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The following article reports on a long -standing controversy about the so-called Mars effect hypothesis of the late Michael Gauquelin. The author, Professor Suitbert Ertel, cooperated with Gauquelin inevaluating certain aspects of Gauquelin’s work. The article has been several years in preparation, review,and revision. Following it we publish a brief noteby Paul Kurtz criticizing one key aspect of the analysis. Another study of the Mars-correlation claims, this 6y a French group that worked totally independently from Gauquelin, has just recently been completed. We plan to report on its conclusions when they become available.—Editor the “Mars effect” is the most provocative claim of astrological descent because it is based on immense statistical research. It was launched in 1955 by Michel Gauquelin, who until his untimely death in May 1991 expanded with formidable energy what he thought would eventually release a Kuhnian revolution.Gauquelin was born in Paris in 1928. His interest in astrology began early. At age ten he could calculate a birth chart. At school his chart readings were so amazing that his friends called him Nostradamus. But were the claims of astrology true? Unconvinced by the success of his readings, and by the opinions of astrologers, Michel Gauquelin decided to find out for himself.After graduating with a major in psychology from Sorbonne University in 1949, he began testing astrology nearly full -time, assisted in later years, until 1982, by Francoise Schneider-Gauquelin. His data and results comprise a dozen books (many translated into several languages) and about 150 scientific articles and monographs. During the first stage of this huge effort the results were negative for nearly Recent work on Gauquelin’s alleged planetary effects reveals further puzzles.
(PDF) Update on the "Mars Effect. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242150722_Update_on_the_Mars_Effect [accessed Jul 18 2026].
Posted : 18/07/2026 7:14 pm