Ed Conrad
Thu, Nov-20-03, 18:14
> "THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR" Foreward (by
> Alfred de Grazia)
>
In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr. Immanuel
Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in scientific and
intellectual circles about scientific theories and the
sociology of science.
>
Dr. Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts,
bolstered by his acknowledged scholarship, constituted a
formidable assault on certain established theories of
astronomy, geology and historical biology, and on the
heroes of those sciences.
>
Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and indeed
the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe.
>
The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented in
the first chapter of this book.
>
What must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms,
not only against th new Velikovsky theories but against the
man himself. Efforts were made to block dissemination of Dr.
Velikovsky's ideas, and even to punish supporters of his
investigations. <
>Universities, scientific societies, publishing houses, the
>popular press were approached and threatened; social
>pressures and professional sanctions were invoked to control
>public opinion.
>
There is no doubt that in a totalitarian society, not only
would Dr. Velikovsky's reputation have been at stake, but
also his right to pursue his inquiry, and perhaps his own
personal safety.
>
As it was, the "establishment" succeeded in building a wall of
unfavorable sentiment around him: to thousands of scholars the
name of Velikovsky bears the taint of fantasy, science-fiction
and publicity.
>
He could not be suppressed entirely. In the next few years he
published three more books. He carried on a large
correspondence. And he was helped by friends and by a large
general public composed of persons outside of the
establishments of science.
>
The probings of spacecraft tended to confirm -- never to
disprove -- his arguments.
>
> Eventually, the venomous aspects of the controversy, the
> efforts at suppression, the campaign of vilification loomed
> almost as large, in their consequences to science, as the
> original issue.
>
Social scientists, who had been generally aware of Dr.
Velikovsky's work, now found themselves in the thick of the
conflict. The involvement of the social and behavioral
sciences in the scientific theories of Velikovsky was higher
than had been earlier appreciated.
>
The social sciences are the basis of Velikvsky's work: despite
his proficiency in the natural sciences, it is by the use of
the methodology of social science that Velikovsky launched his
challenge to accepted cosmological theories.
>
No one pretends that this method is adequate. New forms of
interdisciplinary research are needed to wed, for example, the
study of myth with the study of meteorities.
>
Nor does one have to agree that Velikovsky is the greatest
technician of mythology, even while granting his great
conceptual and synthesizing powers.
>
Whatever the scientific substance, the controversy inself
could not be avoided or dismissed by behavioral science. <
>The problem of sicence is one of the agitating problems of
>the twentieth century. The issues are clear: WHO DETERMINES
>SCIENTIFIC TRUTH? (My caps, not his!) WHO ARE ITS HIGH
>PRIESTS, AND WHAT IS THEIR WARRANT? HOW DO THEY ESTABLISH
>THEIR CANONS? WHAT EFFECTS DO THEY HAVE ON THE FREEDOM OF
>INQUIRY, AND ON PUBLIC INTEREST?
>
In the end, some judgment M-U-S-T must be passed upon the
behavior of the scientific world and, if adverse, some
remedies must be proposed . . .
>
It is our hope that the publication of these papers in the
present volume (a revised and enlarged version) will make it
less easy for Velikovsky's new work to be suppressed, or
lightly dismissed.
>
We hope, too, that they will help scientists and interested
laymen everywhere to rehearse the problems and to REFORM THE
ERRORS of the vast enterprise of science.
>
===============================================
>
(But a half-century late, things sure haven't changed. The
disgraceful Scientific Community is still belittling honest
investigators, berating legitimate scientific evidence and
badmouthing and blackballing seekers of The Truth.)
>
General Accounting Office, WHERE ARE YOU?
>
Isn't it time YOU lived up to your responsibility to protect
the American taxpayers' dollar and put your giant foot down on
the scoundrels who -- via their deceit, deception, collusion
and conspiracy, THEIR TOTAL DISHONESTY -- are keeping the
fresh air of truth from replacing the $tink of Science?
>
===============================================
>
>Ed Conrad http://www.edconrad.com
>
Man as Old as Coal
>
==============================================
>
>
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> Alfred de Grazia)
>
In 1950, a book called Worlds in Collision, by Dr. Immanuel
Velikovsky, gave rise to a controversy in scientific and
intellectual circles about scientific theories and the
sociology of science.
>
Dr. Velikovsky's historical and cosmological concepts,
bolstered by his acknowledged scholarship, constituted a
formidable assault on certain established theories of
astronomy, geology and historical biology, and on the
heroes of those sciences.
