Science and Astrology | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_science


00:01:52 1 Introduction
00:03:00 2 Historical relationship with astronomy
00:06:02 3 Philosophy of science
00:06:22 3.1 Falsifiability
00:07:48 3.2 "No puzzles to solve"
00:09:26 3.3 Progress, practice and consistency
00:11:56 3.4 Irrationality
00:14:28 3.5 Quinean dichotomy
00:14:51 4 Tests of astrology
00:15:40 4.1 Carlson's experiment
00:17:17 4.2 Dean and Kelly
00:18:15 4.3 Other tests
00:19:34 4.4 Mars effect
00:21:29 5 Theoretic obstacles
00:22:09 5.1 Lack of consistency
00:24:01 5.2 Lack of physical basis
00:25:50 5.3 Lack of predictive power
00:27:02 5.4 Lack of mechanism
00:31:37 6 Psychology
00:34:28 7 Sociology
00:38:57 8 See also



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Astrology 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. Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as having no explanatory power for describing the universe. Scientific testing has found no evidence  to support the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.Where astrology has made falsifiable predictions, it has been falsified. The most famous test was headed by Shawn Carlson and included a committee of scientists and a committee of astrologers. It led to the conclusion that natal astrology performed no better than chance. Astrologer and psychologist Michel Gauquelin claimed to have found statistical support for "the Mars effect" in the birth dates of athletes, but it could not be replicated in further studies.  The organisers of later studies claimed that Gauquelin had tried to influence their inclusion criteria for the study by suggesting specific individuals be removed. It has also been suggested, by Geoffrey Dean, that the reporting of birth times by parents (before the 1950s) may have caused the apparent effect.
Astrology has not demonstrated its effectiveness in controlled studies and has no scientific validity, and is thus regarded as pseudoscience. There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth in the way astrologers say they do that does not contradict well-understood, basic aspects of biology and physics.