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- From: news@fedfil.UUCP (news)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Velikovsky/Einstein/Cohen: Graverobbing
- Message-ID: <185@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 15:14:14 GMT
- Organization: HTE
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- Velikovsky on Cohen:
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- "As I reported earlier, Bernard Cohen, the historian of science of Harvard,
- took a vacillating position in relation to me and my work at the 1952
- symposium of the American Philosophical Society. In the abstract of his
- paper, he took an objective stance regarding the ultimate value of my work,
- but in the oral delivery and especially in the subsequent published paper,
- he relied on Payne-Geposchkin and put me down in one short sentence."
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- Harlow Shapeley, Cecelia Payne-Geposchkin and others at Harvard had been
- Velikovsky's foremost adversaries from the outset, and were involved in the
- early ban on Worlds in Collision, when McMillan was forced by academic boycot
- to drop the book.
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- Cohen, thus, is seen as less than an honest broker or a disinterested party.
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- Velikovsky made too many people in academia look bad. A number of things which
- they had used as cornerstone axioms in building the various edifices of their
- disciplines were summarily disproven and overthrown, including beliefs which
- had been accepted for over 100 years. How could they have missed all of that?
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- Establishment science attacked Velikovsky with all means at its disposal.
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- In particular, Albert Einstein, a friend and colleague of Velikovsky's from
- before either of them came to the U.S., died in 1955.
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- If establishment science had wanted a LEGITIMATE statement on the part of
- Einstein attacking Velikovsky and/or his works, they they had five years
- in which to get it. All they had to do was ask the man. And it's not like
- they had to travel to the north pole; Princeton New Jersey just isn't that
- hard to find.
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- Instead, we get this bullshit interview of Cohen's published two months after
- Einstein's death (since dead people aren't particular good at denying things),
- which the executor of Einstein's estate specifically denounced.
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- Ted Holden
- HTE
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