So an astrologer started mouthing off skeptics on Twitter today, so I confronted him, explaining my view and my skepticism. Ironically he stated that he "didn't like the insults skeptics throw at astronomers", and then proceeded to call skeptics a barrage of insulting names.
Anyway, we debated what constitutes "evidence" (I argued against his view that anecdotal evidence was useful), the JREF, testing astrologers, and back and forth it went.
So eventually I challenged him to give me a reading, and he agreed. I sent him my birth details, and he is working on the reading now. Parts of it he is reading out on Twitter, but I am not commenting on it until he has made a final decision and sent the entire thing to me (I don't want him to be influenced by my action).
I am also consulting some other astrologers on doing a separate reading, since I suspect some of it he is simply taking out of my conversations with him. If astrology is true, I should get a similar (and not massively contradictory) reading right?
Stay tuned!
Anyway, we debated what constitutes "evidence" (I argued against his view that anecdotal evidence was useful), the JREF, testing astrologers, and back and forth it went.
So eventually I challenged him to give me a reading, and he agreed. I sent him my birth details, and he is working on the reading now. Parts of it he is reading out on Twitter, but I am not commenting on it until he has made a final decision and sent the entire thing to me (I don't want him to be influenced by my action).
I am also consulting some other astrologers on doing a separate reading, since I suspect some of it he is simply taking out of my conversations with him. If astrology is true, I should get a similar (and not massively contradictory) reading right?
Stay tuned!
