[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"
Ian Tresman
ian2 at knowledge.co.uk
Tue Sep 18 19:59:08 UTC 2007
At 20:33 18/09/2007, Matthew Brown wrote:
>On 9/18/07, Ian Tresman <ian2 at knowledge.co.uk> wrote:
> > I recall Director of NASA's Goddard Space Center,
> > Columbia astronomer and Dartmouth earth
> > scientist, Robert Jastrow, criticizing part of
> > Carl Sagan's assessment of Worlds in Collision,
> > and concluded that "Here Velikovsky was the
> > better astronomer" [The New York Times (December 2, 1979)
>
>I suspect this was intended as a monumental insult to Sagan rather
>than any praise to Velikovsky.
"Velikovsky was the better astronomer" sure reads like praise to me.
I suppose that when Velikovsky earned an Honorary Degree of Doctor of
Arts and Science from the University of Lethbridge in 1974, this was
meant as a monumental insult to everyone at the University.
George Herbert 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.
But surely not as unpopular as Velikovsky.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com
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