Carl Sagan once fought for the right and asked that it be treated as an honor or duty that every scientist examine claims no matter how unrealistic in order to expose the greater amount of people to the scientific method and basic science. Carl Sagan's debunking of Velikovsky was just as snarky if not more so.
For those of ill-uniformed..Velikovsky had similar theories.
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Carl Sagan once fought for the right and asked that it be treated as an honor or duty that every scientist examine claims no matter how unrealistic in order to expose the greater amount of people to the scientific method and basic science. Carl Sagan's debunking of Velikovsky was just as snarky if not more so.
For those of ill-uniformed..Velikovsky had similar theories.
Both sides of the Carl Sagan and Velikovsky affair:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/science/velikovsky.htm
Some interesting reading as Velikovsky also was a Hoyle believer..