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Published online 20 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041220-4
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Michael Crichton should accept that scientists know more about climate change than he does, charges Philip Ball.
The US author Michael Crichton is well known for taking some strand of contemporary science, stretching it a little, and weaving it into the narrative of a thriller that goes on to become a best-seller and a blockbuster movie.
It worked for microbiology in The Andromeda Strain, it worked for genetic engineering in Jurassic Park, and it worked for nanotechnology and distributed intelligence in Prey.
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