Title: Science of the Absurd
Review: Chrichton has taken a fictional approach to a familiar theme -- cherrypicking science to supposedly support his own opinions.Just like Bjorn Lomborg in "The Skeptical Environmentalist", Chrichton draws conclusions based on partial science or half science. To those who won't bother to check the facts, they may be influenced by Chrichton's approach. Many Nevadans were told by the U.S. government that it is safe to store tons of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, and the United Nations was told by Colin Powell that the aluminum tubes that Saddam's government procured were for nuclear centrifuges -- meanwhile, in both of these cases many respected scientists disagreed. In the latter, it was finally proven that the aluminum tubes were not what our government told us they were.Read Chrichton in the same vein -- as if he were doing the bidding of politicians instead of scientists.
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