Michael Crichton - Unpopular Truth

[JamesTKirkCobain]

"No one can predict the future".....I can. Liberal psychopathic scumbags like Al Gore will get richer as more and more countries scam the public about this global warming BS. Just as a side note: Remember, the percentage of CO2 in the earths atmosphere is only 0.04% which you can literally call ZERO POINT ZERO. To say that a necessary gas for all plant life on earth is dangerous at 0.04% is insane.Plus CO2 does NOT cause global warming Water vapor does! It's how Venus became a greenhouse planet.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

He was a great man and I feel really bad he died so young. Writing books is one hell of a lot of hard work, especially the type he wrote which takes massive research, and the dude is rewarded with an early grave. Yet Courtney Love and Keith Richards live on. Go figure.

[Jpkingu2]

@JamesTKirkCobain I applaud your comment. The good die young.

[iboneic13]

No one can predict the future.

[diogotomediogo]

Penn and Teller discuss these subjects on their bullshit series

[seppsters]

Just found a new reason to like Michael Crichton

[HardforJesus]

"The planet's not going anywhere. We are!" - George Carlin

[Heteroz]

he looks tired

[Heteroz]

Secondhand smoke is harmless?, it was direct smoking that killed him.

[Heteroz]

Environmentalism is not and never will be a religion. A religion is the belief in a supernatural being. He likes being in the spotlight and being controversial even if it means fabricating lies.

[seppsters]

@Heteroz

You don't know what a religion is, rofl.

[pretorious700]

@Heteroz Sorry, your definition is ignorant and superficial. Environmentalism fits most criteria used to define religion as a "faith". Try thinking instead of blindly reacting, it's a more evolved way of living.

[spanishprisoner]

@Heteroz and then why are you nodding to the ones who say we are the cause of global warming? do you know the facts? if 5 scientiests in a room can't come to a reason for this, how can you?

[BloatedSensations]

@Heteroz Putting aside the fact that your definition is demonstrably 100% bullshit - he made it more than clear that he was speaking to the idea of religion from a strictly anthropological viewpoint, and not some colloquial usage of the term.

[Heteroz]

whats that spot on his forehead?

[Heteroz]

Cigarette smoking as a religion!

[tjieff]

most kids, educated in Gov schools, are already zombies by middle school, 99% clearly cannot grasp what he is saying, Michael is brilliant, his intelligence would be lost on most college students too

[GanjikaAranyaka]

michael crichton is the shit. i hate that he's dead, iv read most of his books when i was like 12...younger than these kids..havent ever read any of his non-fiction material though

[Jpkingu2]

@GanjikaAranyaka Read 'Travels'.

[GanjikaAranyaka]

@Jpkingu2 -i just started reading The Stand so i'll check out Travels after...although im new to Stephen King, i just like Michael Chrichton's writting so much more..its not as corny..its actually really "matter of fact"

[RzzRBladez]

wow, watch this ppl, brains at work.

[Thag20]

State of Fear has a great message: We can preserve the environment without using the guise of climate change to do so.

His books are always so well researched that you learn while hearing a great story. One of the saddest days of my life was when i realized i would never get to read another story from his brilliant mind. RIP Mc

[MrPizzaToppings]

@Thag20

There's another book coming out in September that he started but some other guy finished. Not sure how good it's going to be but, hey, it's worth a chance I suppose.

[DOMuricu]

I'm an environmentalist, but I recognise the validity of what Chrichton is warning about in theinterview. Can't argue against his reasoning.

[mikeboosh]

lmao, I guess Crichton was a pedophile cause he just bent over that dumb girl. I hope that girl felt like the idiot she is while the camera was pointed at her. I wonder who indoctrinated her with the democratic talking points.

[MegaPostman77]

I agree with the first comment. These kids are awe struck P.S. is there such a thing as a different viewpoint? Typical of the establishment; groupthink GALORE! We desperately need more independent-minded individualists in this world and less TEAM PLAYERS. Everything in the ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IS AN EMERGENCY! There has to be an impending disaster for them to justify their miserable, self-righteous existence. One DISASTER TO THE NEXT TO THE NEXT TO THE NEXT TO THE NEXT TO THE NEXT AND TO ....

