In this op - ed, they (justifiably, in our view) criticize an event that was held in San Francisco to promote Michael Crichton's book «State of Fear» and the deeply flawed
attacks against mainstream scientific research that the book seeks to promote.
From the first time he came to
mainstream media's attention in 1994 proclaiming that the Gay Games in New York that year would spread AIDS in the city, to his resignation from the Civilian Complaint Review Board because of the constant protest from the LGBT community, to his
attacks on the Harvey Milk School and his bussing in evangelical Christians from the tri-state area to stage a protest
against gay marriage on the steps of the Bronx County Courthouse, he has crusaded
against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.