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This memorandum by the Commission on Pseudoscience at the Russian Academy of Sciences Expert Council announces that astrology has no scientific grounds. <\/p>\n
Astrology has been considered the epitome of pseudoscience for centuries. However, many continue to believe that it holds scientific value and provides well-founded judgments about reality. This demonstrates the scale of obstacles faced by rational scientific thinking worldwide. A significant number of people continue to trust ideas whose falsehood has long been convincingly demonstrated.<\/p>\n
On December 18, 2023, the Commission published a Memorandum titled \u00abAstrology as Pseudoscience.\u00bb This new Commission Memorandum summarizes the main arguments against astrology and analyzes scientific data regarding the reasons for trusting it, despite its long-proven inadequacy. In its document, the Commission explains that astrology \u00abdoes not meet the methodological requirements demanded of a scientific discipline,\u00bb and \u00abexperimental tests of astrologers’ claims yield negative results.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abThrough this memorandum, the Commission states that astrologers’ assertions about the connection between the positions of celestial bodies and the characteristics of a person’s personality and destiny lack scientific basis. Astrology may serve as entertainment, but if astrological claims and methods are presented as objective or scientific, they should be characterized as pseudoscientific.\u00bb<\/p>\n