arivero
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Originally posted by selfAdjoint
I presume he means the "moon sign books" used by some farmers and fisherment. But to assert "accuracy" he should be able to site specific controlled experiments showing them to be accurate. For example give fake moon sign books - with different numbers - to a random sample of fishermen, and the regular books to another random sample of the same size. Then see of there was any statistically meaningful difference between the fishing success (defined by some objective criterion) of the two groups.
I'll bet he can't do that. It's just the usual phony spin.
I am sure of that, but the problem is that a good "moon sign book" actually takes real facts into account, as for instance to consider the rain fallen in an area during winter or the quantity of snow accumulated. This mix of science and pseudoscience is a most difficoultous thing to debunk.