MICHAEL CRICHTON
(John Michael Crichton)
Yet today California is a battleground for fights over preservation of old growth forest. In the 1800s the Indians thought old growth forests bad for hunting. Yet Indians are generally thought of as being more environmentally responsible than most.
He does not claim that a prediction may not coincidentally turn out to be accurate—just that the predictor has no certainty whatsoever and at best was guessing and at worse manipulating.
John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology. His novels often explore technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background.
