On 18/09/2007, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, unfortunately unless you know the history here
(Sagan was
monumentally unpopular in his field, as popular as he was to the
public), it's easy to be confused.
And Sagan was particularly annoying even by his own standards in this
set of arguments, I vaguely recall.
It's a single quote from a "mainstream" astronomer; given the
circumstances surrounding the debate, I think we can safely assume it
was someone calling Sagan a twerp rather than calling Velikovsky a
respected scientist! The dangers of contextless quotation...
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- Andrew Gray
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