[mikgazda]

What is the title of that book he mentioned? Thanks

[MadBrainBox]

@mikgazda The book is called "State of Fear".

[DexterHaven49]

The questions are pregnant with false assumptions. loaded, and false!! He made a mistake not to reject them. Hey bitch, he's not "prejudiced," a pejorative word of disapproval with negative connotations!! You've already convicted him. He is smart to see it as a religion if it meets the tests and markers of one. That's not prejudice, bitch. That's reason and logic. Q for her: What caused you to be such a a smug liberal airhead who sees everything through your emotions? Liberal students suck!!!

[LicoriceLain]

@DexterHaven49 Reading your comment, I heard Bill Hicks' voice in my head: 'It's called logic. It will help you."

[TravellinMan94]

"Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view."

-Micheal Crichton, The Lost World

[xXSparky117Xx]

@TravellinMan94

Awesome quote, I'm about to read that book for the first time.

[arsjth]

@TravellinMan94

In fact the effort to go against the zeitgeist of your time is immense. To make a stand every time there is a stupid comment like...."but the sea levels are rising cos the ice is melting" is difficult. Especially when you will be ostracized and outed as a denier.

[iboneic13]

@TravellinMan94 Ya know, it's funny...Michael Crichton has a lot in common with Ian Malcolm

[GibIslamkeineChance]

Spread the word so that Crichtons inconvenient truth will live on!

[offmynutz9000]

he be smarrrt

[frickadele]

Plants NEED co2 to survive... and plants then expel oxygen... which WE need to survive... and WE expel co2. The cycle of life on planet earth. 1,000-1,200 ppm co2...plants thrive.  250 ppm co2...plants start dying. Current co2 levels...385. Do you REALLY want to lower that level? Mars has polar ice caps...that were melting. Was it because of SUVs? We and Mars live next door to a thing called the SUN. And solar flares caused global warming. There are now LESS flare ups.

[Mackingster]

He was even a skeptic about a lot of the way science is ran today. Not just environmentalist. Jurassic Park the novel is a great example of this skepticism.

[holypsychopath]

chritonn is the man

[JohnnyMac2237]

Micheal Crichton was too intelligent and rational a soul to not see global warming for what it was...A means of imposing global government and banking derivatives for profit based on pseudoscience. Only now after his death and the proof that researchers were forging data have we finally beaten back these claims.

The Earth was here long before us and we have not the power to destroy this 4 Billion year old planet...Only ourselves.

You are and always will be my hero sir.

Science > Dogma

[snoopdoggfanclub]

@jaranarm and one more thing, while we're at it. i appreciate that there are climate sceptics who have done their homework. and some of them have very valuable points, e.g. that certain estimates are extreme. but there has been even more dogmatism from the anti-environment side.. most of the older men in my family (i'm 27-yr old male), couldn't even have explained what the theory in question was (i.e. certain gases cause climate change) until recently. all they knew was they didn't believe it.

[jaranarm]

@snoopdoggfanclub

the definition crichton provides can be used for any "organization" really. but the point i was trying to make was that while both "science" and "religion" can adhere to that definition, their ways of applying that definition into actual practice is quite different, which i was illustrating in my last post. environmentalism tries gaining followers without looking deep into proven data (one of crichton's criticisms of al gore) like religion. i admit mike didn't elaborate much.

[snoopdoggfanclub]

@jaranarm some people do approach environmentalism like a religion. but, what i'm getting at, is that crichton is talking in this conceited, deep, intellectual voice, saying he's going to analyze environmentalism from an "anthropological" perspective, as if he's real clever... then the definition that *he* goes on to give doesn't differentiate religion from science, I would say. so, i'm saying he's not as smart as he thinks.. i'm not saying one can't give a definition that separates the two.

