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In light of his recently published novel, State of Fear, novelist Michael Crichton was called before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works so that he could criticize the theory of global warming:

"His is an unpopular and contrary stance when measured against the judgment of groups like the National Academy of Sciences. But it was not those organizations that asked Mr. Crichton to Washington to counsel Congress on how to consider diverse scientific opinion when making policy. It was the committee chairman, Senator James M. Inhofe, a plainspoken Oklahoma Republican who has unabashedly pronounced global warming 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.'"

-From The Times

Our government no longer even cares to hide the fact that its policies are based on elaborate works of fiction. Why should they?

posted by Little Gordie @ 2:40 PM