A cover story two
weeks ago regarding tattoos
on local chefs was just plain silly, but a cover story giving implicit approval
to astrology is just plain irresponsible. This pseudoscience has been thoroughly debunked
since the ancient Greeks, and to treat it as a serious subject in your paper is
not only insulting to your reasonably educated readers, but by association implies
approval of other such nonsense such as spiritualism, fortune telling, healing
crystals, and clairvoyance.
At a time when a
large portion of the conservative population has chosen to reject the consensus
of the scientific community on a major issue for purely political reasons, it
is sad to see a liberal publication such as the Independent supporting a
pseudoscience which no doubt helps to undermine the respect for real science in
the eyes its more naïve readers.