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Originally Posted by The Old Man
Yes, Velikovsky was demonized, and I can see he still is.
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I'd hardly say he's being demonized. Ridiculed maybe (deservedly).
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Originally Posted by The Old Man
True of false, he deserved a fair hearing by the scientific community, and that he never received.
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He got the fair hearing. That's why they wanted it pulled from the shelves. It's obviously spreading untrue information. I read Worlds in Collision in college and immediately realized that it violated all laws of astrodynamics. It was bad science trying to explain unexplainable phenomenon.