Thread: Penguin India to destroy all copies of "The Hindus" due to religious pressure
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Old 02-26-2014, 11:34 AM   #52
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Reminds me of the pressure by the academic community put upon Macmillan to stop the publication of Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision in 1950. It was a bestseller and they sold the rights to Doubleday. Velikovsky dared to challenge the dogmas of “science.”
Ah, Immanuel Velikovsky. The precursor to Erich Von Daniken. Velikovsky! Whose scientific credentials are second only to the researchers at Answers in Genesis. Velikovsky! Without whose writings we would never have known that 17,000 years ago Jupiter pooped out the planet we know today as Venus.

Sheesh.
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