[Jeffersonicus]

LastBrain, I thought the same thing when I saw this video. You can see in the expressions on their faces that Crichton did not give them the stock answers that they were expecting and that it was like they were listening to a foreign language.

[PissedFechtmeister]

@Jeffersonicus It's epistimological shock. They're being told that everything that they know is true is a lie. My concern is that, like religious people confronted with a challenge to their beliefs, they'll just retreat to those beliefs more strongly.

[888Kharami]

people predict the future """"""sometimes"""" via gifts from Deep Consciousness, excellent dreams and some psychics do very well and chose to keep a healthy profile.

[JohnnyMac2237]

What a complete rational genius Micheal Crichton was. He has and always will be my hero from age 10 to my age now of 30 now. You sir elevate the human race with your intellect and one day I will swim Bonaire because of you.

[ElvisandJohnny]

He's incredibly right on several topics. That we really don't know how to manage the environment that we inhabit. I myself recently finished his book State of Fear and it's amazing that he challenges environmentalists to rethink their beliefs.

[81broncoman]

Michael Crichton was a great man, but he committed the greatest sin of all, he challenged the Church of Egotistical Environmentalism.

[MewCat100]

@81broncoman Which made him and even greater man in my opinion.

[blatspanner]

eugh,kids. gross.

[Elephant228]

So many people in the mainstream are 'men of many traits and masters of nothing'.

Crichton has mastered philosophy, medicine (MD from Harvard), writing, and creative thinking unparalled to anyone I have read.

[jimbopumbapigsticks]

"What caused you to be so prejudiced against this religion [MGW]?"

What a rude person and a total moron. It's not a prejudice if you examine something THEN have a judgement. Clearly, she doesn't understand that, and it's such irony that she is the one that has actually formed a prejudice - a prejudice against those who disagree with her. Needs to go back to school.

[Illumified]

@jimbopumbapigsticks lol Im afraid school is were she learned her prejudices, going back there may not help

[snoopdoggfanclub]

you could call "science" a "religion" based on his definition... collective beliefs, those who disseminate it, people change their lives based on it. that's obviously not the right definition if "science" and "religion" are the same.

climate change is a complicated issue, and has to be settled based on the facts of the case.. not on anthropological name-calling.

[jaranarm]

@snoopdoggfanclub

the major difference between science and religion, however, is that religion is designed not to be challenged. a follower of science would continuously study and change their beliefs and lifestyles based on factual evidence.

[snoopdoggfanclub]

@jaranarm also, if you look at scientists, you can find guys like einstein, who believed in "god", but in a non-dogmatic way. you can also find scientists who believe in theories that have little supporting evidence, just because they were trained that way. so, some people approach everything like a science, even "religion". and, others approach everything like a religion, even science. and, this happens to be going on with environmentalism as well. but, i do think the climate is changing.

[Lunis]

I have a slightly different view than Crichton on global warming but what should be remembered about him is the way he argued. He used the scientific data to make his points and that's it; no emotional or philosophical drivel.

[aerobique]

nature (by the way) IS in fact our "god/spirit/all/father/mother"

calling people who want to save this nature they behave "religious" ONLY to discredid them is more than weak.

chrichton tells complete shit in the end

[fzqlcs]

@aerobique what is weak is your primitive thinking ability. Sad that some people react to truth the same way the devil reacts to holy water.

[aerobique]

@fzqlcs

this has nothing, really nothing to do with "truth", nor with scientific facts !

so your stupid devil-slogan returns back to you, science-denier

[aerobique]

Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.

[8n4n08]

This man is of brilliance

[rollsthepaul]

His whole demeanor is calm and non-threatening. This low key approach is very powerful and great when speaking to adolescents.

[haraldschl]

I think a spiritual approach to science as the ancients did would be a way to go. We no longer know what science is and we lost our spiritual way. Think of the story of Avatar

[Kitt0000]

We have lost way too many good people these past few years.

[akwon5]

Brilliant mind he had...

