Brought to Book
Crichton doesn't like the idea that someone else is better placed to make judgments than he is. He seems convinced that global warming is largely an invention of careerist scientists abetted by a partisan press.A skeptical review of Michael Crighton's latest book, in which the villians are alarmist environmentalists.
And he seems to find something smug and stifling, if not dishonest, about consensus: "the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus", he says. "If it's consensus, it isn't science." --Philip Ball
--Brought to Book (Nature)
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