Re: Debunking pseudoscience: Why horoscopes really work

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 03:31:46 GMT

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    Hi Dace -

    >It's a fact of history that science developed in the shadow of capitalism.
    >See Luciano Pellicani, The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of
    >Modernity, Telos, 1994.

    Tell that to the guy that discovered fire.

    (Unless you want to say he sold the rights to the highest bidder....)

    - Wade

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