Hooray for the French courts!

[I'll_buy_that]

I know that won't play too well for the right wing freedom fry lovers. :D

Aries man sues over negative horoscope (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050920/od_afp/francejusticehoroscope_050920162445)

[tsg]

Originally posted by I'll_buy_that
I know that won't play too well for the right wing freedom fry lovers. :D

Aries man sues over negative horoscope (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050920/od_afp/francejusticehoroscope_050920162445)

I don't know. I kind of wish they had let the suit continue. Then maybe the astrologers would be forced to show how they can make such a statement based on the positions of the planets....

[Mid]

I find it amusing that:

He told the court that he was a "serious father" and risked being typecast by employers as a "skirt-chaser" and therefore unreliable.

but he wasn't bothered that employers would think he was the type of idiot that takes horoscopes seriously

[eri]

A friend of mine is French; grew up in the French countryside. He comes from a tradition that accepts these types of things as fact and/or a viable alternative to science - even though both he and his parents are scientists/doctors. He uses homopathic remedies, and claims his mother (doctor) perscribes them and his father (pharmecist) said that most of modern medicine is bunk anyway. For a scientist, he's not very much of a skeptic. I think this is just part of the culture in that part of his country, so I'm not all that surprised that people there take this seriously.

[Bronze Dog]

And eri gains eligibility for an avatar...

Should probably post something on-topic, now...

From the way I read it, that guy might as well sue society for believing in voodoo or Oprahism.

[Mid]

Originally posted by BronzeDog
And eri gains eligibility for an avatar...
..snip...


don't you need 50 posts? I had to wait at least that long before going for my somewhat rubbish avatar

[Bronze Dog]

Originally posted by Mid
don't you need 50 posts? I had to wait at least that long before going for my somewhat rubbish avatar
Now that you bring it up, I'm not sure.

[luchog]

Originally posted by BronzeDog
Now that you bring it up, I'm not sure.
Yeah, it's definitely 50, unless they changed it since I got mine.

[eri]

Haven't noticed the option yet. :) I suppose I could make 22 pointless posts about the inability of scientists to apply the scientific method to things outside their own research area - I had a professor talking about sharpening his razor by leaving it inside a pyramid last week. I was very surprised, and commented that it wouldn't work. His response - did you try it?