The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    IPCC Clusterfrak

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 1:13pm |

    Those of us who actually read the late, great Michael Crichton's State of Fear understood that its main point was that there are people and groups who will go to great lengths to manufacture causes and crises for personal profit even to the point of corrupting Science.  That corruption was his biggest concern which is why he included a factual addendum to a work of fiction on some of the junk science being used by climate change activists at the time. 

    I think we all remember how thoroughly Crichton was demonized by the activist community for daring to challenge their 'good' work.  It is really a shame that he died before seeing some vindication of his thesis in the current IPCC Clusterfrak.  Because he is not here to say, "I told you so" I am saying it for him.

     

     

    Comments

    You get the Boiled Frog Award.


    by AJM (not verified) on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 6:42pm

    Why? for noticing the parallels between the plot of State of Fear and the IPCC mess? for calling attention to it? Or maybe you are presuming that because I did those that I am a climate-change denier?


    by Emma Zahn (not verified) on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 10:33pm

    I appreciated knowing about this, Emma. Especially in how you did it, by linking to a google search so that people can check it out for themselves.

    Nothing aggravates me more than propaganda in service of a good cause, especially when it reaches levels of necessitating conspiratorial work; I just want to scream "lord help them for they know not what they do!" The blowback doesn't always come immediately, sometimes it might take years or decades, but eventually it always does and in very serious ways. Number one is the terrible blowback in cynicism or mistrust of important and good things.


    by artappraiser (not verified) on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 10:41pm

    You're welcome and thanks for the support. I learned about it from Walter Russell Mead's blog which I only just discovered after his recent spat with Matt Yglesias about something else, in case you are interested.


    by Emma Zahn (not verified) on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 11:17pm