While listening to an NPR radio interview on astrology, I got increasingly impatient with the nonsense, and it just occurred to me that astrology is nothing but

While listening to an NPR radio interview on astrology, I got increasingly impatient with the nonsense, and it just occurred to me that astrology is nothing but quasi-random assertions acted upon by confirmation bias. Nicely confirmed by this key passage in the article: "Some repeat customers claimed I’d made very specific predictions, of a kind I never made. It dawned on me that my readings were a co-creation – I would weave a story and, later, the customer’s memory would add new elements. " This whole practice has endured for millenia, is built on the foundation of one of the most common of human mental error conditions. Makes me wonder about the likelihood of other massive fundamental erroneous practices we haven't yet learned to question.