[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Sep 18 07:27:58 UTC 2007


George Herbert wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Ian Tresman <ian2 at knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> The credibility of Velikovsky's ideas have
>> nothing to do with the Pensée series. And
>> Velikovsky never described planetary "billiards".
>>     
> My grandparents' library had some of his first editions.  I'm using
> one of the modern euphamisms, but I'm intimately familiar with his
> work.  It has no scientific credibility in the modern sense.
I can go along with the qualification "in the modern sense," but we are 
talking about a set of theories from the 1950s, and that makes the 
modern sense anachronistic.

Ec



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