Denver was host to the United Astrology Conference this past week. Check out the tracks… they’re embarrassing to anyone with a shred of intelligence.
You can hear about it on NPR.
Check out this excerpt from the piece:
In the report, a “professional astrologer” acknowledges that the horoscopes that appear in daily newspapers are nothing more than “cute little paragraphs that we all write because editors insist upon it.”
But, she adds, “real astrology” is “a huge and complex system,” a valid method of predicting events.
Of course it is…
I listened to the report. Astrologer Shelly Ackerman had nothing significant to say (Shocking, I know). Just meaningless babble about the alignment of — oh, who cares.
At one point, though, she called her brethren “Humanists,” which I think slanders many of my friends who don’t believe in such nonsense.
What’s frustrating is that the host goes along with it instead of ripping her wacky theories apart.
Did I mention this was NPR?
[tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]