Nostalgia is fun but AI-driven trends come with a hidden cost. As we recreate the 1980s, let’s also pause to ask: what’s the ecological price of our digital FOMO?
My piece with @pragyaranjan1 on the carbon footprint of AI. Read, reflect & share your view
https://t.co/fRZpjxFQIs
This is an important notice from the #Delhi Medical Council.
The truth is, this is hardly followed.
All you have to do is scan websites of hospitals to check if qualifications match the position.
Even better- just Google best endocrinologists in Delhi or best urologists or any other superspeciality and several names thrown up are not qualified.
This has been a sore point with some of us who have been fighting a losing battle in this regard. Because it turns personal and is about colleagues,
one backs off.
But it IS true that a large number of doctors who are not trained superspecialists call themselves as such.
It's happening here. In Delhi itself. Routinely.
Unless action is taken, nothing will change.
India set to be the only country in the world where citizens pay advance taxes to the Government for the privilege of `credit' card (international) transactions, to the tune of 20%
🚨Attn @RBI! A forged signature on my SBI cheque led to an unauthorised withdrawal of Rs 35,000. @TheOfficialSBI hasn't investigated despite my complaints. Demand to refund my money and take responsibility. @DelhiPolice, filed a complaint on 30th March, no action taken. #SBI#RBI
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Do you know why it is very difficult to for scientific temperament to progress in India?
Single answer: Print News Media.
A senior reporter wanted to highlight outcomes related to promotion of unscientific practices in Ayush based on my work, in early Feb 2022.
Today morning he sent me an email stating he had published the report on his "blog" because the news editor did not want to go ahead with it. The editor was from Kerala and an Ayush sympathizer & "experts" he asked advice from were probably Ayush practitioners.
Footnote of the article reads:
//"Note: The article, originally written in Feb 2022, was intended for a news publication. Editor “referred this article to some scientist friends because I thought one study may not be enough to call entire systems of medicine pseudoscience. They are still to respond.” I withdrew my submission. Editor responded: “Sorry this happened. But, the experts did not get back. And the article read more like an opinion piece based on a study by a practitioner, not on rigorous research. Hope you understand.”
"Now I have decided to self-publish this polemic in recognition of the impact of Dr. Cyriac‘s relentless pursuit of quality medical science. I can proudly say the piece was so timely and prescient. But it is the Indian news media, incompetence galore."//
If the Editor or the experts did not realize, there was not one study, but many. I am the only "practitioner" who does research on Ayush-liver injuries for public health because the others dont want to do it, even if they can.
Scientific temperament in the community will not progress unless the mainstream news media in India stops whoring with alternative medicine industry.
You can read the full report here:
"𝐀𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞."
𝘼 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨.
- by Ujjawal Krishnam.
https://t.co/2TaptJQxFZ