Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science

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You know what's funny? Just last week I was at lunch with our plant manager, an engineer who went to Clemson University, and he is Indian. He said the pressure Indian families put on their children to go into prestigious "smart" jobs (such as engineer, doctor, architect, etc) is immense - as is the pressure to do well in school. You would think with such an emphasis on education, more people would be against this sort of nonsense.

I noticed some Indian and Chinese educated scientists and engineers treat science as a skill to be mastered for a career, not a philosophical approach to truth finding to be adopted. It is as if science is analogous to accounting, only the bag of tricks and the body of rules to be mastered is much greater and move involved in science than in accounting. To them, adopting the sceintific approach seems to fundamentally be a career development measure rather than an act of self-enlightenment. They may learn these tricks and know those rules exceedingly well, and is able to excel on a day-to-day basis in a scientific establishment. They may become outstanding Romans while in Rome. But They often see no conflict between what they do for their day job, where they may do highly proficient and respected scientific work, and the attitude they take outside work, which may be distinctly superstitious and irrational. I knew one Chinese educated physics professor who is well respected in her field during the day, and a devotee of what I can only describe as a moronic homeopathic meditation cult at night. When she developed treatable breast cancer she rejected modern medicine and resorted to her healing meditation. She died from her treatable but untreated cancer.