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I'm not telling you what to enjoy or not, but here's some more information for you to make your own decisions:
His death was sadly early in life for a very rich white man living in the USA. He passed away due to cancer at the age of 66. Much younger than the average person of his success and wealth in 2008.
In 2004 (aged 62) he published a book called State of Fear about eco warrior terrorists plotting mass murder in their attempts to publicise global warming. The book also contained cliff notes and a 20 page bibliography doubling and tripling down on his belief that humans have not caused the rise in temperatures on earth.
On the tour publicising the book, during a question and answer session, he drew an analogy between believers in global warming and Nazi eugenicists. “Auschwitz exists because of politicized science."
Jurassic Park the book and the screenplay are Crichton's personal warning against Genetic Science and Genetic Engineering by using an extreme example about dinosaurs. Thanks to both fields of research and production, we have these world changing products and scenarios:
Disease resistant crops
High yield crops
Food quality
Food volume
Increase in food security
Hep B vaccine
Michael Crichton was a believer in pseudo science such as telekinesis, astral projection, and auras, and has previously railed against"mainstream science" for writing off these ideas and not giving them the credence they deserve.
The difference between Crichton and Hambini here is that objectively you could say Crichton can write good books and screenplays since he's so successful. However to objectively say Hambini is good would need some sort of external validation that his engineering opinion is indeed correct, rather than a bunch of people watching his videos and saying, hmmm that sounds like it makes sense.