41. Who Owns Your Body | Speaker Biography You, or someone you love, may die because of a gene patent that should never have been granted in the first place. michael crichton, writing in The New http://www.whoownsyourbody.org/m_crichton.html

Speaker Biography "You, or someone you love, may die because of a gene patent that should never have been granted in the first place." - Michael Crichton , writing in The New York Times MICHAEL CRICHTON Michael Crichton (Website) is a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. His most recent novel, Next, about genetics and law, was published in December 2006. Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. He has taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University and writing at MIT. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, acknowledged the world was growing warmer, but challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios. He predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C. (His conclusions have been widely misstated.) Crichton's interest in computer modeling goes back forty years. His multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, was published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966. His technical publications include a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton's first bestseller, The Andromeda Strain, was published while he was still a medical student. He later worked full time on film and writing. Now one of the most popular writers in the world, his books have been translated into thirty-six languages, and thirteen have been made into films.

42. Michael Crichton On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online michael crichton also writes under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson. There are 291 conversations about michael crichton s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/crichtonmichael

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Jonathan Exley / Exley Photo 1 picture add a picture Author: Michael Crichton Also known as: Michael Chrichton Michael Chricton Michael Creighton John Michael Crichton ... Michael Crichton Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Disambiguation Notice Michael Crichton also writes under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson. Books by Michael Crichton combine/separate works Jurassic Park : a novel 3958 copies, 43 reviews Timeline 3095 copies, 40 reviews The lost world : a novel 2276 copies, 15 reviews Prey : novel 2236 copies, 48 reviews Sphere : a novel 2170 copies, 20 reviews The Andromeda strain 2059 copies, 21 reviews State of Fear 2036 copies, 44 reviews Congo 1827 copies, 16 reviews Airframe 1695 copies, 19 reviews Rising sun : a novel 1330 copies, 12 reviews Disclosure : a novel 1174 copies, 9 reviews 1141 copies, 13 reviews Next : a novel 1110 copies, 52 reviews The terminal man 843 copies, 13 reviews The great train robbery 713 copies, 3 reviews

43. News Archive - The Earth Institute At Columbia University michael crichton’s new novel “State of Fear” is about a selfimportant NGO hyping the science of the global warming to further the ends of evil http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story12-13-04b.html

var GB_ROOT_DIR = "/js/greybox/"; The Earth Institute Directory Columbia University Home Research ... Get Involved Earth Institute News Archive Press Room Press Releases News Archive 2007 News Archive 2006 ... Media Resources posted 12/17/04 Contact: Gavin Schmidt gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov by Gavin Schmidt, Earth Institute climate scientist and RealClimate.org contributor In a departure from normal practice on the RealClimate.org site, this post is a commentary on a piece of out-and-out fiction (unlike most of the other posts which deal with a more subtle kind). Michael Crichton’s new novel “State of Fear” is about a self-important NGO hyping the science of the global warming to further the ends of evil eco-terrorists. The inevitable conclusion of the book is that global warming is a non-problem. A lesson for our times maybe? Unfortunately, I think not. So for actors and lawyers everywhere, I will try and help out. The issues Crichton raises are familiar to those of us in the field, and come up often in discussions. Some are real and well appreciated while some are red herrings and are used to confuse rather than enlighten. The first set of comments relate to the attribution of the recent warming trend to increasing CO . One character suggests that, “If CO

44. .: U.S. Senate Committee On Environment And Public Works :: Minority Page :. The audience also applauded a call by novelist michael crichton to stop the hypocrisy of environmentalists and Hollywood liberals by enacting a ban on http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_i

45. MichaelCrichton.com | Q & A With Michael Crichton: Travels Q A with michael crichton Travels Do you still believe or participate in the spiritual experiences you had in Travels? What is your take on your views http://www.michaelcrichton.com/qa-travels.html

