Virendra Bhad

MBBS MD MEDICINE DM Gastroenterology(SR)

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

"It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness."

https://t.co/a6UFByRqLM

I am the first Asian, the first Indian to receive this prestigious award given to science communicators who fight misinformation and pseudoscience.

"Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, a doctor and expert on the harms caused by alternative medicine in India, has today been named the 2025 recipient of the Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism by The Skeptic magazine.

Dr Philips, a clinician-scientist in Hepatology at Rajagiri Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, has spent over a decade highlighting the dangers of homeopathy, herbal remedies, and superstition in India, sharing his expertise with more than 430,000 followers across X, Instagram and YouTube.

His work in countering health misinformation has been featured across the national and international media – resulting in campaigns of harassment and litigation by supporters of India’s powerful herbal and homeopathic industries."

To everyone who supported me, who stood by me, who raised my voice...my big thanks and appreciation. Science communication cannot progress without science loving rationalists like you all.

Thank you to the @TheSkepticMag and the @merseyskeptics, to the editor in chief @MrMMarsh and the @QEDcon awards and scientific committee of the Okhams for choosing me, giving me stage and helping me raise my voice on the unstoppable work I do against the unrelentless pseudoscientific drivel that people of my country are been subjected to... with regulatory support.

Only the medical community can fight back for the public and patients... and this prestigious award and recognition gives the few medical science communicators in India, like me, more fuel to burn ourselves for the better. This is an award for all rationalists and scientific communicators in India and I'm proud to make this ours, not mine alone. Jai Hind.

PS: deeply grateful for the few minutes of thunderous standing ovation at the end of my presentation from the massive crowd who gathered on a rainy day in Manchester to fill the main stage event. It was unlike anything I had experienced. I'll never forget it.🙏

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@imghelpinghand Gastroenterology

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@imghelpinghand India

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@Gastronaut___ @balajibellam23 @DrAkhilX @BadalGondane @DrShivu_tweets Source of information sir ?

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@SahajRathi @HepatologyPGI @VCU_Liver @JasmohanBajaj @DBouhaidar75901 @RichSterlingMD @kumaranvinay @ObiAseemMDPhD @juanpabloarab @ajay_duseja @drsuniltaneja @drnipunverma Congratulations sir 😃

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@MPGN46 @orlandohealth BEWA conference was huge success sir !
Hope to attend more of your conferences in near future

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@anandmahindra Flexing like Elon 🔥

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@AIGHospitals Should resident be attending this conference?

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@AdvaniRashmiMD @DrBloodandGuts @drkeithsiau @stevenbollipo @BilalMohammadMD @DCharabaty @DennisYangMD @JosephHabibi_MD @doctornikkid @DVinsard @shifaumarMD Crohns disease,TB, NSAIDS Biopsy will help

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@morellifit 30

[Dr. Rupa Banerjee @DrRupaBanerjee1]

Honoured and deeply humbled .... Grateful for the opportunity to highlight the rising IBD in this part of the world !! A big thanks to the organizing committee @IBD_FloMD @SaraElOualiMD @CleClinicMD @MRegueiroMD

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@GIDrDon I’m interested but I’m from India 😅

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@idrlakshmi In India everyone is more confident giving medical opinions than doctor himself !

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@theliverdoc Good afternoon sir ,What are the options post DM abroad ?

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@Rohit456393 @pachaatt Deep condolences! Malpractice and fake doctors should be behind bars forever and administrations who have recruited them in the first place !

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@imghelpinghand [email protected]

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@EndoCollabcom WhatsApp

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@drsnehaplastic @SJHDELHI @_JJ_stent @medanta @MoHFW_INDIA Congratulations 🥳

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@EndoCollabcom Plz send it

[Virendra Bhad @2e3535edd57e463]

@EndoCollabcom Send plz