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...caused me any moral or material harm, and also previously in "Newsweek of July 3 (". . . Dr. Shapley last week denied heatedly that he conducted 'any campaigns against the book.' . . . 'I didn't make any threats and I don't know anyone who did.'") can be regarded as truthful statements. Immanuel Velikovsky
...several months the lists of bestselling books have offered multiple proof of man's incurable yearning for marvels. Near the top of the "nonfiction" section stood Immanuel Velikovsky's scientifically preposterous Worlds in Collision (astronomy based on hashed-up mythology). Close below was L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics (psychiatric home-treatment practiced as a sort of parlor game...
...quite surprised at the singularly biased stand you, as the guiding hand of a publication that is representative of a theoretically enlightened age, took on the question of the validity of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's as yet unpublished volume entitled Worlds in Collision [TIME, March...
...serenely beautiful evening star, the planet Venus, was not always a well-behaved heavenly body. According to "Universal Scholar" Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in his forthcoming book Worlds in Collision (soon to be published by Macmillan), Venus was once the bad girl of the solar system. She frightened the whole human race into a "collective amnesia" which kept her misbehavior from being recorded...
Among modern astronomers, an old theory of the origin of the solar system was back in fashion. German Philosopher Immanuel Kant had speculated in 1755 that the sun and its planets were formed by condensation out of a gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into...