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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

onager

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10. Von Daniken almost made Velikovsky seem reasonable.

Reply to Responder3 (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 10:14 PM

Jan 2012

Boy, do I remember Velikovsky. One of my Marine Corps buddies read "Worlds In Collision" and wouldn't shut up about it.

His trump card: "Did you know Albert Einstein was reading Velikovsky when he died?"

After I read that POS, I told him -if that were true - it made me happy to think that Einstein had probably died laughing.

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