Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience
@article{Thagard1978WhyAI, title={Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience}, author={P. Thagard}, journal={PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association}, year={1978}, volume={1978}, pages={223 - 234} }
Using astrology as a case study, this paper attempts to establish a criterion for demarcating science from pseudoscience. Numerous reasons for considering astrology to be a pseudoscience are evaluated and rejected; verifiability and falsifiability are briefly discussed. A theory is said to be pseudoscientific if and only if (1) it has been less progressive than alternative theories over a long period of time, and faces many unsolved problems, but (2) the community of practitioners makes little… CONTINUE READING
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