From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:49:39 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

The name you're after is Velicovski.  Dunno the name of the book, but I DO
remember it was a hoot.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got Milk?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:45:55 -0800 (PST)

Since the Lees are discussing pseudoscience, I'm
hoping one of them can identify the author and exact
title of a book my dad once told me about.  According
to my dad, there is a book with a title something
along the lines of "the day the earth stood still"
(and no I'm not referring to the movie) where a guy
argues that the real reason the walls of jericho fell
down is because the earth briefly stopped moving.

--cathy
--- Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> wrote:
 > "Strong, Lee" wrote:
 >
 > >         Nevertheless, allow me to take your
 > concerns about my credulity
 > > seriously:  I do not believe in the "Shaverian"
 > theory of underground
 > > civilizations populated by dero and tero
 > descendants of the Atlans and
 > > Titans of Greek myth.  Nor do I equate
 > pseduo-science with real science.
 > > However, you appear to believe that pseudo-science
 > is so radioactive that no
 > > one can examine it without becoming hopelessly
 > contaminated by it.  I
 > > disagree.  I believe that the intelligent
 > individual can read (or watch)
 > > pseudo-science and derive entertainment value from
 > it... much as the
 > > intelligent individual can read (or watch) science
 > fiction and derive
 > > entertainment from it without concluding that
 > Thomas J. Whitmore was
 > > President of the United States in 1996.  And there
 > is always the possibility
 > > that a fringe belief will be validated and
 > accepted by serious scientists.
 > > There are multiple examples of this happening in
 > almost all branches of real
 > > science.  Shaverism is almost certainly not likely
 > to be validated by real
 > > science, but (with apologies to William
 > Shakespeare) there are more things
 > > in the world that are dreamed of by your small
 > philosophy, Horatio.
 > >
 >                      Your
 > > friend and sparring partner, Lee
 >
 > I'm with Lee on this one, as another fan of
 > pseudoscientific trash.  I
 > just happen to have a book next to the computer here
 > called "The Hollow
 > Earth", by Dr. Raymond Bernard, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. (I
 > think I got all the
 > periods in the right place.)  Front cover blurb:
 > "Dr. Raymond Bernard,
 > noted scholar and author of 'The Hollow Earth', says
 > that they true home
 > of the flying saucers is a huge underground world
 > whose entrance is at
 > the North Polar opening.  Dr. Bernard believes that
 > in the hollow
 > interior of the Earth lives a super-race which wants
 > nothing to do with
 > man on the surface.  They launched their flying
 > saucers only after man
 > threatened the world with A-bombs."  This is a
 > mass-market paperback; I
 > used to have a trade paperback.
 >
 > A quick look around the bookcases shows that some of
 > my favorites
 > ("Somebody Else is On The Moon", "Skycreatures --
 > Living UFOs") have
 > gone walkabout.  I need to do some serious sorting.
 > On the other hand,
 > there is something fitting about finding "The New
 > Industrial State" next
 > to "Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes".
 >
 >
 >
 > --
 > Steve Smith
 >  sgs at aginc.net
 > Agincourt Computing
 > http://www.aginc.net
 > "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has
 > to make sense."
 >

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