Thread by @drskyskull

I’ve enjoyed Crichton’s work, but I’ve long recognized that almost all of his novels are about how science is bad and doesn’t work.

https://twitter.com/alexriesart/status/1477244946994262016

Crichton’s most pro-science novel was probably The Andromeda Strain… where the story ends with the virus mutating all by itself to a harmless strain, with the scientists doing nothing, and the scientists almost nuking themselves.

One could argue that he was just telling a good story… until his 2004 novel State of Fear, where he basically declared global warming a hoax and portrays people trying to fight climate change as terrorists.

Basically, Crichton was a gifted storyteller who possessed ignorant and dishonest views of science and scientists.