Dr. Silber's final act of desperation is to link Kepler College and its newly earned academic legitimacy with the hanging of witches in Massachusetts in 1692. He says that the State of Washington should not be excused for their folly. They stand exposed as ignorant, foolish and contemptuous of the public interest. What will stand exposed from this ill-conceived attack on academic freedom and Kepler College by Dr. Silber will only be Dr. Silber's own foolish and contemptuous ignorance. With or without Dr. Silber, we have moved into a new cultural relationship with astrology that pushes our academic boundaries.
Sciences are in the state of revolution.
Physics, once the hardest of hard-core science, has now gone soft. Theoretical physicists are spiritual seekers. Medical doctors and psychologists are integrating tools like astrology into their practice. In these modern times, judging astrology as nonsense demonstrates more about the observer than about the observed. Kepler College is not an aberration.