I've seen it and it's wonderful. While the program is unlikely to persuade people who read their horoscopes everyday and take it seriously, hopefully it can ignite conversations about Dawkins' assertion that mystics, seers, and the like contribute to a general ignorance amongst the population of science and a rejection of reason and logic. He quite rightly points out how people who believe in astrology, ESP, and the like are more than happy to take advantage of the fruits of science and reason when it suits them and to turn their backs when it doesn't. It says quite a bit on how the human psyche works. Here's the part about astrology:
You'd think people would have stopped allowing themselves to be in front of the camera with him by now.
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I have *known* about torrents for a long time, I just never knew how to work em before now. Of course, with no internet in sight, I'm not actually working em now, am I?
Leave astrology alone, it never hurt you.
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