Did not know he passed away. We need more of him, less of Al Gore's.

[McFizzle108]

i love our environment. i consider myself an environmentalist. i am not liberal, i am not conservative. environmentalism is in no way a religion. we dont have a common god, or common leaders. i dont belive that either political views are in any way concerned with the environment. this is sad to me. as for second hand smoke, my best friend died of lung cancer. he lived in a hoouse where everyone smoked. he never once smoked. this guy hasnt backed up any of his facts with a source.

[mochitsukiman]

your friend died because of second hand smoke?

c'mon don't bullhit me.

[kurtzrepublican]

Well do remember, McFizzle, that this is a Q and A. I wouldn't expect anyone to bring sources with them, especially when answering to people this young. Cancer can be caused by all sorts of things. Esophageal cancer can be caused by stomach acid as it can genetically mutate your DNA. He could have been genetically predisposed to cancer, and even if he wasen't, it does not mean smoke caused it. Remember, " Correlation does not imply causation." I'm sorry about your friend. Cancer is rough.

[UBER069]

@McFizzle108 - are you incapable of doing any research yourself? DISPROVE anything he has said. You are A SHEEP. You eat, sleep, fuck if you're lucky, shit, get sheared and are clearly happy about it, so STFU and graze.

[jayjayjigsby2]

Crichton is not a great writer but he is/or was one of the smartest men in popular culture. I love the how calm he stays when the girl obviously doesn't like his approach to environmentalism. That is the sign of true intelligence: respect and responding with answer that provides a real perspective.

[kendoka5]

his ideas expressed in his writing make him a great writer. period.

[Scratchdoggy]

Ever since State of Fear came out, I've always thought to second-guess what I hear. It was a great book, and only now are people learning what the true value of this notion actually is.

[grendeljack]

Awesome! Thank you for posting this. AG can suck it!

[0186179821]

Global Warming is the evil scheme Globalists and Elites cooked up to fleece the world and conduct population control while looking like saints. Now they are being exposed as assclowns.

[Carpathia25]

@0186179821

You know who's an "assclown"? Alex Jones!

[RealityDetective]

No, it's YOU. Stop the ad hominid attacks

[TheLastBrainLeft]

Look at faces of these kids. It's the first time they have been exposed to dissenting points of view and they are not happy.

[kendoka5]

of course, they've been indoctrinated all their lives via the school system and mass media. hopefully though they'll come away a little wiser and learn to apply some critical thinking.

[utubenamex]

@TheLastBrainLeft

My exact thought.

[holypsychopath]

@TheLastBrainLeft they have a giant in their midst and do not realize it

[GamblerMan85]

@TheLastBrainLeft

I think it's the first time they heard a point of view that wasn't their parent's or the media.

[Moralvorstellung28]

@TheLastBrainLeft Yeah kids today's are told they are special and can do no wrong. This generation is going to be in for a rude awakening.

[davidopoulin]

@Moralvorstellung28 Not exactly, the "trophy generation" started some time before mine (I'm 24). But this self-esteem movement crap has sort of petered out. I remember being instructed on this in early grade school, but it wasn't really shoved down our throats.

In any case, I think a lot of kids learn their lesson in their first year of university, especially if they picked a difficult subject (Science, Engineering, Medicine, that sort of thing). It certainly was for me.

[Teapartyla]

@TheLastBrainLeft You're right about that. It should be a justification of how these kids are brainwashed. Most people though by their mid thirties start to realize that everything they have been told is untrue. Wow, mid thirties before they start using their brain.

[arsjth]

@Teapartyla

here is the problem. In university the kids are taught that they are the elite, that they must question everything, except what the teacher teaches them.

So they think they are critical thinkers when they are actually regurgitating what they have been taught.

Only thing worse than a non critical thinker is one who thinks that they are a critical thinker when they are not.

[drbayoms]

@arsjth

There is an ideology just as stupid as the idea that college will teach you EVERYTHING. And that's the idea that College will teach you NOTHING.

