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comment by mknod
mknod  ·  3816 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Hubski An Echo Chamber?

I don't want to speak for Elizabeth, but I read that as uneducated in the sense of "uneducated in a particular subject". Not necessarily education in the sense of a large amount of schooling.





elizabeth  ·  3816 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, exactly. Uneducated about astrology. I actually find astrology pretty unconvincing as a questionable belief compared to the other existing questionable beliefs like ghosts or magic. But that's just my opinion...

humanodon  ·  3816 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah ok, I read it a bit differently. From my experience, I see a lot of people scoff at "unscientific" beliefs or points of view, while not entirely understanding the science of many things themselves. Rather, the authority of Science in our time eclipses that of say, magic or ghosts and so some people are too quick to dismiss something, simply because it doesn't fall in the box of What Is Right.