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Re: Carl Sagan...perhaps

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Physfitfreak wrote:
> >
> > On 12/23/2023 7:02 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
> > > I remember reading a scifi novel of the 50s where the hero (USAn of course) was about to wipe out the Venusians.
> >
> > Modern Humans knew even back then how to make money using these Sheep.
> >
> > But no one I know has come close to Velikovsky in terms of the scale and
> > thoroughness with which he exploited these Sheep, using only scifi!
> >
> > The generation of Modern Humans before Velikovsky, were essentially
> > doing the same thing but writing "Freudian psychology" scifis. Americans
> > were thinking they were reading scientific works :-))
> >
> > Hahhhaha :)
> >
> > God what Sheep these cro-magnons are.
> 
> Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist.
> He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history
> 
> Pseudohistory is purported history which:
>     Treats myths, legends, sagas and similar literature as literal truth
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory
> 
> Is this some kind of a joke?
> 
> Controversy reigned when the book's publisher (Macmillan) was forced to tear up Velikovsky's contract ...
> https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky


Who is the biggest joke, Sagan or Velikovsky?




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