[BenLurkin]

Recommended reading:

And because of the cool cover:

[boris]

Velikovsky was a kook of the first water. I read it as a teenager and laughed all the way through. Isaac Asimov demolished him, once and for good, in a brilliant piece called "Worlds in Confusion."

The most risible section of Velikovsky's book was where he admitted his ideas to be incompatible with Newtonian physics: and then recommended that Newtonian physics be reconstructed so as to conform to his theories!

--Boris