illuminating science

From a really good high school textbook, “New Century Senior Physics”, comes this choice quote on astrology:

Astrology slowly became the mumbo-jumbo side of sky watching, and was relegated to the irratioinal, non-sceintific and hoaxers club together with pyramid poewr, clairvoyance, ESP, water divining, flat earth theory, numerology, faxes from the dead, Feng Shui, Tarot cards, Bermuda Triangle, runes, UFOs, levitation, Philadelphia experiment, faces on the Moon and Elvis sightings, to name just a few.

Astrology has stagnated in the pre-scientific theoryies of thousands of years ago.  It ahas no testable hypotheses, no statistically reliable evidence of past successes, no research program, no predictive power that can be tested by experiment.  Astrologers make many extravagant claims of success bt they have never stood up to rigorous scientific scrutiny.  In short - astrology is an article of faith, of pseudo-scientific hocus-pocus and righly belongs in the comic section of the newspaper.

Awwwwwwesome.