Here's a related article from that occasional font of wisdom, Cracked.com.
Check out #3 and #2 in this list of lingering superstitions with global impact
-- in China, your astrological sign can cost you your job or your life.
5 Harmless Superstitions With Horrifying Global Consequences
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and take a broader look at the ripples that such preposterous notions send
butterfly-effecting across the world, you find that things we tend to th... |
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While you're there on the Cracked site, check out the other lead article "4
Ways America Screws the World (Nobody Talks About)." Full of fascinating facts
I never knew. For example, the fact that Mexico, which has more firearm deaths
per year than the U.S. does, but only has one gun store in the whole country.
All of the rest of the country's guns come from the U.S.
It was also fascinating to learn in the same article that America has more gun
stores than it has McDonalds.
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
It seems that Britain's ruling class have a secret penchant for asking the
stars for advice and some even believe it's the missing link in healthcare.
Those stupid scientists just don't understand it apparently. My favourite quote
here is that astrology may not stand up to scrutiny but is based on thousands
of years of observations. But majority of those were observing the wrong number
of planets....
Also interesting is the claim that criticism of astrology is racism! Sounds
like a desperate gambit to me.
This is the march of the idiocracy. We'll be back in the stone age before we
know it.
I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, says Tory MP: astrology - Telegraph
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MP:... David Tredinnick, the MP for Bosworth in Leicestershire, predicts that
if doctors look to the stars they will find ways to treat patients and take
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