India’s scientific community has been worried about anti-science politics for some time now, but it’s also important to recognise that statements which strike many of us as ludicrous and outright dangerous in the time of a pandemic resonate among a sizeable section of the Indian public. These sentiments and views are not totally novel.What is new is their growing social acceptability. That is, in part, linked to the kind of politics on the rise across the country. Earlier, what was not said so brazenly in public can be said now, with scant consequences.
What is happening in India is part of a global trend.
My view is that Science itself, is making anti-scientific statements. In the past few months right from the time of ICQ or Ivermectin, of hormones..as treatment for COVID, WHO has given advisories like xyz has not been proven to "cure" or abc could be problematic. Instead national level institutions have come out with "protocols" as if doctors who deviate from it are at fault. Meanwhile many doctors have prescribed these when they see certain co-symptoms like oral hygiene, or digestive disorders, or even respiratory abnormalities. The press meanwhile has been presenting black and white solutions.
It is always easy to pick the go-mutra and cow dung pictures, and condemn it, whereas people who have used ayurvedic and folk medicines as a complementary and prophylactic in many ways.
Lakhs Of People Died Due To Allopathic Medicines | Baba Ramdev Calls Allopathy ‘Stupid Science’ https://youtu.be/5NQU5URaomw?t=134
Baba Ramdev के ख़िलाफ़ दिल्ली में मामला दर्ज, Allopathy दवाओं पर कही थी यह बात| IMA on Baba Ramdev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnmpXgGSM5Y
Baba Ramdev Calls Allopathy ‘Stupid Science || Lakhs Of People Died Due To Allopathic Medicines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idXCSV2FGsI
IMA: रामदेव पर कार्रवाई नहीं हुई तो कोर्ट जाएँगे । IMA । CORONA MEDICINE । BABA RAMDEV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUz6DaAe8xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0A48_mXPA Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has asked yoga guru Ramdev, the face of one of India's biggest consumer goods and alternative medicine empires, to rescind remarks in which he ostensibly said more people died of modern medical treatments during the COVID-19 crisis than the coronavirus itself.
क्यों डॉक्टरों के ख़िलाफ़ बार-बार बोलते हैं रामदेव? । BABA RAMDEV । IMA https://youtube.com/embed/pnBkWfWSBKc?start=829&end=1058