stackyFACTSWhile Western scientists scoff at horoscopes, the Bombay High Court took a different legal stance.
While Western scientists scoff at horoscopes, the Bombay High Court took a different legal stance. When a skeptic NGO tried to sue astrologers for false advertising under consumer protection laws, the judges threw the case out. They officially cited astrology as a 'trusted science' backed by thousands of years of tradition, essentially making it legally acceptable to charge people money to blame their financial ruin on Saturn.
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