Astrology: Fact or Fiction?
A significant percentage of the population believes in astrology. This is the notion that the positions of the stars and planets in the sky at the moment of your birth have an influence on your characteristics, and that their positions over time influence daily events. Can this be possible? By what mechanism does this influence propagate? If it's true, why haven't we encountered anything like this in our study of astronomy? Shouldn't we be able to do experiments to test its validity? We sure can. Let's take a real good look at what astrology proposes, and see if we can to the bottom of whether there is any truth to it or not.
Large-scale study showing no correlation between date of birth and personality: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Astrologers can't match natal charts to psychological profiles: www.objectiveastrology.net/upl...
More failure by astrologers: www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...
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As a scientist, I can never accept anything as dumb as astrology. I'm a Taurus, and we're very stubborn.
Well of course "gravity" doesn't determine your personality when you're born. It's density and buoyancy!
Dude, that is SUCH a Libra thing to say.
I love how astrology keeps things so vague and broad that every sign fits everyone in some way
I completely disagree. The position of stars has had a massive effect on my life. More specifically the positions have cause annoying and gullible people to spew nonsense at me.
I told an astrology believer that I didn’t believe in astrology and broke down reasons as to why I didn’t believe in it and they said the typical “that’s such a (my sign) thing to say” and with that response I came to the conclusion that astrology is nothing more than space racism.
The fact that we need to explain this to adults is sad
I’m an Astrophysicist and my fiancé “believes” in Astrology. We have had conversations on how it’s pseudoscience at best and isn’t really and she completely agrees, but at the end of the day she still chooses to be interested in it because the claims “it’s fun” and she wants to “believe in something.” I’ve found myself enjoying entertaining Astrology, despite knowing it doesn’t actually have any Physical sway on the real world.
One of my schoolmates and I were born the same day, same hospital, 40 minutes apart. We couldn’t be more different and our life experiences are not the same at all. But hey, we once both got a dog at some point in our life, so, ASTROLOGY
This reminds me of when I was little and found out I was a libra, and I was mad because all the other signs had some sort of animal and mine just had a measuring tool
In high school I was talking to this girl in Spanish class every day. One time we had a project together and she asked the question: what is your sign? I told her. She then did the “really? Ugh, we aren’t compatible…” after literally being compatible and it all ended… lol
I happen to be a fraternal twin. 12/21/1985. We are almost NOTHING alike. For me, that was "book closed" on astrology. I love this guy.
Broke up with a girl once because she said "astrology is a science".
"Big career move today!"
Your ability to mimic, not just the aesthetic of 80's science videos, but their entire style & essence is a thing of wonder & joy! Thank you
I love how he proposes possible counterarguments, defeats them, and then repeatedly goes, "Still not convinced? Here's more evidence. I'm going to put more nails in this coffin than you would ever expect because this needs to fucking go."
Confirmation bias:
as a leftist and feminist who believes science is a key pillar to equality and freedom for all people-and having to deal with SO MANY of my comrades who deeply believe in this shit-this video gave me a sense of catharsis that nearly brought me to tears.
When I was younger and more impressionable I was interested in astrology. As I got older, it just doesn't hold the same weight as it once did in my mind. It's not science. At best, it's a way for people to socialize in my opinion.
My Astronomer teacher, on the first day of class, the first thing we did was debunk astrology collectively as a class.