Santa Clause, Peter Pan, Astrology, Woo

Neil Spencer, a so-called "Astrologer", is complaining about Richard Dawkins because he thinks Dawkins unfairly lumps astrology with religion in his many books and writtings. Of course Spencer winds up making the connection even stronger and more obvious when he writes:

Few things arouse the indignation of science's hard hats like non-conventional approaches to healing. Homeopathy and acupuncture are particularly repellent since they work through mechanisms unknown to the laws of physics.

They do not "work", none of them. One of countless examples of their horrid ignorance is that even the almighty Abrahamic God didn't know that simply boiling bad water saves countless lives. After many paragraphs of mumbo-jumbo in the article, Spencer remains so dense that he is oblivious to the core truth and that is that astrology (and it's fellow mythes) know nothing and they have proven over and over again to be unable to affect anything, describe anything or predict anything that turns out to be real. They make their claims but have no proof and only require that the followers suspend the requirement of results and "believe". Anyone can become an astrologer by just claiming to be one. According to Peter Pan we can all fly by just thinking we can. Santa is child abuse... All superstitions are deadly for the same reason. Promoting them should be a capital crime. They in turn say that atheism is a religion. That is like saying everyone not infected with leprosy has a disease.