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Among his non-fiction works is ''[[Travels]]'', which contains autobiographical episodes, and a lecture criticizing the concept of [[scientific consensus]] -- with the intentionally silly title of ''[[Aliens Cause Global Warming]]''.
''Aliens Cause Global Warming'' is a lecture given by [[Michael Crichton]] in 2003, in which the writer castigates the scientific establishment for:
* holding on to established notions, long after definitive, reproducible observations had proved these notions wrong
* refusing to examine new research which overturns existing theories
Crichton examines the [[Drake equation]], [[nuclear winter]], [[puerperal fever]], [[pellagra]], and [[continental drift]] as examples of traditionalists holding onto a "[[scientific consensus]]" instead of doing real science. He recounts the claims about [[second-hand smoke]], about which a Federal judge ruled that the EPA was "committed to a conclusion before research had begun", and had "disregarded information and made findings on selective information."
He recounts dire predictions about the environment which never came to pass due to technological advances no one had foreseen. For example, in the 1960s [[Paul R. Ehrlich]] predicted mass starvation by the 1970s. When that didn't happen, he again predicted mass starvation for ten years later; that didn't happen either.
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