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Thread #89208   Message #1721480
Posted By: Little Hawk
18-Apr-06 - 08:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
Subject: RE: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
Yes, of course, bobad. I'm not really talking about what the professional science community say among themselves here...but rather about what a special interest group (such as the drug companies) says to the public...via advertising. They will quote studies which say their drug is great and has no bad side effects. They will not quote studies which say the opposite. Both sets of studies may exist, and both may be valid and reproducable...strictly within the test guidelines under which they were done...or not.

There's all manner of propaganda out there.

In the case of astrology, it's a much smaller field of human activity involving far less money than is the drug industry, so there's not much likelihood of enough studies even being done to secure really solid and conclusive evidence, is there?

There's plenty of evidence out there already to suggest that meat-eating can cause a tremendous number of degenerative diseases...but there's also a huge industry and a huge cultural tradition supporting meat-eating. This means you will hear conflicting views about it from many sources, most of whom have an ax of some kind to grind...as do many people when the subject of astrology comes up.