So I was looking through a 1980 era copy of Analog looking for an example of the game ads Metagaming used to run for an article/youtube about the history of Ogre I was thinking of writing. Flipping through it I found an old Alternative View column written by JP, in which he decided that Velikovsky had more scientific integrity than a group of American scientists, because they moved a scientific conference at the prodding of Margret Mead because the state it was originally going to be held in didn't sign the Equal Rights Amendment.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle: Kinda of a dick for over thirty years.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle: Kinda of a dick for over thirty years.