Re: In memoriam, Michael Crichton
"When does the report come out that the sole human test subject was given a nuclear battery to power his implant?"
In fairness, that wasn't a sign of cutting corners in the research. At the time the book was written, plutonium power systems for pacemakers were being used in some patients because it decreased the need for surgeries to replace dying batteries. Neither batteries nor surgeries were as good in 1971 as they are today. The researchers in the book did a lot of things wrong, but the nuclear battery wasn't one of them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
