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bttt - almost-forgotten footnotes regarding Velikovsky:

In the '50's & '60's, Velikovsky was derisively written off as a charlatan by the scientific community. Non other than Carl Sagan made it his business to drum him out of the self-anointed community of "knowers" that human science too often becomes. Velikovsky's thoughts about catastrophic upheavals on the earth - whether terrestrial or extra in origin - were assigned to the bookshelves next to the "...egyptians in their flying craft..." tomes. Back then, "Science" scoffed at the earth having had anything outside of a benign evolution.

Now, of course, we have this neat meme that expresses when the shit hits the fan on a global scale - Catastrophism. Funny... it seems all one's gotta do is put an "ism" on the end of a word, and it becomes legit, eh?

But I digress - we now have this somber-all-the-smart-geeks-solemnly-nod-their-heads accepted scientific "fact" called Catastrophism - yet the father of the discipline - Velikovsky - gains no recognition.

It's as if Stalin and his removal of opponents from State portraits were employed against those the self-anointed do not accept.