Myles Allen, Head of the Climate Dynamics Group, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, wrote in "Nature" in 2005: Michael Crichton's latest blockbuster, "State of Fear", is also on the theme of global warming and is, ...likely to mislead the unwary... Although this is a work of fiction, Crichton's use of footnotes and appendices is clearly intended to give an impression of scientific authority.The American Geophysical Union, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries, states in their newspaper "Eos" in 2006, "We have seen from encounters with the public how the political use of "State of Fear" has changed public perception of scientists, especially researchers in global warming, toward suspicion and hostility."