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Just finished Velikovsky's theological/occult work Worlds in Collision, which I first read about thirty years ago. Although V. was undoubtedly sincere, unlike many writers of pseudoscience, he failed to take into account that the countless thousands of items of folklore which he interpreted to support his thesis could just as readily be interpreted differently to support an entirely different thesis.
In the various second-hand bookshops I have patronised, Velikovsy usually appears in the religious/magic/occult sections, along with crystals, dowsing, astrology, Bermuda triangles and the like.
Still, worth the effort to re-read. And now to bin, as part of my ongoing p-book reduction program.
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