Bad enough to actively fulminate against global warming, but turning critics into fictionalized child rapist seems a little unhinged.
TPMmuckraker December 14, 2006 11:45 AM :Global Warming Denier Michael Crichton Fictionalizes Critic as Child Rapist
The battle between anti-global warming activists and their critics is frequently uncivil. Name calling, put downs, you name it, they fling them.
But this marks a new threshold, I think.
This March, Michael Crowley wrote a cover story in The New Republic hitting blockbuster novelist Michael Crichton's very public denials that global warming was a proved phenomenon.
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And that's when it dawned on me: I happen to be a Washington political journalist. And, yes, I did attend Yale University. And, come to think of it, I had recently written a critical 3,700-word cover story about Crichton. In lieu of a letter to the editor, Crichton had fictionalized me as a child rapist. And, perhaps worse, falsely branded me a pharmaceutical-industry profiteer.
Class act, no?
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Crichton is a good-looking bullshit artist. For years, he's passed off overblown thrillers as "science fiction" and indulged in crypto-misogyny. This is really nothing new; this is just the first time that someone's had the guts to call him on it.
And it did take some guts. Crichton is actually a fairly powerful figure in NY "literary" circles, and not just as a function of how much money he rakes in for his publisher: He tall, good-looking, well-spoken, and has powerful friends -- he's "truthy", in short, so who gives a shit if he's right?
So his friends will take up the attack for him. The NY Times has alreacy begun.
Thanks for the link, Eric. Here's the permalink too.
I'm not familiar with his work, other than films I've seen.