This is why Superstition Should be Debunked
Mon, 23/03/2009 - 21:13
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Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money.Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. By existing law neither Beethoven nor nature can sue, but perhaps existing law could be changed. If the methods of Astrologers were really shown to be valid it would be a fact of signal importance for science. Under such circumstances astrology should be taken seriously indeed. But if - as all indications agree - there is not a smidgen of validity in any of the things that astrologers so profitably do, this, too, should be taken seriously and not indulgently trivialised.
We should learn to see the debauching of science for profit as a crime.
Richard Dawkins
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/...