[Ravengaurd6]

@drbayoms oh yeah, you'll learn something but at what cost? and for what benefit? intuitions are rising and students are taking majors they can't get employed in.

[sniped101]

@TheLastBrainLeft indeed.. Now someone just need to tell them that the government steals from us thru taxes.

[shinybear]

He was right all along.

[kendoka5]

damn right, its a shame he couldn't be here for the climategate fallout, but I think Michael was content with his own desire for determining the truths of our world and passing that on to others .

[Habitually233]

One of the great thinkers of our time. RIP Mr. Crichton.

[ColtBarrettUSA]

Crichton speaks the truth here. The idea that all people are bad is derived from religious beliefs, not grounded in science.

[thumminxy]

Thanks for uploading this.

Google: "Chemtrails" & "HAARP".

[Minuteman351]

Wow, the arrogance of that young enviornmentalist grilling him is so telling of her religion. :)

[ColtBarrettUSA]

HAHHAHAHAHA

So true.

[USA4July1776]

Michael Crichton, my favorite fiction writer. I still can't believe that he passed away... what a waste of raw talent!

God bless your soul.

Green is the new Red.

[snowjob19]

What does Green is the new Red mean?

[USA4July1776]

That the environmental movement is the new avenue through which communist-style neo-feudalist and absolutist control over every conceivable aspect of human life is being promoted.

[tombwater]

Red has been associated with communism for decades. The green movement is largely run today by people promoting policies fundamentally similar to those found in communist countries.

This also explains why environmentalists are often referred to as "watermelons." Watermelons are green on the outside, red on the inside.

[RonPaul2008DotComYal]

Haha watermelons I love it.

[rrrrrrrrrrr01231231]

OMG HES TOO SMART!!!!

[gibson22varcelone]

"Nobody can predict the future." I don't think anyone can say it better. This man is a genius. Check out his essays on his webpage about happiness and how to have an argument. He's so insightful.

[Urrzah]

burn the fucking forests down fuck all wildlife Im gonna eat beef and non-organic noodles har har har

[blatspanner]

i don't know dick about the reality of climate change,but i absolutely trust that this man was telling the truth as he saw it,and doing so without any hysteria.

[blatspanner]

@blatspanner that was a naive statement.

[frickadele]

@blatspanner

You don't know shit but you trust him?

Wow. That's bad news.

[blatspanner]

@frickadele trust is intuitive. i know people reasonably well, being one myself. also, if he said he could fix my car, i'd let him have a go. if this particular guy offers to fix your car,it's because you're a friend of his, and you can reasonably assume he has your best interests at heart. if some idiot stranger approached me in the street and said he could fix my car, i'd be a little more wary. what's more, when i say i don't know anything about climate change, i'm being self-effacing.

[frickadele]

@blatspanner You don't know what's he's talking about... but you believe what he's talking about? Wow. You have the internet to scope out the truth. But you don't. You DON't check his so called facts..... and then HOPE that he's telling you the truth. You wouldn't let this guy fix your car... but you believe what he says about something that's more important than your stinking car. You've got your priorities screwed up.

[blatspanner]

@frickadele didn't say i believed what he was talking about,just that i believe he believed what he was talking about.

[murrtownchillen]

@frickadele

this man has done more research and spent more time critically thinking than anybody on this entire comment board. The fact that the common person would have the audacity to declare him incorrect is astonishing.

[13AJJONES]

@blatspanner  I AGREE, BUT NOT WITHOUT QUESTON.

ALWAYS FACT CHECK, B-4 ABSOLUTELY TRUSTING ANYONE, OF ANYTHING..

RON AND RAND IN 2012 !

}8 ? )

[drbayoms]

@blatspanner

The fact that you freely admit to knowing nothing about climate change by some how trust this man, shows a remarkable level of stupidity on your part. Was it the soft tone in which he speaks? Or was it his self assurance? If that's all it takes to win you over, be sure to grab some sunscreen before your deployment. Because the Middle East gets pretty hot.

