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Gozra said: So what do you understand about Velikovsky

That he was at best a crackpot with no knowledge of basic physics, and at worst a deliberate fraud.

Did you look at the Electric Universe material?

Yes, and I regret wasting that much time on it. Talbott apparently takes Velikovsky seriously, which in my book makes him worse than Velikovsky.

As was quoted at The Skeptic's Dictionary:

The less one knows about science, the more plausible Velikovsky's scenario appears.... --Leroy Ellenberger

[Baron Munchausen]

That he was at best a crackpot with no knowledge of basic physics, and at worst a deliberate fraud.


Ding! Ding!

You win the prize, a free URL full of pointers to information about just how cracked Velikovsky's pot really was:

http://www.astrosociety.org/educatio...eudobib07.html

Probably the best reference in this list is to the work of a former 'follower' of Velikovsky who finally figured out how ridiculous his ideas were:

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/velidelu.html