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Immanuel Velikovsky and the return of the fringe

Michael D. Gordin: The pseudoscience wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the birth of the modern fringe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 304pp, $29.00 HB, $17.50 PB

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Pinch, T. Immanuel Velikovsky and the return of the fringe. Metascience 23, 525–529 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9878-7

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