Ah. Before my time. I remember the hoopla when it came out in the 70's... it seemed like most people read it and a lot believed it back then.

I do question the information on the site, particularly stuff like "After dramatic scientific confirmations of his historical reconstructions by many of the early space probes sent to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, he began to receive more requests to speak than he could honor."

There aren't any "dramatic scientific confirmations of his historical reconstructions."

There's no historical evidence of a global cataclysm.

Venus was never considered to be a comet/solar capture by astronomers.

The motion he describes the Earth and Venus taking during and after their encounter isn't possible.

We have written human records (not legends) of what happened 2600 and 3400 years ago. No huge planet-sized comets. No global cataclysms.

If the Earth stopped (shades of Nancy Liederer), then everything would have been scraped off the planet (remember, the earth's surface is traveling at approximately 1,000 mph at the equator. Now, imagine something going that fast suddenly stopping (going from 1000 mph to zero mph in seconds.) You'd have nobody left.)

And I also question the site saying that Velikovsky was a bestseller in the 1950's. Here's a compiled list of the top ten bestsellers (fiction and nonfiction) for the decade of the 1950's. Velikovsky isn't on any of those years:
http://www.caderbooks.com/best50.html

Nor the 1960's, either:
http://www.caderbooks.com/best60.html

Or the 1970's.
http://www.caderbooks.com/best70.html