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Originally Posted by Byrd
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Originally Posted by milli360
Another fine theory brought down by mundane facts! Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision was published in 1950. The (sympathetic) link says it was the number one bestseller in the nation. |
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. |
Most people read it? What do you mean by "when it came out"?
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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:
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Those appear to be top tens for each year. However, he
probably didn't make Publisher's Weekly either. OTOH, I did a search of the NY Times Best Seller lists and found that it appeared in an article titled Best Sellers on Apr. 30, 1950. I did not purchase the article, so I haven't confirmed that it was actually on the NY Times best seller list.