Astrology Is NOT Mumbo Jumbo; Britain's Foremost Stargazer Answers the Sceptics
Grant, Russell, Sunday Mirror (London, England)
IS Astrology just a lot of rubbish? Russell Grant gives his predictions for '96 in our 40-page special star guide, but this week has seen our astrologer locked in mortal combat with the country's No 1 astrology sceptic, Professor Richard Dawkins.
The two went head-to-head in a debate on BBC's Newsnight, chaired by Jeremy Paxman, after Dawkins launched an attack in the Independent On Sunday, declaring that there is absolutely no scientific basis for astrology and that astrologers should be jailed for fraud. Here Russell hits back.
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Article title: Astrology Is NOT Mumbo Jumbo; Britain's Foremost Stargazer Answers the Sceptics.
Contributors: Grant, Russell - Author.
Newspaper title: Sunday Mirror (London, England).
Publication date: January 7, 1996.
Page number: 19.
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