Astrology is bullshit . But for some ground , many Americans still conceive that astrologists have the power topredict the future . The Los Angeles Times even run for a taradiddle back in October that cover earnestly about the predictions that some astrologists had for the 2016 presidential election . you may probably guess how that turned out .
Less than a calendar month out from Election Day , the paper reported on an astrology convention withhundreds of participant . The International Society for Astrological Research ’s conference in Costa Mesa , California featured at least half a dozen speaker who all made their emphatic predictions that Hillary Clinton was conk to win .
“ Unanimously , with vary grade of certainty , the astrologers predicted Clinton would win the presidency , ” the LA Times proclaimed without a hint of skepticism .
“ Hillary Clinton will win . I give it 100 percent , ” American astrologer Edith Hathaway tell the newspaper . Clinton did n’t gain ground .
“ It does n’t prefigure well for Donald Trump , ” said an astrologer from Serbia , Aleksandar Imsiragic . It boded very well for Trump , in fact .
Christeen Skinner , an astrologist from London , allege that Clinton was by all odds plump to deliver the goods , but she made sure to hedge , as all good crap creative person do . Skinner said that “ I just do n’t see that inauguration taking place . ” According to the Times , Skinner believe that there might be something like the influenza that would hinder her ability to be at the inauguration .
Skinner is an astrologer who particularize infinancial forecasts , so it only seems instinctive that she would be the one to hedge the most . When money is at stake , you have to ensure to provide a back door when you ’re inevitably wrong about something .
But it ’s still shock to me that the Los Angeles Times would report on these astrologist without a single mention that they peddle in pseudo - scientific folderal . This is , after all , a newspaper publisher in the second crowing city in the United States — not a subject matter board at the local carbon monoxide - op .
I theorize we ca n’t be too hard on them though . The astrologers were about as useful asNate Silverin that way .
[ Los Angeles Times ]
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