'State of Fear' Debunks Junk Science About Theories of Global Warming

In today's segmented America, Michael Crichton’s new novel “State of Fear” might seem to be just reading for red states. Granted, a character resembling Martin Sheen - Crichton’s character is a prototypical Hollywood liberal who plays the President in a television series - meets an appropriately grisly fate. But blue states, too - no, especially - need Crichton’s fable about the ecology of public opinion.