Re: "Sagan and Velikovsky" to appear in local book stores

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In article <3g8vpd$j28@decaxp.harvard.edu>,
Matt McIrvin <mcirvin@scws6.harvard.edu> wrote:
>In article <CARROLL.95Jan24114051@quadriga.cis.udel.edu>,
>Mark C. Chu-Carroll <carroll@quadriga.cis.udel.edu> wrote:
>
>>No one wanted Velikovsky's view to not be published at all. The goal
>>was to have them published under *the appropriate imprint*. If _WiC_
>>was published as a comparative mythology book, there would never have
>>been any uproar at all.
>
>I'm not so sure about this. I've heard that researchers in
>comparative mythology find _WiC_ just as ridiculous as astronomers do,
>though for a different set of reasons.

Historians and archeologists find Velikovsky a crank too.
A real polymath crank.

Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope Of Houston
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