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To: longshadow
"That there are still people who will ignore this powerful refutation leaves me speechless."

Depends on what 'shelf' you find your information, perhaps.

The not-so, "Amazing Randi" has written volumes 'proving' that psychic talents do not exist - you might read it; and believe it. . .

Does not make him right, however. . .

40 posted on 08/18/2003 7:30:36 PM PDT by cricket
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To: cricket
>>The babies were originally recruited as part of a medical study begun in London in 1958 into how the circumstances of birth can affect future health. More than 2,000 babies born in early March that year were registered and their development monitored at regular intervals.<<

How can you do a study on astrology using only babies from a particular time/place? Who were the controls, what are the details?

The last study I heard of, was csi cops (paranormal skeptics) that did a study in Britain about a prediction astrology makes on who would make a better athlete. I wish I could remember more details. They did the study, found out that astrology had a significantly greater than chance of predicting that outcome. They proceeded to phony the numbers up to make is non significant, and one of the scientists on their board quit over the issue with a ton of bad publicity for the organization.

The article at the beginning is silly, not even real science. It does not outline control groups, and it only studies one time/place for data.

I would have expected that from nonscientist astrologers, but not from real "scientists".

DK

64 posted on 08/18/2003 9:00:13 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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