India, Feb. 6 -- It was the first class of the astrophysics course that I was teaching. As an introduction to the history of astronomy, I mentioned the fact that till a few centuries ago, astrology was indistinguishable from astronomy. But now, we treat astronomy as a science while astrology is not a science. One of the students immediately took issue with this arguing that astrology was also a science. What was more disheartening was that there were many others in the class who agreed with him. This was a class of students who had spent five years studying science and some of them would go on to have careers as teachers and scientific researchers.
But then, they are not alone. According to a recent report, the business of using astrolog...
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