Re: Robert Anton Wilson

From: Richard G. Bunker, Jr. (rick@bunker.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 1997 - 16:54:40 MDT


Mark Grant wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, John K Clark wrote:
>
> > The late great Carl Sagan had great fun pocking holes in this ignorant theory,
> > not that that's what made him great, it was too easy, like shooting fish in
> > a barrel.
>
> Wilson's main claim against Sagan appears to be that Sagan initially
> ranted against Velikovsky's ideas which were 'clearly' false, and then
> when many of those ideas turned out to be true Sagan adopted them as his
> own. There's a web page on the subject, but I don't have the URL handy.
>
> Personally I'm no fan of Sagan, given his love of politically-motivated
> science (e.g. 'Nuclear Winter').

Nuclear Winter -- the cure for global warming!

> Mark
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