Michael Crowley wrote an article for the New Republic back in March criticizing Michael Crichton's views on global warming. Crichton has responded by writing Crowley into his new novel as a child rapist. WTF? (via rc3)
Michael Crichton on the sad state of patents in the US, particularly those related to medicine. "Any doctor who reads a patient's test results and even thinks of vitamin deficiency infringes the [homocysteine/B-12] patent. A federal circuit court held that mere thinking violates the patent."
