On Radio 4's Last Word the geneticist Steve Jones said the novelist Michael Crichton, who died last week, went 'beyond the limits of science but that is what science fiction is about'.
But Jones said that in his 2004 novel State of Fear, which attacks the idea that humans contribute to climate change, Crichton took on an anti-science agenda.
'It's science as he would like it rather than science as he imagines it and good science fiction doesn't turn on the science it turns on the imagination.'
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Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of
global collapse
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Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant
larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives
An underwater experiment to resto...
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