>
Newton, himself, and Darwin were being challenged, and indeed
the general orthodoxy of an ordered universe.
>
The substance of Velikovsky's ideas is briefly presented in
the first chapter of this book.
>
What must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms,
not only against th new Velikovsky theories but against the
man himself. Efforts were made to block dissemination of Dr.
Velikovsky's ideas, and even to punish supporters of his
investigations. <
>Universities, scientific societies, publishing houses, the
>popular press were approached and threatened; social
>pressures and professional sanctions were invoked to control
>public opinion.
>
There is no doubt that in a totalitarian society, not only
would Dr. Velikovsky's reputation have been at stake, but
also his right to pursue his inquiry, and perhaps his own
personal safety.
>
As it was, the "establishment" succeeded in building a wall of
unfavorable sentiment around him: to thousands of scholars the
name of Velikovsky bears the taint of fantasy, science-fiction
and publicity.
>
He could not be suppressed entirely. In the next few years he
published three more books. He carried on a large
correspondence. And he was helped by friends and by a large
general public composed of persons outside of the
establishments of science.
>
The probings of spacecraft tended to confirm -- never to
disprove -- his arguments.
>
> Eventually, the venomous aspects of the controversy, the
> efforts at suppression, the campaign of vilification loomed
> almost as large, in their consequences to science, as the
> original issue.
>
Social scientists, who had been generally aware of Dr.
Velikovsky's work, now found themselves in the thick of the
conflict. The involvement of the social and behavioral
sciences in the scientific theories of Velikovsky was higher
than had been earlier appreciated.
>
The social sciences are the basis of Velikvsky's work: despite
his proficiency in the natural sciences, it is by the use of
the methodology of social science that Velikovsky launched his
challenge to accepted cosmological theories.
>
No one pretends that this method is adequate. New forms of
interdisciplinary research are needed to wed, for example, the
study of myth with the study of meteorities.
>
Nor does one have to agree that Velikovsky is the greatest
technician of mythology, even while granting his great
conceptual and synthesizing powers.
>
Whatever the scientific substance, the controversy inself
could not be avoided or dismissed by behavioral science. <
>The problem of sicence is one of the agitating problems of
>the twentieth century. The issues are clear: WHO DETERMINES
>SCIENTIFIC TRUTH? (My caps, not his!) WHO ARE ITS HIGH
>PRIESTS, AND WHAT IS THEIR WARRANT? HOW DO THEY ESTABLISH
>THEIR CANONS? WHAT EFFECTS DO THEY HAVE ON THE FREEDOM OF
>INQUIRY, AND ON PUBLIC INTEREST?
>
In the end, some judgment M-U-S-T must be passed upon the
behavior of the scientific world and, if adverse, some
remedies must be proposed . . .
>
It is our hope that the publication of these papers in the
present volume (a revised and enlarged version) will make it
less easy for Velikovsky's new work to be suppressed, or
lightly dismissed.
>
We hope, too, that they will help scientists and interested
laymen everywhere to rehearse the problems and to REFORM THE
ERRORS of the vast enterprise of science.
>
===============================================
>
(But a half-century late, things sure haven't changed. The
disgraceful Scientific Community is still belittling honest
investigators, berating legitimate scientific evidence and
badmouthing and blackballing seekers of The Truth.)
>
General Accounting Office, WHERE ARE YOU?
>
Isn't it time YOU lived up to your responsibility to protect
the American taxpayers' dollar and put your giant foot down on
the scoundrels who -- via their deceit, deception, collusion
and conspiracy, THEIR TOTAL DISHONESTY -- are keeping the
fresh air of truth from replacing the $tink of Science?
>
===============================================
>
>Ed Conrad http://www.edconrad.com
>
Man as Old as Coal
>
==============================================
>
>
> GREATEST CONSPIRACY IN THE HISTORY OF CONSPIRACIES
(Coal-age bones, teeth and soft organs -- Some Human)
>>
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix5/MVC-002S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Bones/MVC-006S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-013F.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-012F.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-001S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/SCORPIONS/MVC-039S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FINGER/MVC-008S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FINGER/MVC-011S.JPG < Petrified
> human toe (with toenail)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Au29/MVC-017S.JPG
>Petrified human finger (with fingernail AND Petrified human
>toe (with toenail):
>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Au29/MVC-016S.JPG