In 1975, 186 American leading scientists, including 18 Nobel Prize winners, published a manifesto against astrology, accusing it as a pseudoscientific superstition. Through this and other relative case studies, the author argues that in the practice of science communication, it is necessary to make use of academic progress in science studies which included philosophy, history and society of science in order to avoid negative impacts on science communication from oversimplified and outdated viewpoints of science and naive science communication should be replaced by reflexive one.

science communication  /  astrology  /  scientism  /  scientific spirit