In India, the Bombay High Court has just ruled that astrology is ‘a time tested science more than 4000 years old‘, which follows a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that astrology can be taught in university as a real ‘science’.

Ohferpitysakeswhataloadofbollocks

James Randi devised an experiment to test the basis of astrology. He gathered information from a room full of people, prepared a reading for each one, and had them read it (in the same room, but silently). Invariably they claimed that it was 85-95% accurate; far beyond what they would believe is pure chance. Then he had them pass their readings to the next person in line. Very soon they realized that the entire room was given the same paper.

As Heinlein liked to say, man is not a rational animal, rather a rationalising one.