ABOUT MICHAEL CRICHTON Biography FAQ Autographed Books Overview ... Andromeda Strain SPEECHES Overview Genetic Research Complexity Theory Senate Testimony ... Mediasaurus ESSAYS Overview Patenting Life Bodysnatchers 2006 This Essay Breaks ... Panic in the Sheets VIDEO Overview IQ2 Global Warming Charlie Rose: NEXT NEXT Viral Marketing ... Charlie Rose: Disclosure FOR YOUNGER READERS Crichtonsaurus bohlini MESSAGE BOARD Message Board Posting Rules PRESS Information Speaking Requests HOME Print This Page ... Email This Page Do you still "believe" or participate in the spiritual experiences you had in Travels? What is your take on your views then, in todays world? Such as talking to plants, seeing/healing/ cleansing auras, spoon bending.... I respect your work so much but, I guess one needs to experience spoon bending himself to believe it! No, I have not continued that interest very much, but I tend to drop a topic once I finish a book. I felt satisfied with what I had learned. My mind hasn't changed, in the years since. Of all the things I wrote about, spoon bending seems to stick in the rationalist throat. It just bugs people. I don't know why. I don't know why spoon-bending occurs. I have no explanation. I can't describe it any better than I did in the book. But I have no doubt that it occurs. More than seeing adults bend spoons (they might be using brute force to do it, although if you believe that I suggest you try, with your bare hands, to bend a decent-weight spoon from the tip of the bowl back to the handle. I think you'd need a vise.)

46. On Michael Crichton. my prior post on michael crichton, I wrote about how Mr. crichton had taken the time to evaluate the computer models that have led so http://www.mathoda.com/archives/118

mathoda.com the art and observations of Ranjit S. Mathoda Home About Me Contact Me Favorite Quotes ... Videogame wars redux. On Michael Crichton. February 27th, 2007 As Michael tells Charlie Rose ( http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.html ), his survey of the evidence indicates that humans have had a strong influence on CO2 levels, have resulted in the temperature of the world increasing slightly, but also that the level of impact humans have had to date is fairly negligible, and that computer models are completely unreliable as tools to predict weather for the next 5 years, much less the next 100. He points out that all of the global warming crisis talk is driven by long term projections done through computer models with unverifiable assumptions modeling something that is supremely complex to begin with. Kind of like the Bush administration trying to predict what the budget deficit will be in 2030. Tags: tech Alex Peake // Mar 1, 2007 at 1:58 pm http://cdfe.org/religion.htm // Mar 2, 2007 at 8:32 am Alex: If you want to refute an argument, it is generally more effective to:

47. The My Hero Project - Michael Crichton michael crichton is my hero. He is so smart. He has the most vivid imagination I have seen in an author. The books, Jurassic Park and The Lost World opened http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Crichton

48. Interview With Michael Crichton -- ReadersRead.com After graduating from the Harvard Medical School, michael crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Called the father of the technothriller http://www.readersread.com/features/michaelcrichton.htm

Featured Sections Advertise The A-Lists Author Directory Award Winners ... Subscribe Reading Sections Book Publishing News Children's Books Comics Fantasy/SF ... Romance Text Ad Links Your Ad Here Site Information Advertise Feedback Linking to us Homepage ... RSS Feeds Interview With Michael Crichton (November, 2002) After graduating from the Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Called "the father of the techno-thriller," his novels include The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park , and Timeline . He has also written four books of non-fiction, including Five Patients, Travels , and Jasper Johns His books have been translated into thirty languages and twelve have been made into films. He is also the creator of the television series ER . He is the only person to have had, at the same time, the number one book, the number one movie, and the number one TV show in the United States. Always interested in computers, Crichton ran a software company, FilmTrack, which developed computer programs for motion picture production in the 1980s; for this pioneering work he won an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award in 1995. His film Westworld was first feature film to employ computer-generated special effects.

49. News & Events- Find Out Whats Going On. An Afternoon with michael crichton In Collaboration with The Smithsonian Associates michael crichton, megaselling author and creator of the modern http://www.complexsys.org/news.htm

Your presence at the conference impacted significantly and for that I extend my personal thanks. David P. Fridovich Brigadier General, USA Commanding Click here to begin slide show Click here for video segments of the entire event ! ... PODCAST ! Crichton Event Announcement Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View News Releases Events/Announcements Book Announcement The Third Lens: Multi-ontology Sense-making and Strategic Decision-making http://www.strax.tkk.fi/lens.htm , is now available from Ashgate Publishing www.ashgate.com The Third Lens is written for 21st century strategists, people and organizations, who struggle daily with multiple co-existing ontological, epistemological and methodological discourses. T. Irene Sanders, executive director of the Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, is co-author of the chapter, Sensitiveness to Initial Conditions: Reconceptualizing Cause Creating a Sustainable Future in a Complex World On October 27th Irene Sanders, the Center's executive director, will participate in a symposium being sponsored by The Smithsonian Associates and the Institute for Defense Analysis. She will talk about the impact of complex systems research on the role of foresight in intelligence analysis and intelligence-led policy development. For more information visit:

