Yes, Velikovsky was demonized, and I can see he still is. BTW he said it was Venus that popped out of Jupiter not the reverse. His books are now available on Kindle and interestingly the 1950 version is unaltered. Some speculations he made have been proven true such as the high surface temperature of Venus along with its retrograde motion. It wasn’t only the pressure put on Macmillan it was the shabby way he was treated. True of false, he deserved a fair hearing by the scientific community, and that he never received.
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