When Sagan fell ill, shortly before his death, a wide
number of
professional astronomers and planetary scientists I know refused, some
rather insultingly, to sign a get-well card someone else was passing
around at a conference I was at.
Knowing how Velikovsky was treated by astronomers, and Halton Arp was
treated by astronomers (they wouldn't let him play with their toys,
and refused him telescope time), perhaps this says more about astronomers.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com