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866: Astrology | Skeptical Sunday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Barnum Effect

People see specific details in vague platitudes and they fill in vague language with personal examples. It's a common logical fallacy that so-called psychics use as well. If you read horoscopes from a bunch of different sources, they're always completely different. So this doesn't hold a candle to science. Science makes highly sophisticated predictions based on quantitative calculations which are corroborated regularly out to six decimal places or every day. astrology absolutely does not do this ever.

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