Michael Crichton's new book right wing propaganda

Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest tells us that Michael Crichton's new book, State of Fear is something we should avoid. Crichton paints environmentalists as a bunch of crazed hypocrites. It's direct from the Right Wings playbook.

[. . .] In Crichton's ham-handed novel, the dangers of global warming are nothing but a lot of hype: scare scenarios, promoted by shameless environmentalists eager to use bad science to raise money and draw attention to their cause. The ludicrous plot revolves around efforts by radical members of an environmental group called NERF (National Environmental Resource Fund) to trigger a series of natural disasters, including a giant tsunami that would hit California with 60-foot waves. These disasters would be timed to coincide with the group's big media conference, thereby awakening the public to the dangers of climate change wrought by global warming.

Don't give this tool of the Right Wing any of your hard earned money.