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The man who brought dinosaurs back from the Land of the Lost, Michael Crichton, has passed away at age 66. He died of cancer. A nice obit should be forthcoming.
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Holly’s daddy died?
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If I remember right, he was an MD.
His books, in addition to being well written and thought provoking, were generally well based in a foundation of good science from which he was able to spin out his fiction, He also resisted the urge to go with the popular flow of opinion where it was not well grounded.
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My wife will be very sad to learn this. Michael Crichton was one of her favorite authors.
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Bianca, I think I’m the only one to catch your allusion.
Yes, he was a physician who let his ER experiences provide story fodder for the eponymous TV show.
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Thanks, Sawgunner!
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One of my favorite authors, too, starting with The Andromeda Strain.
Crichton was excoriated over the past few years for daring to question the Core Doctrines of the High Church of Man-Made Global Warming. Contrary to his critics, Crichton did not say global warming conclusively did not exist, or that we did not cause it. As a physician and scientist, he merely suggested that the present proof of both was lacking and/or skewed, and asked for better proof of both (his 2004 novel State of Fear lays out this argument).
As a result, Crichton was assailed by (among others) that Church’s Pope Algore I as a heretic.
Reminscent of those who deign to question the Holy Book of Radical Fundamentalist Evolutionism, and who have met the wrath of Ayatollah Dawkins.
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By the way, for anyone who has read Beowulf (haven’t we all been forced to read it at one time or another?), Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead is an interesting re-telling of the Beowulf story, told from the viewpoint of a captured Muslim prince living among the Vikings. A fun and quick summer read.
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#6 should read: “As a result, Crichton was assailed by the Church of Global Warming’s Pope Algore I (among others) as a heretic.”
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