Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895 – 1979) was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. wiki

Criticism

• Martin Gardner (1957), Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, chapter 3.
• Carl Sagan, Scientists Confront Velikovsky and Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science.
• Henry Bauer, (1985), "Inside the Velikivsky Affair", Skeptical Inquirer 9 (3): 284–288.
• Robert Forrest, (1983). Venus and Velikovsky: The Original Sources, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol 8, #2, Winter 1983-1984, 154-164.
• Stephen Jay Gould, Velikovsky in Collision.
• Michael Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of Modern Europe (Chicago, 2012). review review