Jurassic Park

Ive seen the movie several times and generally enjoyed it. But it has some very annoying anti-science rants in it. Now I see where they come from. There is a several page screed about hot stupid engineers are and another even long one about the failure of science. These are both from the mathematician character, who should know better. If you want an example of how running something like Jurassic Park isn't that difficult, just go to Disney's Animal Kingdom and count how many people are eaten by tigers everyday.

As a software engineer, I find the Nedry character offensive, But using the stereotype makes the writing a little easier, I guess. There is an important bit of information that is kept from the heroes by a mistake in the computer software, but it is a mistake that not even a beginning programmer would make. But when you start with the assumption that science and engineering are bad then you need to have characters do dumb things to prove your point.

I will probably read the next book but not for a while.