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> Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "science". I wasn't aware that astrology uses eve
by mediocrejoker 9y ago
> Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "science".
I wasn't aware that astrology uses even the pretense of math, however I'm admittedly not well-versed in astrology.
- stan_rogers 9y agoThere was a time when astronomy was only a component of astrology, and astrophysics/cosmology is what happened when science-minded astrologers figured out the whole thing couldn't work because their attempts to make ever more accurate "predictions" (soothsaying) based on ever more accurate predictions (of the positions of celestial bodies) told them the universe was arranged just a little bit differently than they'd supposed. What is now purely pseudoscience was once a proto-science; the woo was still woo, but there was actual science there as well.