Astrology Is A Pseudoscience Essay

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events. Astrology is a study based off the position of the sun, stars, moon, and planets. This study involves observing the positioning of these celestial cosmos at the time of peoples’ births in belief that they will have an effect on their personalities, relationships, and economic fortunes. Astrology has been declared a pseudoscience by leading scientist in other fields for many years now. It is due to vagueness and lack of any scientific backing that, for this paper, we will be supporting the claim that astrology is a pseudoscience. We chose to focus our final report around the idea of astrology as a science. The question we are asking is whether or not astrology, …show more content…
Yet, they always come up short or their results raise more questions than it answered. An experiment done back in 2000 proves astrology is nothing but a mere guessing game. Ten prominent astrologers were asked to complete a survey and make a prediction about which political candidate would take office after the presidential election. Four of the astrologers predicted Bush, four predicted Gore, and the remaining 2 couldn’t make clear predictions. The predictions followed the polls of the US populations who was also divided. After the election ended, astrologers made the claim that, because Mercury was stationed directly on the night of the election, the answer was obvious who was going to win. If the answer was so obvious, then why did so many astrologers miss it? This survey is a perfect example to back up my claim for this report that astrology is a pseudoscience. Astrologer’s predictions are nothing more than educated guesses, and when their educated guesses happen to be right they do not have evidence to show how they got their