50. Critique Of "Prey" - Chris Phoenix michael crichton is very, very afraid of technological progress—again. Reason.com December 11, 2002 Are crichton s horrific fantasies based in reality? http://www.nanotech-now.com/Chris-Phoenix/prey-critique.htm

Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.nanotech-now.com Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home Introduction Articles Chris Phoenix Don't let Crichton's Prey scare youthe science isn't real By Chris Phoenix - January 2003 (Chris Phoenix is co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology In order to explain what's wrong with the science in Prey , this review contains spoilers. I magine a horror story about baseball, in which the batter keeps hitting the ball hard enough to kill the fans. The story might be entertaining, but it's obviously unrealistic. Suppose further that at one point in the story, the author writes about someone walking back to the dugout after three "fouls." Does the author not know the difference between a foul and a strike, or was he simply in too much of a hurry to bother getting the words right? Either way, no one could learn the rules of baseball from that story. Even if it was mostly right, a few wrong facts make all the differenceespecially if the reader does not know which facts are wrong. Prey contains comparable exaggerations and mistakes in science. A scanning probe microscope and an electron microscope are basic tools of nanotechnology, and they're not even remotely similar. Yet Crichton confuses the two, on page 133. He also confuses piezoelectric with photovoltaic. And he writes about a nanobot that's "one ten-billionth of an inch in length." This is the size of a single atom, not a whole robot. But these are simple errors; the flaws in his nanotech run deeper.

51. Media Matters - Flouting Scientific Opinion, Stossel Promoted Michael Crichton's ABC News 20/20 coanchor John Stossel used a report on novelist michael crichton s new book, State of Fear (HarperCollins, December 2004), http://mediamatters.org/items/200412170002

Media Matters for America Search this site Advanced Search Search Go You are not logged in. Login Sign Up Home Issues/ ... Donate Thu, Dec 16, 2004 7:50pm ET Send to a friend Print Version Flouting scientific opinion, Stossel promoted Michael Crichton's global warming skepticism ABC News co-anchor John Stossel State of Fear report commissioned by the Bush administration began Stossel started his December 10 The Day After Tomorrow . This movie was mocked by scientists, but serious people are worried." While scientists found the events depicted in The Day After Tomorrow a nightmare scenario in which global warming causes severe and sudden weather that ravages North America to be implausible, as the Associated Press reported , many embraced it as an opportunity to increase awareness about global warming. And "serious people" including scientists were worried about global warming long before the film was produced. concluded in 1996: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." A 2001 IPCC report recalled this earlier finding before noting: "Three of the five years (1995, 1996, and 1998) added to the instrumental record since the SAR [the 1996 report] are the warmest in the instrumental record of global temperatures, consistent with the expectation that increases in greenhouse gases will lead to continued long-term warming."

52. Think Progress » Journalist Critical Of Climate Skeptic Michael Crichton Writte Bestselling novelist michael crichton is a vocal critic of global warming . If michael crichton believes the science of Global Warming is junk let him http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/14/crichton-critic/

@import url( http://thinkprogress.org/sites/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/themes/thinkprogress1.6/style.css ); Think Progress Hot topics: Iraq Media Administration Congress ... Economy Journalist Critical Of Climate Skeptic Michael Crichton Written Into Crichton Novel As Child Rapist Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a vocal critic of global warming science. His 2004 novel State of Fear depicts global warming as a hoax concocted by environmentalists to raise money in near-total agreement Next graphic excerpt The real-life Michael Crowley is also a Washington journalist and also graduated from Yale. could not be reached yesterday for comment TPM Muckraker has more Filed under: Culture Global Warming Posted by Nico December 14, 2006 1:30 pm Permalink Comment Sort Comments By: Top Rated Date kudos, mr. chrichton. how is life on the dark side? 1:36 pm this as his role model, he never stood a chance. Kudos to Crowley for being so gracious, but Crichton needs to be sued, if only as an object lesson. 1:37 pm 1:37 pm Michael Crichton is a tiny man. 1:37 pm I will never look at Jurassic Park in the same way.

