Title: Short on story, long on science
Review: State of Fear won't be remembered as Michael Crichton's best story but it seems to me he wanted to get his views on the junk science behind the environmentalist movement out there and decided to write a novel to hang his arguments on. Although I wish he had spent more time on the story I have to admit that I still found it a compelling read, primarily because he was so dead-on about junk science. If you want a bit of an education about the environmentalist movement, global warming and the fake science behind them and don't want to bury yourself in dry science papers -- with a bit of a story wrapped around it, I would recommend State of Fear.
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