• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    This ancient aliens nuttery has been around since the 1950s, with books by Erich Von Daniken and Immanuel Velikovsky. Much of their “proof” can be easily refuted by anyone with a basic understanding of science.

    Carl Sagan did an amazing point-by-point counter of Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” in his book “Brocas Brain”

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      Also, there’s some sources of Erich Von Daniken book that is just nazi propaganda masked as “research”.