Truthiness Reigns
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is presenting its "annual journalism award" to Michael Crichton for his novel,
State of Fear, which argues that global warming is a bogus threat cooked up by environmentalists trying to raise money.
"It is fiction," Larry Nation, communications director for the association,
told the NYT. "But it has the absolute ring of truth."
Well...no. It doesn't.
There isn't a single credible scientist who thinks that State of Fear has the ring of truth.
Only in an age of
truthiness could a science fiction writer win a journalism award for a book that's a complete crock...
Why, not even the Republicans in Congress would take Crichton seriously enough to have him testify at a Congressional hearing on global warming.
Oh, wait, actually...
they did.
We need to get James Frey and Michael Crichton in a room together to do a genre switch. Memoir=true. Fiction=made-up.
This might require a
Vulcan mind-meld...which is totally true, by the way.
