Trusting science?

It was June in 1993, my thirty-seventh year, and beating a path to get movie tickets, I was as fast as a lottery winner making new friends. Having seen trailers of a large green Brontosaurus roaming the countryside, you know, the docile, 70-foot mascot of Sinclair Oil, I was anxious. The early scene when Sam Neill (as Dr. Alan Grant), Laura Dern (Dr. Ellie Sattler), and Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Ian Malc…