About the only thing Velikovsky got right is that something really big was going on in the Eastern Mediterranean at one time. (It was the volcanic eruption of Thera/Santorini.)
I don't go hard on the man..he's a Genius..if you consider his pulling together of mythology...forwarding of Academic construct and data...willing to let his work be parused by Einstein.
The V surely got things wrong..but He makes us consider this one point.
Man saw ,and was driven by the results of a catastrophe, that was world wide in scope....the Mythology is blatantly clear.
How can they slam Velikovsky....where in todays present think tank concept forwarded at SPACE.COM..is that the inner Solar System had a 5th planet between Mars and Jupiter..then fell into the Sun on elliptical decay.
This is the same community that slams Velikovsky as an astro mechanics failure...then conceeds that things exist.[Planets..comets]...and they perturb the other known planets..then they are destroyed.
Here's Velikovsky simply saying..."something passed near...the Earth got throttled"...
Velikovsky is a pioneer....Like the guys who surveyed North America.
Lots of mistakes in comparrison to our forwardings via satillite and computer..but still....they were first.
**** A freind sat in on a lecture from Velikovsky on the west coast...he passed away a few months later;
He spoke about interdimensional physics...this guy's mind was sharp..right to the end.