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Speeches by Michael Crichton was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 11 August 2020 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Michael Crichton. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Speeches[edit]

That whole section is full of WP:FRINGE claims. "Together with climate scientists"? He disgreed with practically every climate scientist in existence. The section needs to be severely shrunk, if not deleted completely. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:03, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nuclear war[edit]

"especially in the face of political and social pressures such as the desire to avert nuclear war" That sounds as if he thought that we should not care about averting nuclear war.
"To the extent that we think egotistically and irrationally and paranoically and foolishly, then we have technology that will give us nuclear winters or cars that won't brake. But that's because people didn't design them right." This sounds as if he thought we should modify nuclear weapons so they do not cause nuclear winter.

That sounds pretty crazy, and it should either be deleted or clarified. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:34, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

movies based on novels by Michael Crichton: EATERS OF THE DEAD[edit]

The article states that no film was ever made based on EATERS OF THE DEAD. The 1999 movie THE 13TH WARRIOR (q.v.) is based on EATERS OF THE DEAD. 47.183.71.115 (talk) 07:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It says it did not occur as planned in 1979. At the end of the next section it talks about The 13th Warrior in 1999. –CWenger (^ • @) 16:40, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]