The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

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1. There are perhaps many lessons to be learned from the learned professor, but the most poignant is

to never draw conclusions from a text in a language you cannot actually read. Relying on the translations of others and interpreting them rather loosely invited 'catastrophe.' (Excuse that pun please.) Velikovsky never recovered from the criticisms of actual leading cuneiform scholars.