>> michael gordon is writing about pseudo-science in america, looking at a the bella koski affair.bella koski is forgotten today but in 1950 published a fantastic bestseller that created quite a frenzy called world and can coalition. from the catastrophic floods, the results are, that came precariously precariously close to earth and settle into orbit as venus. he was immediately at bestseller but it was also vehemently attacked by scientist who said it was absolute bunk gordon is looking out by science practice of the he-man way to it. they felt the need to come out and talk about this. the reception of his book and kind of talked about how this reflects on our current debate in science of how we determined what is legitimate scientific inquiry that is often discussing