Henry H. Bauer

Critics, People

Henry H. Bauer (born Austria, 1931^[1]Henry H. Bauer’s personal website) is author of the book Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1984)

Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy

Main article: Beyond Velikovsky The History of a Public Controversy

In his book, Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy, Henry Bauer criticizes the research of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of Worlds in Collision (1950). Time magazine refers to Bauer’s book as “the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky.”^[2]Michael D. Lemonick/Gainesville, “Science on the Fringe Michael D. Lemonick/Gainesville, May 24, 2005 Bauer’s work on Velikovsky is also cited in a Science article on Velikovsky^[3]John W. Patterson, “Lessons of a Controversy: Beyond Velikovsky“, Science, vol. 228, issue 4705, pages 1304-1305, June 14, 1985. doi and by C. Leroy Ellenberger, editor of Kronos, a publication founded to explore Velikovsky’s work. ^[4]Leroy Ellenberger, A lesson from Velikovsky Skeptical Inquirer, reprinted from Kronos, Summer 1986, volume 10, issue 4, pages = 380-381. Bauer’s book is praised as “(a) very valuable contribution to the literature on a major controversy” by NASA Institute director Robert Jastrow,^[5]Henry H. Bauer, Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy 1984, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-06845-4. Back cover and Marcello Truzzi says that “Bauer’s remarkable book will be viewed, even by Velikovskians, as a great improvement over previous critical studies.”^[6]Ibid. beyond

Background

Bauer is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies, and emeritus dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (“Virginia Tech”).^[7]Biomedical Seminars: “Truth Stranger Than Fiction: HIV is Not The Cause of AIDS publ. Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Sep 12, 2007 Bauer earned his Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Sydney. He became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a publication devoted to fringe science, after his retirement in 1999.^[8]Ibid. seminar

Selected bibliography

• “Velikovsky and Social Studies of Science“, 4S Review, Sage Publications, Inc., Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1984), pp. 2-8
• “Velikovsky” in Gordon Stein (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, (1996) Prometheus Books, pp.781-88. ISBN 1573920215, ISBN 9781573920216
• “Velikovsky’s place in the history of science” (PDF), Skeptic (Altadena CA), 3 #4 (1995) 52-56
• “The Velikovsky Affair“, La Recherche, #205 (December 1988) 1448-1455. English-language version, Aeon, II #6 (May 1992) 75-84.

See also

• Charles Ginenthal, “Henry H. Bauer And Immanuel Velikovsky”, in Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky, 1996, Ivy Press Books.

External links

• Henry H. Bauer website
• Henry H. Bauer Papers at Virginia Tech
• Henry H. Bauer on Wikipedia
• The Bauer Collection, some of Bauer’s papers, stored at the Digital Library and Archives, a department in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.