Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979): psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, comparative mythologist, Cassandra of as-yet-to-come catastrophe, bestselling author, and would-be interlocutor of the electromagnetic, intraplanetary forces responsible for cataclysmic Biblical events such as Noah’s Flood and the Tower of Babel’s collapse.
Read more in Michael D. Gordin’s The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe.
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