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Originally Posted by The Old Man
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.”
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He was also full of it. The man apparently didn't even know the difference between hydrocarbons and carbohydrates. Still, being egregiously wrong and misleading your readers isn't sufficient reason to ban it.