53. Crichton, Michael | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books michael crichton (1942). There s something about my writing that people find controlled or contrived. I find I really don t have much choice about what http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-49,00.html

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54. Michael Crichton News - The New York Times News about michael crichton. Commentary and archival information about michael crichton from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/michael_crichton/in

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Saturday, January 26, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... C > Crichton, Michael E-MAIL Save Michael Crichton News about Michael Crichton, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES Newest First Oldest First Page: Up the Mountain Slowly, Very Slowly By TOM BISSELL In the noble footsteps of the Chagga tribe and Michael Crichton, another pilgrim goes manfully up Kilimanjaro, the one big summit a mere mortal can reach on hands and knees. October 28, 2007 Read Any Good Books Lately? June 3, 2007 Dear Dan Brown, All Eyes Are on You By JANET MASLIN Thanks, Dan Brown. Look what you started. In the sound-like-Brown genre the stakes are high, the scruples are absent and the copycatting is out of control. February 16, 2007 Genetic Park By DAVE ITZKOFF January 7, 2007 Inside the List By DWIGHT GARNER December 17, 2006 By JANET MASLIN November 28, 2006 HarperCollins Steps Up Its Presence on the Internet By MOTOKO RICH The publishers Browse Inside program will let readers see excerpts of its authors books on its Web site.

55. Michael Crichton: A Who2 Profile A specialist in sciencerelated thrillers, michael crichton wrote some of the most popular mass-market novels of the 1980s and 1990s. http://www.who2.com/michaelcrichton.html

@import url("http://www.who2.com/css/standard_gamma.css"); Find Famous People Fast! Who2 FAQ Who2 Blog For Students Contact Who2 Browse by Name: A B C D ... Z Michael Crichton Writer Filmmaker A specialist in science-related thrillers, Michael Crichton wrote some of the most popular mass-market novels of the 1980s and 1990s. He attended Harvard and trained as a doctor; before graduating from medical school he had already written the best-selling thriller The Andromeda Strain (1969). Later he wrote hit novels like The Terminal Man (1972) and Rising Sun (1992). He also directed several movies, including the film of his own 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery (1979, with Sean Connery ). Crichton's popularity boomed in the 1990s, when his book Jurassic Park was made into a hit movie by director Steven Spielberg . Crichton also created the Emmy-winning TV series E.R. His 2004 novel State of Fear questioned the scientific validity of global warming, giving Crichton a reputation as a climate change skeptic; in 2005 he testified before a Senate committee and had a private visit with President George W. Bush

56. States Of Fear: Science Or Politics? In discussing not just environmental issues but the increasing politicization of science itself, bestselling author michael crichton examines the http://www.independent.org/store/events/crichton.asp

STORE Books Institute Books Non-Institute Books The Independent Review Subscribe Order Back Issues Events Ticket Reserations Audio and Video Policy Reports Membership Search Advanced Search Ordering Offline Prefer to order by phone? Call toll free 1-800-927-8733 in the United States. Call 510-632-1366 outside of the United States. Fax orders and requests for bulk quantity quotations to 510-568-6040. Printer Friendly Email to a Friend The Lighthouse Our weekly E-Mail Newsletter Subscribe Unsubscribe Your participation will advance liberty. Become an Independent Institute member The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way, Ste. 200 Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax Send us email Washington Office 1319 18th St. NW Washington, DC 20036 Interested in working with us? Click here for more information. States of Fear: Science or Politics? Featuring: Michael Crichton and a Panel of Distinguished Scientists Moderated by David J. Theroux 117 minutes DVD ISBN 1-59813-007-2 Such theories were pushed by powerful interest groups that possessed highly politicized agendas driving government policies and public opinion, until ultimately both theories were disproved. Is environmental debate today, including global warming, bio-technology, and other issues, based on science or politics? Are popular accounts of such issues rooted in science or phantom risks? Are government policies focusing on the trivial while ignoring the real, and in the process wasting limited resources, crippling human innovation to address true dangers, and inviting tyranny?

