Whatever you may believe, he was remarkably accurate when it came to predictions of surface and atmospheric conditions on Venus in the 1950s - before any probe had gone there.
The dismissal you gave is exactly the same meme that mainstream science gave, without being able to account for his Venus predictions (which at the time was believed by mainstream science to have earth-like conditions).
See “Velikovsky Reconsidered” for more.
In his 1979 science book Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote that the high surface temperature of Venus was known prior to Velikovsky, and that Velikovsky misunderstood the mechanism for this heat.[14]
I read his book, “ages in chaos” in the late 1960’s. It was about the same time the oil exploration articles on the fractured quartz in the Yucatan showed that an asteroid hit earth creating world chaos.
Then the magnetomer research along the Mid Atlantic Ridge in the 70’s showed the earth field reversals.
When I retired in the 1990’s I became a Spaceweather addict and searched for more.
I presented a theory about the coordination of the earth’s magnetic axis of the core creating a dynamo effect with increased friction in opposition to the geographic axis that changed earth’s magnetosphere.
That was in the mid 1990’s.
I showed that when the earth’s axis aligned, the dynamo influence decreased making the earth vulnerable.
When the sun has reverse polarity CME’s every 22 years, combined with the axis alignment every 2,000 years, earth enters a perfect storm every 44,000 years.
When I spoke with the astro physicists, who specialized in planetary gravitational field research, they told me the earth’s core is the stabilizer that most planets don’t have.
I always try to understand the bigger picture.