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Astrology makes definite claims, and the claims have shown to be false. Check out Shawn Carlson's 1985 piece "A Double Blind Test of Astrology" in Nature.
by claudiawerner 8y ago
Astrology makes definite claims, and the claims have shown to be false. Check out Shawn Carlson's 1985 piece "A Double Blind Test of Astrology" in Nature.
- msla 8y agoThe final part of science, then, is giving up paradigms which have been falsified. Astrologers... refuse to do this, to put it politely.
- claudiawerner 8y agoI agree! But the popular conception of science as merely something falsifiable doesn't include that condition - my whole point here (which for some reason people are downvoting me for...?) is that Popper's definition isn't sufficient, because it both includes pseudoscience (astrology) and excludes legitimate (exploratory) science.