re: #523 The Mother Of All Pies

Wait, what? That’s a new one.

Classical astrology aside, there’s been an interesting statistical fluke called the Gauquelin effect or Mars effect. Gauquelin was a staunch critic of the classical astrology, but during his studies he discovered a statistically significant - though small - correlation between planets and future occupations of children. That was an interesting episode because the normally respectable CSICOP made total asses of themselves in their attempts to debunk the effect, which fact also demonstrated a weak side of the organized skepticism. And I’m saying this as a hardcore skeptic myself.

A possible explanation of the effect was found later and it’s pretty interesting in its own right: astrology-and-science.com