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  • Re: THE ZODIAC

    From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 9 19:59:59 2021
    On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:31:16 -0800 (PST), the following
    appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by "ghamm...@gmail.com" <ghammond928@gmail.com>:

    ..............................The Zodiac
    .
    ...On the suggestion of a colleague I checked Google
    about a possible relation of the 12-zodiac signs to the
    12-Olympian gods.

    And someone *else* who doesn't grok "on topic"...

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Bob Casanova on Fri Dec 17 16:22:22 2021
    On Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:59:59 -0700, Bob Casanova wrote:

    On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:31:16 -0800 (PST), the following
    appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by "ghamm...@gmail.com" <ghammond928@gmail.com>:

    ..............................The Zodiac
    .
    ...On the suggestion of a colleague I checked Google
    about a possible relation of the 12-zodiac signs to the
    12-Olympian gods.

    And someone *else* who doesn't grok "on topic"...


    I was curious, so I retrieved the original control messages from ftp.isc.org, and they say:

    For your newsgroups file:
    sci.skeptic Skeptics discussing pseudo-science.

    I was around back in '98, but I can't say I really remember
    much about the group.

    Will point out that the sword cuts both ways, and that a claim
    that "climate science is pseudo-science" is a pseudo-scientific
    claim in and of itself.

    (And, also, considerable good could come about by allaying the
    fears of vaccine skeptics/cynics...)

    (Anyone know off the top of their head where the current charter is?)

    Finally: Astrology is pseudo-science!

    --
    -v

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 17 13:34:12 2021
    On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:22:22 -0000 (UTC), the following
    appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by vallor
    <vallor@cultnix.org>:

    On Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:59:59 -0700, Bob Casanova wrote:

    On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:31:16 -0800 (PST), the following
    appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by "ghamm...@gmail.com"
    <ghammond928@gmail.com>:

    ..............................The Zodiac
    .
    ...On the suggestion of a colleague I checked Google
    about a possible relation of the 12-zodiac signs to the
    12-Olympian gods.

    And someone *else* who doesn't grok "on topic"...


    I was curious, so I retrieved the original control messages from ftp.isc.org, >and they say:

    For your newsgroups file:
    sci.skeptic Skeptics discussing pseudo-science.

    I was around back in '98, but I can't say I really remember
    much about the group.

    Check my reply in "The Profound Junk Science of Climate";
    your post precedes it by less than an hour, so you may have
    already seen it.

    Will point out that the sword cuts both ways, and that a claim
    that "climate science is pseudo-science" is a pseudo-scientific
    claim in and of itself.

    (And, also, considerable good could come about by allaying the
    fears of vaccine skeptics/cynics...)

    (Anyone know off the top of their head where the current charter is?)

    Finally: Astrology is pseudo-science!

    Not even that, IMHO.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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