The papers of Russian-born American scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky have a new home in the Princeton University Library. His daughter, Ruth Sharon of Princeton, has donated the papers for use ...
The term “pseudoscience” gets thrown around quite a bit these days, most notably in debates about the dominant consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Say “pseudoscience,” and immediately a bunch ...
Princeton historian Gordin provides an often compelling but sometimes plodding account of the scientific and cultural impact of Immanuel Velikovsky’s book, Worlds in Collision, which soared to the top ...
On January 12, 2005 NASA launched its latest space probe, Deep Impact, named after the recent Hollywood science fiction film. Recall, in the cliffhanger a team of courageous astronauts (led by tough ...
In 1950, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky rewrote history. Or rather, he attempted to. A psychiatrist by training, the scholarly Velikovsky fashioned himself a historian, astronomer, chemist, geologist, ...
IN THE MONTHS since Todd Akin, the GOP candidate for Senate in Missouri, made his career-crushing gaffe about “legitimate rape,” columnists and medical professionals countrywide have publicly debunked ...
Immanuel Velikovsky at the 1974 American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in San Francisco In the 1940s, a curiously enigmatic figure haunted New York City’s great libraries, his ...
To the Editors of the CRIMSON: A copy of the Registration number of your publication came into my hands. It contains the following statement by Professor Shapley: "The claim that Dr. Velikovsky's book ...