Re: Velikovsky Criticisms Wanted

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From: Richard A. Schumacher
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:50

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>It really shocked my that Sagan spent the amount of time he did in order
>to rebuke Velikovsky.  As a matter of fact, I can't understand why
>anybody would want to invest time and effort in dealing with such obvious
>nonsense.

Because, unfortunately, there are many people with little or no familiarity
with science for whom V.'s ideas are not obviously nonsense. To these
people, silence on the part of scientists looks like embarrassed silence.
Asimov makes this point again and again. These people cannot be ignored
as long as they vote, sit on school boards, etc.

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