A redditor realizes Michael Crichton's entire career was spent writing about arrogant scientists ignoring nature, while his final completed book, 'State of Fear,' was exactly that-- an arrogant man of science ignoring the facts in favor of his worldview.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought/comments/25z8dr/why_do_people_persist_in_believing_things_that/chmeyjm?context=3