Then and now.......or
Google Bombing Michael Crichton

John Fleck points to an article in TPMuckraker where, in his new fishwrap, Cricheton gratuitously slanders a critic (behind the Lexis-Nexis wall) as a child molester. This sort of thing has a long history, not only with Crichton, who has practiced it in the past, but with some rather famous authors. However, this is not without risk, and the critic, Michael Crowley, could sue and get Cricheton's book pulped, at least in England.

Still, the calculus has historically been that the targets, either shrug it off, as not being worth the expense to sue, or as the last link points out, hire some thugs to beat on the artiste. As emotionally satisfying as the later may be, today the tables have turned. Even with good sales, Cricheton's book will only reach a few thousand who buy it and read it. If made into a movie, the studio lawyers will see that the extraneous scenes never make it to the script, let alone the screen. In short, Cricheton's reach here is limited.

But folks, Google is everywhere, and it would only be just if every time anyone used the term Michael Cricheton, there was a link to the TPMuckraker article. A Real Climate article on clueless Michael already is number four on the MC list. However, this is not really in the spirit of true Google bombing. Perhaps we should link fishwrap to some article on MC, much in the spirit of the original Google bomb "talentless hack", which, though descriptive has already been taken and would be hard to dislodge. Still, dear friends, Eli is confident in your cleverness and quite willing to lend an ear.

You might be interested in leaving a review at Amazon, and elsewhere, pointing to MCs bad behavior (it actually was not such a bad review, the skin Crichton skin is thin) and leaving a few links.

Rabett Run is open to suggestions, but as a stopgap we are going to add this to our blogroll:)