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Astrology and a Few Pseudosciences

These Are the Things that Need to Be Debunked

Tony Berard
4 min readMay 23, 2022

Here is the master list of pseudosciences from Wikipedia:

Astrology

Our first stop in this adventure (or misadventure, really) is Astrology. This tired belief system has been around forever. It actually was debunked centuries ago with a pair of twins who had very different life outcomes. Had astrology been correct, their lives should have been very similar because they were born under the same star configuration. Here’s a quote from the Wiki on astrology:

The Roman orator Cicero objected to astrology: By Glauco92 — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5582672

Astrology (see also Astrology and science) — consists of a number of belief systems that hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events or descriptions of personality in the human world. Several systems of divination are based on the relative positions and movement of various real and construed celestial bodies. Scientific testing of astrology has been conducted and no evidence has been found to support the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.[7] Where astrology…

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Tony Berard
Tony Berard

Written by Tony Berard

I have lately been constructing arguments against God and the supernatural. I have proven that stuff doesn't exist with science equations. I aspire to be great.

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