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58. Michael Crichton Interviews With Don Swaim michael crichton is interviewed by Don Swaim of CBS Radio. http://wiredforbooks.org/michaelcrichton/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interviews with Michael Crichton Michael Crichton, M.D., author of The Andromeda Strain Congo The Great Train Robbery and Jurassic Park , talks with Don Swaim in 1983 about Crichton's two computers, and the false illusion that only kids can learn a computer. Listen to the Michael Crichton Interview with Don Swaim, 1983 (18 min. 56 sec.) Michael Crichton talks in 1987 about computer advancements, and his novel, Sphere , which includes many references to computer programs and codes which can be difficult to translate to other languages. He also discusses the pros and cons of writing novels verses screenplays. Listen to the Michael Crichton Interview with Don Swaim, 1987 (22 min. 38 sec.) In this 1988 interview, Michael Crichton sidestepped away from his usual kind of novel to write Travels , which is about his own experiences traveling, and is in some ways autobiographical. He decided to write the book as a personal challenge to himself. In his own opinion, the most difficult book to write is a book about personal matters. Listen to the Michael Crichton Interview with Don Swaim, 1988

59. BookPage Interview michael crichton s byline on a book has been bankable since The Andromeda Strain. He is the biotech and polisci-fi equivalent of Stephen King. http://www.bookpage.com/BPinterviews/crichton392.html

Look who's talking in BookPage Bob Adams John Berendt Larry Bond Po Bronson ... Michael Connelly Pat Conroy Michael Crichton Annie Dillard John Dufresne Umberto Eco Lolis Eric Elie Nicholas Evans Richard Ford Carlos Fuentes Diana Gabaldon Tipper Gore Katherine Graham ... Elizabeth McCracken Jay McInerney Walter Mosley Han Nolan Kem Nunn Robert B. Parker Brenda J. Ponichtera Annie Proulx Mario Puzo Kathy Reichs ... Rebecca Wells Children's Authors Mary Chapin-Carpenter Caroline B. Cooney Paula Danziger David Diaz ... Gary Paulsen March 1992 BookPage visits with Michael Crichton Is Michael Crichton a Japan-basher? Xenophobic? Worried? No. No. Sort of. Interview by Eve Zibart M ichael Crichton's byline on a book has been bankable since The Andromeda Strain . He is the biotech and poli-sci-fi equivalent of Stephen King. But considering the reviews and interviews concerning his latest techno-thriller, which explores the labyrinthine corporate finagling of a Japanese high-tech firm in Los Angeles, Rising Sun (Alfred A. Knopf, $22.00) might have better have been named Rising Storm. "It's been the most disturbing experience," says the alternately perplexed and angry novelist, whose war-of-the-worlds thriller was rushed into print ahead of its March Book-of-the-Month-Club date. "That's three times I've heard 'yellow peril.' Some people seem to think that I have overstepped some boundary of good taste, that we only ought to make nice-nice with the Japanese. They equate criticism of the nation of Japan with criticism of Asian people. It's narrow-minded, muddy-headed thinking."

60. The Top 10 Conservative Idiots - The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 272 Meanwhile, Answers In Genesis (5) ride Jesus horses, michael crichton (7) has .. michael crichton received a fair amount of criticism for his 2004 novel http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/272

Latest Greatest Lobby Journals ... Journals Advertise on more than 70 progressive blogs! The Top 10 Conservative Idiots The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 272 Posted by in Mon Dec 18th 2006, 01:18 PM The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 272 December 18, 2006 Let's Hear It For The Soy Edition Welcome to the final Top 10 of 2006! Before we get started this week I'd like to direct your attention to Democratic Underground's year-end Charity Donation Drive. We're raising funds for America's Second Harvest, the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the country. Please take a look at this thread and consider making a donation. Okay... on with the show! This week Jim Rutz (1) tells us all about the Soy Agenda, George W. Bush (2) has a secret plan for Iraq, and the good ship Donald Rumsfeld (3) sails over the horizon. Meanwhile, Answers In Genesis (5) ride Jesus horses, Michael Crichton (7) has child porn fantasies, and Bill O'Reilly waxes philosophical about cupcakes. Enjoy - and for all of you who missed it the past couple of weeks, the key is back!

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