India's Supreme Court actually ruled in 2004 that astrology is a legitimate science and can be officially taught in universities, legally placing horoscopes on the same academic level as physics and biology.

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India's Supreme Court actually ruled in 2004 that astrology is a legitimate science and can be officially taught in universities, legally placing horoscopes on the same academic level as physics and biology. This monumental legal decision allowed astrologers to operate with institutional backing, turning predictive stargazing into a multi-million dollar industry protected by the state. It is incredibly funny to think that in an era of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, a major global superpower officially decreed that calculating the influence of Mars on a Tuesday is a rigorously academic pursuit. Imagine submitting your doctoral thesis and defending it by arguing that your data on retrograde planets proves why certain people should never wear the color yellow during a job interview