About this episode

This episode features a discussion with Carlos Orsi about the science of astrology and its impact on people's beliefs.

This episode is a fun book review with a new author who provides a comprehensive review of astrology, the source of generic horoscopes and perhaps serves as a gateway drug to astronomy for the anti-science crowd. We’ll find out about the history of this occult practice and why people believe that the month of their birth might have an impact on who they should date. Carlos Orsi is an award-winning Brazilian journalist with more than thirty years of experience in science writing. He’s currently editor-in-chief of Revista Questão de Ciência (Question of Science Magazine), author of the Substack Idea Smasher, and the author of several books of science popularization in Portuguese, with essays translated into Spanish and English. What Science Says About Astrology is his first book in English.

People in this episode

Host: Al Scott

Guest: Carlos Orsi

Topics covered

• astrology
• science writing
• horoscopes
• belief systems
• history of astrology
• journalism

Keywords

• astrology
• horoscopes
• Carlos Orsi
• science writing
• belief systems
• history of astrology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Revista Questão de Ciência

Books & works: What Science Says About Astrology

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