A much shorter, and a much more telling list, would be of his "correct" predictions:
1) Velikovsky speculated that electromagnetic forces played a role in altering the orbits of the planets at a time when few astronomers paid much attention to magnetic fields.
- This turned out to be true, but not nearly to the degree to which Velikovsky had speculated. Velikovsky theorized that electromagnetic forces could profoundly alter the motion of planets over a matter of weeks, or even days. This is simply not the case.
2) Velikovsky predicted that Jupiter would emit radio waves.
-It was later confirmed that Jupiter did indeed emit radio waves. However, Velikovsky was spectacularly wrong in his prediction of the physical process responsible for the emission of said radio waves. He predicted that Jupiter would emit radio waves because it was a hot planet, like Venus... which also emits radio waves. In reality, Jupiter turned out to be a cold planet... encased in thousands of miles of ice. The actual mechanism by which Jupiter emits radio waves, (Because charged particles from the Sun are trapped and accelerated by Jupiter's magnetic field.) was completely missed by Velikovsky, and completely contradictory to the mechanism Velikovsky had assumed.
3)Velikovsky predicted that Venus would be hotter than anyone expected.
- Bingo! An actual hit! Of course, Velikovsky never did "show his work", and explain exactly how he came to his conclusion that Venus would be hotter than expected. But hey... he got one right.
Wow. Color me impressed.
Not.
