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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: science society Darwinism/ open versus closed systems
Message-ID: <658@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:15:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 03:15:34 1985
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In article <374@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>                                       Scientists  are  likely  to discover
>          that,  aside  from  being  correct,  Immanuel Velikovsky with his
>          notion of catastrophic evolution represents the  only chance they
>          have  to  do  anything  other  than spend the rest of their lives
>          coming in last.
.....stuff about suppression in the scientific community......
>	  Did Immanuel Velikovsky ever have a fair hearing from these people?  
>	  Get serious.  I'd rather try to sell boiling water in Hell than to
>	  try to sell astronomists a right idea, which is what Velikovsky
>	  tried to do.

Your bits on suppression of ideas are very apt. Velikovsky is, however,
a raving loonie. I hope the scientific community doesn't have to fall
back on him to save themselves in the schools!

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_