Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science

neosaurus writes "In India, the Bombay High Court recently ruled astrology to be 'a time tested science more than 4000 years old.' Not only does this stretch the definition of science, it also reaffirms people's faith in pseudosciences at a broader level." At least we can know for certain the people trying to get creationism taught as science in our schools have equally wacky friends around the globe.

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Geez

[jschmitz]

It's nice to know their are nutjobs in other places besides just the southern US

Re:Geez

[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny how when us southerner "nutjobs" say something about what we believe, so many of you come back with "They are so intolerant", yet it is ok for YOU to lump all southerners in together as nutjobs.

Hypocricy knows no bounds...

Re:Necessary?

[FourthAge]

What happened to the /. that was fairly neutral, objective and unbiased?

I'm not sure that Slashdot has ever been neutral about certain topics. But the inconsistency can be annoying. If the Bombay High Court had ruled that Climatology was "a time-tested science", I doubt we'd hear any sarcastic remarks at all. And there are certainly a few similarities between Astrology and Climatology, as in:

I'll just look into my computer simulation to see the future of the Earth for the next century! There's no way that the simulation could possibly be inaccurate, because I have asked another Climatologer to peer-review it.

Hmm... oh dear. It looks like civilisation will certainly be destroyed by a great flood from the polar ice caps within twenty years. I guess you need to renew my research grants so I can figure out how you should prevent it.

You did that? Thanks. Let's see now... I think you should raise taxes and hire more Climatologers. Then you'll be safe. Oh, by the way, turns out I was wrong. Actually, civilisation will be destroyed by a new ice age. I have to do some more research, so how about some more money?