Hypocrite auteur

Michael Crichton recently wrote an article in PARADE entitled "Let's Stop Scaring Ourselves." This is, in part, because his new book, State of Fear is basically one long argument that the worries over global warming are overblown. This from a man who argued that "genetic engineering will bring about the end of the world" (Jurassic Park), "nanotechnology will bring about the end of the world" (Prey), and "weird viruses will bring about the end of the world" (The Andromeda Strain).

I'd be a little more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, of course, if he were actually a better writer; Crichton wields subtlety like a sledgehammer. Unfortunately, since it's likely to show up at TRASHionals, I'll probably end up actually reading the damn thing at some point.