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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: astrological software
Message-ID: <473@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 12:00:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 12:00:32 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 08:11:12 EDT
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Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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Summary: 

>Astrology is NOT a game, bozo.  Allow me to make an analogy.
>
>Before the invention of the geiger counter or photographic film,
>I could have told you that I believed in a mystical and magical force
>known as "nuclear radiation", and that if you weren't careful, it could
>make you sick and die.  And you could have laughed in my face and made
>fun of me, because I wouldn't have been able to prove its existance to
>you in your "scientific" laboratory.  But, years later, with the help of
>a piece of electronics which you *do* believe in, I can prove to you that
>some chemicals have this mystical force.  If you didn't believe in electronic
>instruments, or understand how they worked, even the geiger counter would be
>insufficient to "make" you believe in nuclear radiation.
>

I have only quoted a small part of the article to povide context.

Without intending to be sarcastic, and with utmost seriousness, I suggest
that it might be very enlightening to think about how clear distinctions
between the following four words might be made:

	A. Religion

	B. Superstition

	C. Science

	D. Pseudo-science
-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.
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