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@thevirdas Thundershirt! Take a nice big scarf and tie it around their entire body in a crossed pattern. YouTube it: Thunder shirts wrap/ Anti anxiety wrap for dogs.
Works like a charm for my bubberson.
*heartbreak*
We need to talk more about the psychological impact of BJP's ugly anti-Muslim campaign on ordinary Muslim citizens.
Aaj dog whistling ko bhi productise hotey dekh liya!
THIS ONE. OMFG!
What movie death scene is burned into your memory?
The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.
@naggymoodles Sadly no.
I'm just amused that there will be folks who will be introduced to "aesthetics" because of some reviews and think Zoya Akhtar invented the Wes Anderson school of design.
Hueueueue. #WasteAnderson
BRAVO!
Salute to the heroes. You all make humanity and human will-power look good.
**MUST READ**
I was interviewed by @janeborges9 for @mid_day regarding science-based medicine and Ayush practices in the wake of my recent suspension from Twitter (X).
I have few points to clarify about this report and my interview.
The final report has become a "Brandolini's Law" kind of situation for me.
"The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
I was dissapointed to see that the feature included multiple Ayurveda and Homeopathy practitioners who have very conviniently, used the medium to burden the readers with more misinformation on diagnosis and treatments for various diseases.
I am not sure why there is even a debate on this - scientific medicine vs. pseudoscientific medicine.
There is no debate. It is plain and clear that scientific medicine is the closest we come to truths in healthcare and pseudoscience like Ayush is a distraction that is fuelled by weak anecdotes, appeal to tradition, culture and antiquity and embraces the business of healthcare and not art of patient care.
It is like inviting Hamas or Hezbollah or ISIS terrorists to the United Nations and asking their view points on world peace. It is absurd.
Health reporters, please do not give undeserving credit or a seat at the table, to pseudoscience peddlers, in a serious interview or healthcare report, if you really wish to inform the public on right to healthcare.
One of the Ayurveda practitioner interviewed was only looking to sell their quackery business (Gynoveda) through this interview, while another white-washes Ayurvedic pseudoscience with anecdotes and personal experiences.
The Homeopath has no idea what is being discussed. She goes on to say, "People are prescribing ridiculous dosages without following the set principles of homeopathy”
- I dont get this. Homeopathy is itself so ridiculous and ridiculous dosing means either ridiculous amount of water, sugar or alcohol. Such instances go without rebuttals in this interview. I do not even know why mainstream media must interview Homeopaths regarding anything remotely related to healthcare. They dont know anything about human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. They still believe in magic.
@mid_day has also supported chemophobia (fearmongering general public on "synthetic chemicals") through this article.
The New-York based Vaidya (not doctor), Nidhi Pandya blatantly says, "in the last 10 years alone, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible for protecting public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, has had more than 14,000 drug recalls. This means that they were initially considered ‘safe’ for use, before being recalled. Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old science, which is also time-tested. And while there may be concerns about who is using it, how it’s being administered and processed, we’ve never really seen a case, in all these years, of a particular substance that’s deemed to be absolutely unsafe to the point that it’s banned.”
Really?
Did this report even go into details of this claim on no ban on Ayurvedic supplements?
[1] European Union ban on Ayurvedic Medicines - https://t.co/fLfR6lhLj4 & https://t.co/gyj3jbssvu
[2] Banned -- Select: "a drug to alter the sex of the foetus" - https://t.co/9SLIHOJ8Rg
[3] Canada bans ayurvedic drugs - https://t.co/cFzgSbTZUX
[4] Singapore bans ayurveda products from India, UK alerts public - https://t.co/EgRpA6LMlI
[5] Why did Denmark ban Ashwagandha? - https://t.co/I7o2c8E8uN
[6] Uttarakhand bans five 'drugs' made by Patanjali - https://t.co/8hZwdN7r64
[7] ‘Ayurvedic’ pills banned after steroids found in them - https://t.co/Ol3iKtVo1i
- Drug recalls in scientific medicine, happen as part of phase IV clinical trials for safeguarding public health and patient safety. It is one of the most important aspects of scientific medicine and showcases maturity of the science-based practice, and is not a weakness. Ayurveda has no clinical trials to back up efficacy or safety and the largest upcoming cause for acute liver injury in the West is herbal drugs while the commonest cause of drug-induced liver failure in cirrhosis patients in East is herbals. None of these clarifications are provided in the report.
The Ayurveds, driven by cognitive failure keeps talking about how they diagnose conditions "holistically" through Vata, Pita, Kapha
- I mean a newspaper putting statements on obsolete humoral theories in 2023 shows how regressive this country still is, when it comes to scientific temperament.
The Homeopath is just delusional in this interview. She says, "This alternative therapy, she believes, can be used to treat everything from a common cold to cancers (of earlier stages). But ER physicians are recommended for emergencies and surgery-related cases."
- this is called cognitive dissonance 101.
Cognitive dissonance is "a mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs don't line up with your actions. It's an uncomfortable state of mind when someone has contradictory values, attitudes, or perspectives about the same thing."
Even after repeated and ongoing attempts at telling people and especially the media, not to use the term Allopathy for scientific medicine, it features full on in the title. Health reporters, please do not use this term again. In this interview I have already discussed what Allopathy is and it still featured in the headline, erroneously synonymous with science-based medicine.
I will leave it to the reader (you) "to separate the wheat from the chaff" in this very chaotic report.
