Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
The issue of the NEET-PG qualifying cut-off dropping so low that minus 40 marks qualified reached the Supreme Court.
The Court sought the Centre's opinion.
The Centre set up a 12-member expert committee, which proposed replacing marks-based merit with a rank-based system. The National Medical Commission approved it, and the proposal is now before the Court.
This is a clever fix! The headline "Rank 2,00,000 secured MS Orthopedics in NEET-PG" sounds far less alarming to the public than "Candidate with minus 40 marks secured MS Orthopedics."
Problem solved, outrage avoided, and public trust in the medical system restored.
Tax payer funds this load of crap. BJP couldn’t find anyone with brains within their own party to become communications advisor. Dilip mandal’s ideology is a cancer, get it removed before it spreads in your entire body.
We had challenged admission at minus 40 marks in NEET-PG, in Supreme Court.
What is Govt's solution?
-Let's hide the marks -> If we don't disclose the marks, no-one will know that we give admission at minus marks -> Problem solved
This is how we will #SaveMerit in this country?
‼️𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 "𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝" 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐓-𝐏𝐆 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐥𝐝 "𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝" 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦: 𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬‼️
𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭!
In response to a petition challenging minus 40 marks in NEET-PG exams, Central Govt has proposed to move away from percentile to rank method.
𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.
Details:
1. The Union Govt’s Expert Committee has proposed replacing the NEET-PG percentile format with a rank-based system before the Supreme Court.
2. This proposal comes in response to a petition challenging a shocking NBEMS notice that aggressively slashed qualifying thresholds- dropping the General category criteria to the 7th percentile and SC/ST/OBC marks to a staggering minus 40.
3. During the hearing, Advocate Satyam Singh Rajput strongly challenged the logic of the shift. He argued that instead of explaining these near-zero and negative qualifying baselines, authorities are ironically changing the marking framework itself. Moving to a rank-only declaration offers no real difference and only obfuscates true academic merit to prioritize administrative logistics and fill empty seats.
4. Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe made no final ruling on the merits today, deferring judgment and adjourning the matter so all parties can study the report and file their formal responses.
5. Three petitions were filed challenging lowered criteria for NEET-PG admissions.
These were filed by Harisharan Deogan, Youth For Equality (YFE) & Sopchar (Rajasthan doctors).
#SaveMerit
#SaveMedicalEducation
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भास्कर की रिपोर्ट है, जरा देखिए:
राजस्थान कैडर के सीनियर आईएएस शिखर अग्रवाल, उनकी आईपीएस पत्नी प्रशाखा माथुर, दोनों बेटे और सास-ससुर ने ढाई साल के भीतर एक ही कंपनी से 40 विला-कॉटेज खरीदे हैं. भास्कर की पड़ताल में सामने आया कि अलवर के अजबगढ़ में 20 विला की मार्च 2026 और उदयपुर के बुढ़ड़ा में 20 कॉटेज की रजिस्ट्री सितंबर 2023 में हुई. इन्हें बेचने वाली कंपनी का नाम गोयल फैशन प्राइवेट लिमिटेड है. इसके देशभर में अनंता नाम से 14 रिसॉर्ट व होटल हैं. आईएएस-आईपीएस दंपती के परिवार ने कंपनी से बुढ़ड़ा और अजबगढ़ के अनंता रिसॉर्ट में ही विला-कॉटेज खरीदे. इनकी रजिस्ट्रियों के दस्तावेज भास्कर के पास मौजूद हैं.
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