On Monday, 22 February 2016 17:55:14 UTC, Col wrote:
On 21/02/2016 22:12, John Hall wrote:

Yes, I spotted that too. One really would think that even someone with
an arts background (which I suspect he has) wouldn't mix up the words
"astronomy" and "astrology", and that even if he did the sub-editor
would ask him whether that was what he meant.

Must admit I had to re-read it to find out what the problem was. You
read what you expect to read i guess. So it's easily missed but then I'm
not a journalist writing articles for a national newspaper.....

Yes, I agree that it is easily missed. I did too. Some people even mix up geologists and archaeologists because they both scrabble around in the dirt :-)