Does Neil deGrasse Tyson believe in astrology?

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00:00The question I have for you, Neil, is how do you feel about astrology?

00:03Oh, astrology?

00:04Do you believe in it?

00:04That's a great question.

00:05You are a Libra.

00:06Happy belated birthday, October 5th, right?

00:08Okay.

00:09Do you, okay, what do you think about astrology?

00:11Uh-oh.

00:12So there's a whole, Merlin tackles this in the book.

00:15Okay.

00:16Yeah, so Merlin has a lot of very short answers to questions, very tight and clean, and others

00:22required a little more conversation about it, and the one on astrology is it.

00:29I will say that, I can quote Shakespeare.

00:33Okay, go for it.

00:35Out, down spot.

00:36Yeah.

00:38Your fate, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but within ourselves.

00:43Oh, okay.

00:44So don't rely on the stars.

00:45Such a Libra thing to say.

00:49Here's what I've done.

00:51Rather than you go straight to your own heart scope and read it and say, wow, I should pay

00:54attention to that, do the opposite experiment.

00:57And I do this.

00:57I'm in front of 1,000 people.

00:59I pick one of the 12 horoscopes at random, and I read it.

01:05And I ask people, whose horoscope did I just read?

01:09And three quarters of the hands go up.

01:11Yeah.

01:12There it is.

01:13Do you need any further evidence that it's all just bullshit?

01:16Okay.

01:17There we go.

01:18There we go.