Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf 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 Article-I.D.: mit-vax.658 Posted: Sun Aug 18 03:15:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:29:37 EDT References: <374@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 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_