Editing James P. Hogan (writer) (section)

==Biography==
Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the [[Portobello Road]] area on the west side of London. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a scholarship, he began a five-year program at the [[Royal Aircraft Establishment]] at [[Farnborough Airfield|Farnborough]] studying the practice and theory of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. He was married four times and fathered six children.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holland |first1=Steve |title=James P Hogan obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/05/james-p-hogan-obituary |website=The Guardian |date=5 August 2010 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref>

Hogan worked as a design engineer for several companies and eventually began working with sales during the 1960s, traveling around Europe as a sales engineer for [[Honeywell]]. During the 1970s he joined the [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s Laboratory Data Processing Group and during 1977 relocated to [[Boston]], Massachusetts to manage its sales training program. He published his first novel, ''[[Inherit the Stars|Inherit The Stars]]'', during the same year to win an office bet.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-23 |title=Biography |url=http://www.jamesphogan.com/bio/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123015638/http://www.jamesphogan.com/bio/ |archive-date=23 January 2016 }}</ref>

He quit DEC during 1979 and began writing full-time, relocating to [[Orlando, Florida]], for a year where he met his third wife Jackie. They later relocated to [[Sonora, California]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lane|first1=Daryl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nn0eAAAAMAAJ&q=james+hogan+to+Sonora,+California|title=The Sound of wonder: interviews from "the Science fiction radio show"|last2=Vernon|first2=William|last3=Carson|first3=David|date=December 1985|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-233-7|language=en}}</ref> 

During his later years, Hogan adopted a number of contrarian opinions. He was a proponent of [[Immanuel Velikovsky]]'s version of [[catastrophism]], arguing Velikovsky's critics were part of "an entrenched priesthood" who refused to seriously examine Velikovsky even when some of his predictions were validated (such as Venus's extremely high surface temperature which was contrary to prevailing scientific opinion in the 1950s);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=37&cmd=sample&sample=79 |title=The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously |access-date=18 June 2006 |first=James P. |last=Hogan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081922/http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=37&cmd=sample&sample=79 |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> and as of 1999 Hogan accepted the [[Peter Duesberg]] hypothesis that AIDS is caused by [[pharmaceutical]]<ref name="AIDS Heresey and the New Bishops">{{cite book
 | last1 = Hogan
 | first1 = James P.
 | title = Rockets, Redheads & Revolution
 | publisher = [[Baen Books]]
 | date = April 1999
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rocketsredheadsr00hoga/page/151 151–173]
 | isbn = 0-671-57807-3
 | url = https://archive.org/details/rocketsredheadsr00hoga/page/151
 }}"Well here's what happens to politically incorrect science when it gets in the way of a bandwagon being propelled by 'lots' of money- and to a scientist who ignores it and attempts simply to point at what the fact seem to be trying to say."... "The 'side effects' <of AZT> look just like AIDS."</ref> use rather than HIV (see [[AIDS denialism]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamesphogan.com/bb/bulletin.php?id=78 |title=Bulletin Board: AIDS Skepticism |access-date=1 February 2007 |last=Hogan |first=James P. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081847/http://jamesphogan.com/bb/bulletin.php?id=78 |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> He criticized the idea of the [[gradualism]] of [[evolution]],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?cmd=sample&titleID=37| title=The Rush to Embrace Darwinism|access-date=1 February 2007|first=James P.|last=Hogan}}</ref><ref name="Evolution Revisited">{{cite book
 | last1 = Hogan
 | first1 = James P.
 | title = Rockets, Redheads & Revolution
 | publisher = [[Baen Books]]
 | date = April 1999
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rocketsredheadsr00hoga/page/175 175–192]
 | isbn = 0-671-57807-3
 | url = https://archive.org/details/rocketsredheadsr00hoga/page/175
 }}"My own belief, if it isn't obvious already, is that the final story will eventually come together along such catastrophist lines."</ref> though he did not propose theistic [[creationism]] as an alternative. Hogan [[climate change denial|was skeptical]] of scientific consensus about [[climate change]] and [[ozone depletion]].<ref name="Kicking the Sacred Cow">{{cite book|author=James P. Hogan|title=Kicking the Sacred Cow|year=2004|publisher=Baen|location=Riverdale, NY|isbn=0-7434-8828-8}}</ref>

Hogan believed that the [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust did not happen]] in the manner described by mainstream historians, writing that he found the work of [[Arthur Butz]] and [[Mark Weber (historian)|Mark Weber]] to be "more scholarly, scientific, and convincing than what the [[History is written by the victors|history written by the victors]] says".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamesphogan.com/jphcommentarchive.shtml |title=FREE-SPEECH HYPOCRISY (22 February 2006 commentary)|year=2006|access-date=3 May 2006|last=Hogan|first=James P. |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060503084516/http://www.jamesphogan.com/jphcommentarchive.shtml |archive-date = 3 May 2006}}</ref> In March 2010, in an essay defending Holocaust denier [[Ernst Zündel]], Hogan stated that the mainstream history of the Holocaust includes "claims that are wildly fantastic, mutually contradictory, and defy common sense and often physical possibility".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/bulletin.php?id=1179|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718014836/http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/bulletin.php?id=1179|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 July 2010|title=Here's To You, Ernst Zundel: A Lonely Voice of Courage|year=2010|access-date=15 July 2010|last=Hogan|first=James P.}}</ref>

Hogan died of heart failure at his home in Ireland on Monday, 12 July 2010, aged 69.<ref>{{cite news|first=Steven H.|last=Silver|work=SF Site|title=Obituary: James P. Hogan|url=http://www.sfsite.com/news/2010/07/12/obituary-james-p-hogan|date=12 July 2010|access-date=13 July 2010|archive-date=16 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516170834/https://www.sfsite.com/news/2010/07/12/obituary-james-p-hogan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>