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DetlefK

(16,547 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 06:13 AM Feb 2015

British MP: Opposition to astrology is driven by superstition, ignorance and prejudice [View all]

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"Ninety per cent of pregnant French women use homeopathy. Astrology is a useful diagnostic tool enabling us to see strengths and weaknesses via the birth chart."
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"Astrology was until modern times part of the tradition of medicine ..."
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&quot Scientists) are also ignorant, because they never study the subject and just say that it is all to do with what appears in the newspapers, which it is not, and they are deeply prejudiced, and racially prejudiced, which is troubling."

http://observationdeck.io9.com/british-mp-sounds-like-a-parody-is-actually-for-real-1687922074/+riamisra



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I agree. If only the reliability of homeopathy and astrology had been studied for a few centuries, then it would all be so clear!!!!!!

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