...Surprisingly, neither Gribbin nor Plagemann has ever been tarred-and-feathered for their journalistic malfeasance. And what was Isaac Asimov thinking when he agreed to write the Foreward to this book, and sound almost like he agrees with them...?
The book “The Jupiter Effect” was a hell of a nice piece of quackery, but one thing I remember from it, that still intrigues, is that there’s a cycle of sunspot activity that corresponds to the number of years it takes Jupiter to complete one orbit. OTOH, Jupiter’s mass to that of the Sun is about the same as Earth’s to Jupiter.
...Surprisingly, neither Gribbin nor Plagemann has ever been tarred-and-feathered for their journalistic malfeasance. And what was Isaac Asimov thinking when he agreed to write the Foreward to this book, and sound almost like he agrees with them...?