I disagree with your interpretation a majority of people lets interpret this to mean reasonably educated western people probably either haven t heard of Nostradamus or if they have heard haven t actually read his predictions In fact most people who have heard of him have probably also not read the predictions only descriptions of them in works which will generally seek to ascribe to them a particular impression for instance XXX refers to event YYY What does this mean Basically that these people do not recieve a balanced perspective of alternate ideas as to how each prediction may be interpreted Under these circumstances a reasonably logical person presented with only matrials written from a postive perspective could not be faulted for believing the prophecies i e the opinion of the majority even if of the direction you identify is irrelevant So basically I m saying that you re not wrong for having this opinion simply that the opinion is wrong