Worse, catastrophism conjured up images of two famous pseudoscience
catastrophists Velikofsky and Von Daniken.
Erich von Däniken, the former hotel manager, is a catastrophist? I didn't
know that. He's famous for his exquisitely funny attempts to explain _all_
of human prehistory and early history as the work of extraterrestrials...
Däniken is a city in Switzerland that lies close to a nuclear power plant...
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