[ranirghad]

@drbayoms You do know that climate change has taken place several time before tiny apes landed from the trees some 3 million years ago, right?? What was it that caused them--dino civilization?? Why did the temperatures did not increase as much in the second half of the twentieth century as it did in the first half, even though industrialization has taken in the same rate, and why would IPCC need to fudge their data as revealed in Climategate??

[Entropy56]

I'd like to bone that brown girl. Is that acceptable?

[blatspanner]

i think it is.

[yaroukh]

lmao "prejudice"... the girl is brainwashed :(

[tutoirialmakerabdel]

omfg what it wil mean this ?

[luciuse]

mean might english we speak. dumbass

[bryshning22]

Explain how Michael Crichton was profiting off of Oil Companies? Explain also how FICTION novels bludgeon youth?  Not everyone cares to read Silent Spring. His main attack is 'consensus science.' Perhaps if you paid closer attention you would realize this instead of going off on some type of Enviornmental rant. I don't own a car, but I know plenty of MMGW hypocrites who do. Enviornmentalism is the ideal religion for the Global Elite to enslave the populous. Wake up. Look around you.

[blatspanner]

enslave the populous what? sorry,i'm addicted to doing that.

[blatspanner]

what the shit are you talking about,you fanatical weirdo?

[sodie77]

State of Fear is a great read. Long but full of real "actual" scientific quotes.

[dudemanbearpig]

RIP...

[LeGioNoFZioN]

rest in peace Michael Crichton

[RealBloppy]

Brilliant man.

[theracemixer]

OMG i can't believe he said second hand smoke is not proven science. and he said smoking is bad. well the fact of the mater is cigarette company used to say the something about smoking.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

he said it is not true because it isn't. If one must lower ones standards to classify a substance in a particular way, then what does that say to you ?

[TheLastBrainLeft]

Guess what, he's right. Your reaction highlights exactly what Crichton is saying when he claims environmentalism is a religion. He's Galielo and you're the freakin' Pope.

[EnemyAce88]

That is most articulate argument against the liberal nonsense of global warming and secondhand smoke that I've every heard. Of course almost nobody understands it anymore, but the difference between 95% and 90% confidence intervals in statistics is HUGE. I never knew the EPA arrived at its conclusions by changing the standard of proof like that. Not surprising tho...

God rest his soul.

[JMartins1981]

Environmentalists are anti-human. The earth is a resource and our only source of sustenance -- unless we take advantage of it, we die. Google "Exploit the Earth or die" to learn some valuable facts.

[conorhennessey]

I tried to have an "exploit the earth or die day" last year in my school. It didnt go over too well. Thats Massachusetts for you.

[whoo689]

The only people environmentalism is even remotely a "religion" for are the radical environmentalists.

[whoo689]

I'm surprised he answered the environmentalism question as calmly and civilly as he did. I mean, when people say things like "environmentalism is a religion", they're usually being very arrogant and smug. I think saying environmentalism is a religion is just a silly way to avoid talking about environmental issues and not be a "liberal pansy." I'm not excessively big on environmental protection, but I am a fair amount pro-environment, and it's certainly NOT a religion for me or moderates.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

It's the anti-environmentalists these days which face public scorn and ridicule. It takes more guts to say publically that you are a global warming skeptic, something I've had to endure for years. Recent events have proven me right, so I'm facing even more scorn as the True Believers have a crisis of faith.

[JoeyFudd]

Nice to see him speak. I have enjoyed his essays on the myth of Global Warming and so on. He should have challenged that little bratty bitch for asking loaded improper questions! He "judged" the facts of environmentalism -- there was no evidence of his being "so prejudiced"! That smug bitch then assumes the harms of second hand smoke are "facts." They are NOT. They were bogus conclusions stated as facts by those with an agenda! That smug bitch is too dumb to frame good questions!

[burnhippiesforfuel]

his response to such ill- concieved questions w/ patience have the best chance to reach her indoctrinated skull full of mush.