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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
I'm a huge Crichton fan, but he's full of bunk on this one. Just like his take on nanotechnologhy was pop-science crap I think he misses the mark on this one by a huge margin. The scientific community is laughing at him and his approach. One meterologist described his approach of writting an idea on a bar napkin and thinking that it will stand up to the light of scrutiny. Crichton writes entertaining fantasy, with the key on fantasy.
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Yes. I posted the links in another thread, but the basic scoop on Chrichton is that his book is widely discredited as science.
A good way to think of it is like
Jurassic Park. Is there science in that book? Sure.
Is it science? Hardly.