's a hardcore repug, but doesn't come out and admit it, saying she's a "CAPITALIST," which she threw at me when I told her I'd voted for Kerry. I never intentionally discuss politics with her because she only has correct opinions at all times. No foolin', she'll never give an inch. I had no idea she was opinionated on global warming, too.

[Lorien]

9. "Research" paid for by Exxon-Mobil?

my Geologist friend, who has studied climate change in Antarctica for 40+ years, disagrees with the uber-rich fiction writer.

[ET Awful]

13. Good, then ask her why nobody's used amber fossilized insects to clone

dinosaurs yet, and why we haven't found any spacecraft from the future at the bottom of the ocean.

Oh, and those big white gorillas trained to guard Solomon's mines, ask her about those too.

[flvegan]

14. Darby Conley's "Get Fuzzy" features a talking dog and cat.

Get her one of those books, and completely blow her mind. Yes, sis, dear...they can talk. Don't yours? No? That's bullshit!

[RadicalMom]

15. LOL! She wants to go back to school to be a librarian...If she believes

everything in books, why not the global warming stuff.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. My sister-in-laws are nutcases, too. Republican nutcases to be

exact. Their husbands were no better. One didn't believe the ozone was depleting and that skin cancer was a problem until his mother has half her face scraped off for melanomas. And he only got concerned because, well, that kind of susceptibility is inherited. The Christian nutcases are the worse.

[slor]

18. Ask her for a swig of her drink...

that is, if you like Kool-Aid.

[hedgehog]

19. The Terminal Man was all about epilepsy and it was all wrong.

I remember reading it years ago and being disgusted that a Harvard medical degree was wasted on somebody so ready to spread harmful myths. He writes a good story, but don't trust his science.