Read more here: https://t.co/diTta1GExO
![theliverdoc's tweet photo. **MUST READ**
I was interviewed by @janeborges9 for @mid_day regarding science-based medicine and Ayush practices in the wake of my recent suspension from Twitter (X).
I have few points to clarify about this report and my interview.
The final report has become a "Brandolini's Law" kind of situation for me.
"The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
I was dissapointed to see that the feature included multiple Ayurveda and Homeopathy practitioners who have very conviniently, used the medium to burden the readers with more misinformation on diagnosis and treatments for various diseases.
I am not sure why there is even a debate on this - scientific medicine vs. pseudoscientific medicine.
There is no debate. It is plain and clear that scientific medicine is the closest we come to truths in healthcare and pseudoscience like Ayush is a distraction that is fuelled by weak anecdotes, appeal to tradition, culture and antiquity and embraces the business of healthcare and not art of patient care.
It is like inviting Hamas or Hezbollah or ISIS terrorists to the United Nations and asking their view points on world peace. It is absurd.
Health reporters, please do not give undeserving credit or a seat at the table, to pseudoscience peddlers, in a serious interview or healthcare report, if you really wish to inform the public on right to healthcare.
One of the Ayurveda practitioner interviewed was only looking to sell their quackery business (Gynoveda) through this interview, while another white-washes Ayurvedic pseudoscience with anecdotes and personal experiences.
The Homeopath has no idea what is being discussed. She goes on to say, "People are prescribing ridiculous dosages without following the set principles of homeopathy”
- I dont get this. Homeopathy is itself so ridiculous and ridiculous dosing means either ridiculous amount of water, sugar or alcohol. Such instances go without rebuttals in this interview. I do not even know why mainstream media must interview Homeopaths regarding anything remotely related to healthcare. They dont know anything about human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. They still believe in magic.
@mid_day has also supported chemophobia (fearmongering general public on "synthetic chemicals") through this article.
The New-York based Vaidya (not doctor), Nidhi Pandya blatantly says, "in the last 10 years alone, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible for protecting public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, has had more than 14,000 drug recalls. This means that they were initially considered ‘safe’ for use, before being recalled. Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old science, which is also time-tested. And while there may be concerns about who is using it, how it’s being administered and processed, we’ve never really seen a case, in all these years, of a particular substance that’s deemed to be absolutely unsafe to the point that it’s banned.”
Really?
Did this report even go into details of this claim on no ban on Ayurvedic supplements?
[1] European Union ban on Ayurvedic Medicines - https://t.co/fLfR6lhLj4 & https://t.co/gyj3jbssvu
[2] Banned -- Select: "a drug to alter the sex of the foetus" - https://t.co/9SLIHOJ8Rg
[3] Canada bans ayurvedic drugs - https://t.co/cFzgSbTZUX
[4] Singapore bans ayurveda products from India, UK alerts public - https://t.co/EgRpA6LMlI
[5] Why did Denmark ban Ashwagandha? - https://t.co/I7o2c8E8uN
[6] Uttarakhand bans five 'drugs' made by Patanjali - https://t.co/8hZwdN7r64
[7] ‘Ayurvedic’ pills banned after steroids found in them - https://t.co/Ol3iKtVo1i
- Drug recalls in scientific medicine, happen as part of phase IV clinical trials for safeguarding public health and patient safety. It is one of the most important aspects of scientific medicine and showcases maturity of the science-based practice, and is not a weakness. Ayurveda has no clinical trials to back up efficacy or safety and the largest upcoming cause for acute liver injury in the West is herbal drugs while the commonest cause of drug-induced liver failure in cirrhosis patients in East is herbals. None of these clarifications are provided in the report.
The Ayurveds, driven by cognitive failure keeps talking about how they diagnose conditions "holistically" through Vata, Pita, Kapha
- I mean a newspaper putting statements on obsolete humoral theories in 2023 shows how regressive this country still is, when it comes to scientific temperament.
The Homeopath is just delusional in this interview. She says, "This alternative therapy, she believes, can be used to treat everything from a common cold to cancers (of earlier stages). But ER physicians are recommended for emergencies and surgery-related cases."
- this is called cognitive dissonance 101.
Cognitive dissonance is "a mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs don't line up with your actions. It's an uncomfortable state of mind when someone has contradictory values, attitudes, or perspectives about the same thing."
Even after repeated and ongoing attempts at telling people and especially the media, not to use the term Allopathy for scientific medicine, it features full on in the title. Health reporters, please do not use this term again. In this interview I have already discussed what Allopathy is and it still featured in the headline, erroneously synonymous with science-based medicine.
I will leave it to the reader (you) "to separate the wheat from the chaff" in this very chaotic report.
Read more here: https://t.co/diTta1GExO](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9lUqk3aoAAOneY.jpg)
Just give them the damn cup for this sweetness!
@DeadlineDayLive Odegaard, Maddison, Ward Prowse
Hypocrisy
@MFuturewala If "Chaar aane ki murgi; bara aane ka masala" was an actual dish.
@markpollard Finland. Denmark.
Hypotheses: The placebo of happiness creates real happiness, maybe!?
@markpollard Damn!
I'm turning 35 in March -- clock is ticking then, eh Mark?!
@dravishakatoch Yes, this is me.
I bought my first home (a cozy little 1BHK) in BLR 4.5 yrs ago at the age of 29.
Price of investment is already 1.5x of the price I initially paid.
Other cities I considered - Goa, Pune.
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