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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Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond
Adaptation Limits
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This is a re-post from World Weather Attribution
A catastrophic rock-ice avalanche that transitioned into a debris flood in
the Himalayas along the Nepal...
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