Starry illusions by Farrukh Dhondy "Why the belief in astrology is still so widespread is puzzling. That fortune-tellers make their fortunes by publishing rubbish in the newspapers is not: Humans are vain enough to want to read a short paragraph about the possibilities of their existence over the next 24 hours or 365 days, even if they, as I do, forget the predictions seconds later. That people resort to faith in astrological “prediction” in an age when the human genome tells us so much that can be scientifically tested, is somewhat astounding — until one remembers that one is born every second."
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:27:07 +0000