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The Pseudoscience Wars : Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin; Immanuel Velikovsky; Kenneth A. Kitchen; Theodosius Dobzhansky; Dean B. McLaughlin; Albert Einstein is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pseudoscience Wars : Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe about?
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor. Sound implausible? Well, from 1950 until the late 1970s, a huge number of people begged to differ, as they devoured Immanuel Velikovsky’s major best-seller, (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/928352.Worlds_in_Collision) Worlds in Collision , insisting that perhaps this polymathic thinker held the key to a new science and a new history. Scientists, on the other hand, assaulted Velikovsky’s book, his followers, and his press mercilessly from the get-go. In The Pseudoscience Wars , Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his strange career and surprisingly influential writings to explore the changing definitions of the line that separates legitimate scientific inquiry from what is deemed bunk, and to show how vital this question remains to us today. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material from Velikovsky’s personal archive
Who reads The Pseudoscience Wars : Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michael D. Gordin; Immanuel Velikovsky; Kenneth A. Kitchen; Theodosius Dobzhansky; Dean B. McLaughlin; Albert Einstein
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226101729
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Science, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (61 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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