The term “pseudoscience” gets thrown around quite a bit these days, most notably in debates about the dominant consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Say “pseudoscience,” and immediately a bunch ...

The papers of Russian-born American scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky have a new home in the Princeton University Library. His daughter, Ruth Sharon of Princeton, has donated the papers for use ...

Immanuel Velikovsky at the 1974 American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in San Francisco In the 1940s, a curiously enigmatic figure haunted New York City’s great libraries, his ...

Princeton historian Gordin provides an often compelling but sometimes plodding account of the scientific and cultural impact of Immanuel Velikovsky’s book, Worlds in Collision, which soared to the top ...

IN THE MONTHS since Todd Akin, the GOP candidate for Senate in Missouri, made his career-crushing gaffe about “legitimate rape,” columnists and medical professionals countrywide have publicly debunked ...

Princeton University historian Michael Gordin has been researching pseudoscience for a new book, and he has good news and bad for those scientists determined to keep their pursuit free of imposters.

This article originally appeared in the June 2012 issue of Architectural Digest. Russian Dmitry Velikovsky has some decorating advice for his fellow countrymen: Tone it down. In a nation where sudden ...

To the Editors of the CRIMSON: A copy of the Registration number of your publication came into my hands. It contains the following statement by Professor Shapley: "The claim that Dr. Velikovsky's book ...

This article originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of Architectural Digest. If it's true, as many Russians are fond of saying, that sprawling, tumultuous Moscow is nothing more than a ...