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📘 The pseudoscience wars by Michael D. Gordin

Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Immanuel Velikovsky and uses his personal archives to chart a behind-the-scenes history of his career, from early success with Worlds in Collision to his clashes with luminaries such as Carl Sagan. The book explores the shifting boundaries between accepted science and what is deemed pseudoscience, drawing connections to other fringe doctrines—creationism, Lysenkoism, parapsychology—whose Cold War roots echo in contemporary disputes over evolution and climate change. Gordin’s analysis shows that the question of how to separate knowledge from nonsense remains as urgent today as it was during Velikovsky’s heated public battles.

First publish date: 2012

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Michael D. Gordin

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