[hannasanarion]

Not that Michael Crichton should be treated as an authority on truth in reporting. He believed there was a vast worldwide conspiracy to defraud poor innocent oil companies by manufacturing evidence of global warming.

[briandear]

For reference here is a Michael Crichton speech on the topic: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publica...

[exolymph]

Michael Crichton himself doesn't need to be any type of authority for the reasoning in that specific quote to make sense.

[hannasanarion]

The point is that "the baloney you just read" is not necessarily baloney if your "expertise" derives from conspiracy theory blogs and propaganda.