[Yollopoliuhqui]

>>A lot of scholars consider Immanuel Velikovsky a crackpot. I don’t know of anyone who accepts his radical redating of dynasties. The fourth century is pretty well-documented by ancient standards.

A crackpot that was an intimate colleague of Albert Einstein with whom he co published “Scripta Universitas”, the 1920’s scholarly journal based in Jerusalem, in pre-statehood Israel. They were neighbors in Princeton and their wives played in a string quartet together. THAT Velikovsky? Of course you refer to him as a crackpot without ever reading a word he wrote. Typical.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually I have read a couple of his books, a long time ago. They were imaginative and interesting, but not convincing. A comet did not turn into the planet Venus, as Velikovsky thought (I don't remember if that is in one of the books I read, or someone told me about it). That he was a friend of Albert Einstein's doesn't mean his theories are right.

There is a logical fallacy called the argumentum ad hominem. I guess this would be the argumentum ad amicum hominis.