Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 526. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people a year for witchcraft." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 580
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Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 515. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of fearmongers. So far as I know, nobody had to ban horse transport in the early twentieth century." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 570
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 516. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "The “precautionary principle,” properly applied, forbids the precautionary principle. It is self-contradictory. The precautionary principle therefore cannot be spoken of in terms that are too harsh." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 571
„Ich weiß mit Gewissheit, dass es zu viel Gewissheit in der Welt gibt.“
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 518. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 573
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 514. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
"We know astonishingly little about every aspect of the environment, from its past history, to its present state, to how to conserve and protect it. In every debate, all sides overstate the extent of existing knowledge and its degree of certainty." - State of Fear
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“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!”
Michael Crichton
buch
Welt in Angst
Quelle: State of Fear
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Kontext: I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
“Egypt imbued the view with a heavy sense of mystery and foreboding.”
Michael Crichton
buch
Easy Go
Easy Go (1967)
"Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
“Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.”
Michael Crichton
buch
A Case of Need
A Case of Need (1968)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
