Chemical transmutation - Suggests that mystical superstitious Alchemists know things that modern advanced chemists have missed. Instantaneous meteor sounds These sounds are impossible. The speed of sound is slow, and it takes seconds, if not minutes, for the acoustic waves to reach our ears. If people report that they hear sounds which are simultaneous with meteors, then those people are crazy or liars. If Acupuncture actually works, there must be some other explanation, like endorphin stimulation or something.
Western science is never wrong.
Creationism - Suggests that fundamentalist Christians are right. Suggests that neo-Darwinist Evolutionary Theory is flawed. If astrology really works, then it suggests that superstitions are real. It isn't true, therefor we are right to reject any evidence to the contrary. Biologists could not have missed it.