Paul H. Wrote:
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> Unfortunately, I cannot find the paper in which
> after the Cretaceous-Paleogene
> (formerly Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction event
> became widely accepted,
> Walter Alvarez and other early proponents of it
> were interview. Alvarez and
> some other earlier supporters of the theory that
> an asteroid impact caused this
> extinction event stated that Velikowsky's earlier
> books caused some difficulty
> in getting his ideas accepted because of the bad
> reputation that his arguments
> gave catastrophism in general. However, other
> people, who were interviewed,
> said that Velikowsky's efforts had no effect at
> all on the acceptance of this
> theory in their opinion.
>
Are you thinking of David Morrison's paper, "Velikovsky at Fifty: Cultures in Collision on the Fringes of Science", in Skeptic Vol.9 No.1, 2001?