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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Biorhythms
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 10:32:00 EST
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In article <935@cylixd.UUCP> cylixd!dave (Dave Kirby) writes:
>Is there anything to Biorhythms, or is it just neo-astrology?

I reject it for the same reason that I reject astrology: it's based
on such an absurd premise.  There might be some such cycles in people,
but I doubt that (a) they would all start nicely at age 0, (b) the
periods would be an exact integer number of days, (c) the periods
would be so consistent that one can extrapolate from age 0 to present,
(d) that everyone would have the same parameters.

Btw, assuming "astrology" means "using the positions of the heavenly
bodies to determine events on earth", there is at least one non-trivial
instance that works: tides.  (And perhaps weather, to some degree.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint