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Re: "Sagan and Velikovsky" to appear in local book stores
William S. Lawson (lawson@pax.llnl.gov)
23 Jan 1995 16:15:10 GMT
In article <3fpdvh$cpg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Sivier ) writes:
|> medved@access3.digex.net (Ted Holden) writes:
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|> [crap about book exposing Sagan's trashing of Velikovsky deleted to save
|> bandwidth and our minds]
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|> Holden is a net.kook who has previously been seen in sci.astro. He was in
|> my kill file, but only for that group. I've altered my kill file so he'll be
|> ignored no matter where he shows up and I'd suggest everyone else so the same.
|> Don't waste your time responding in a logical and reasonable way to his posts,
|> because it will have no effect other than to make you frustrated (from what
|> I've seen in the past).
|>
|> Jonathan
|>
Actually, Einstein is sometimes held up as a "supporter" of Velikovsky. He was
always cordial to him. What he actually said about the book, however, was:
"It's not a bad book -- it really isn't. It's just that it's completely
crazy." (My apologies if this quote is inexact, but it is accurate in spirit.)
-- Bill Lawson
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