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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: The realm of physics, and the late Immanuel Velikovsky
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 06:26:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 06:26:32 1985
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> So the kindly Dr Einstein in a brief personal letter said some nice
> things to his old friend about his book?  That hardly counts as
> scientific support by Einstein for Velikovsky's ideas.  Now if you
> could produce a scientific paper by Einstein in support of Velikovsky,
> that would be something!

Or even a foreword to one of his books.  Einstein did this
for at least one technical book of which I am aware.  His
letter as quoted did not even seem to me to be particularly
supportive of the contents of the book, just a "thats nice,
you sure have an active imagination, best wishes" response.