House of Mars is a funny one... astrology-->eminent achievement
Apparently, toward the end of his life (died 1997, papers from 1990 onward), Hans Eysenck coauthored and promoted some rather dubious, one might say obviously fraudulent, findings about personality and serious illness. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105318822045 …pic.twitter.com/4laxL35YdI
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That stuff is silly, but apparently people born in Winter do become chess champions more often.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/season-of-birth-and-chess-expertise/BB9776517BAC84B6CF28636E7B8985C7 …
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This topic is covered in the most recent biography of Eysenck: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hans-Eysenck-Mind-Shapers-Philip/dp/023024940X …
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Cool, didn't know about that one.
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My PhD supervisor wrote it. Pelosi has targeted Eysenck for decades. But Eysenck's scientific decline began in the 1970s, long before this Grossarth-Maticek stuff. I guess he realised that as he didn't get acknowledged for doing Nobel-worthy science, he may as well do nonsense.
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Do you recommend a good source on personality and illness? I read there were associations with melanoma in Gabor Mate's book about stress, but I don't consider him reliable.
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I don't know the topic well, sorry.
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