Michael Crichton, he of Jurassic Park, has now penned a novel screed which uses fake science to “debunk” global warming and when he gets called on it he reacts much as all neoconservatives and modern day reactionaries react when faced with factual rebuttals of their absurd claims…he engages in a visceral and vicious personal attack against his accusers (which apparently is the only substitute available when facts don’t fit).
Michael Crowley, a political reporter who debunked all of Crichton’s spurious claims in a piece in The New Republic, has now been named, specifically, in Crichton’s new novel as a child rapist.
How lovely. Methinks Crichton, like much of neoconservatism and present day right wing corporatist thinking, has gone completely around the bend. This sort of thing is purely nuts and certainly not the behavior of someone with any morals or integrity of any kind.
If Crichton (or O’Reilly or Malkin or any of the other crazies who engage in this sort of character assassination regularly) had any integrity at all or any actual science of facts of any kind to support his original position, then he wouldn’t have any trouble replying with that information to his critics. But attacks like this by people like Crichton et al are simply more evidence that they have absolutely no fact behind their positions and little personal integrity. One would think that someone who is supposed to be fairly smart, as people often misguidedly think Crichton is, would recognize that simple reality and not stoop to such attacks.
But such is the state of today’s rabid, extremist corporate brand of conservatism that such frothing at the mouth is considered, by them, as reasoned discourse and legitimate responses to criticism.
Keep it up Crichton, the more you do this the more of a fool you make of yourself.