To the Boston Herald Editor:

John Silber's column Wednesday May 16 is yet another writer’s diatribe against a subject he neither knows nor understands. I realize columns are a forum to express opinion, but Silber's opinion is a woefully uninformed one.

The founders of the Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences worked long and hard to gain a state license while having to battle the ignorance of those such as Silber who will try anything to discredit that which they do not understand.

Silber would do well to shed his ignorance and examine some of the recent studies that support the astrological paradigm rather than react emotionally to something with which he doesn’t agree.

Perhaps the chancellor of a university should be more interested in expanding all sorts of knowledge in an academic setting rather than casting aspersions on another licensed institution of higher learning and the body that licensed it.

I also find it interesting that Silber excoriates the 1692 Massachusetts government for “legitimizing the superstition of witchcraft” rather than the actual hanging of those accused of the practice. Given this astounding statement, perhaps Silber would take issue with the Spanish Inquisition for “legitimizing the superstition of heresy” rather than the Inquisition’s history of torture.

Sincerely,

Frank Piechoski
Media Watch Chair
The Association For Astrological Networking (AFAN)

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