Oh, I'm psychic... horoscopes, crystal balls, astrology.

And it turns out that in India there's a long tradition of names being based on horoscopes and star constellations present at the time of birth.

And it turns out that in India there's a long tradition of names being based on horoscopes and star constellations present at the time of birth.

And exactly as I expected, the books were generally limited to religious or political subjects, specialist books, children's books, and miscellaneous books about cooking and beauty and horoscopes.

Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

Indeed, while people are entitled to believe in horoscopes, trust in crystals to bring good luck, or buy into quack medicine, such junk science becomes a serious threat to society when it is allowed to influence public policy.

In 1995, the cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward a society in which, clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.