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To me, that's part of why it's so scary. I actually found "State of Fear"
to be boring compared to Crichton's other books. But the whole way politics
and money manipulated the public in the name of scientific fact can be
extrapolated to many other arenas. We've been conditioned to believe when
the magic word "scientist" or "science" or "scientific method" or
"scientific study" is used, to accept what follows as writ-in-stone solid
fact.

>At  6/5/2005 10:48 AM, you wrote:
>>I did.
>>An interesting departure from his other tomes.
>>An NPR review I heard pre-release said Crichton had intended to write about
>>what the world would be like WHEN global warming happened. The evidence
>>didn't support it, so he wound up writing about political influence on
>>"scientific fact". Scary.
>
>Hadn't heard that before... My thought was the basic theory of using fear
>as a tool to help manage the people.
>It appears to work...
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>> >Anybody but me read "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton?
>> >
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>Rob
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>becida AT comcast.net
>Western Washington State, USA
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