@PlayStation What a braindead decision. Do not stop producing physical disks. No one asked for it, no one wants it. Just look at the no of comments in an age where people just like and move on. Spectacular bad decision.
Important for public information!
I would like to update that the third paper on cow research, funded using India's public money under the SUTRA-PIC (Scientific Utilization through Research Augmentation - Prime Products from Indigenous Cows program) has undergone exhaustive post-publication peer review.
The paper was published in Biochemical Engineering Journal this year. The authors are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad (Jharkhand).
This is the paper:
https://t.co/9niHoCSvEO This study was done in Jharkhand and the total amount of public money given was INR 36,16,859/- (~38500 USD).
As per the study, the researchers transformed ordinary cow dung into a specialized carbon material that highly effectively soaks up toxic chromium pollution from water. Instead of throwing away this metal-filled waste, they successfully reused it to build a working, long-lasting energy storage device called a supercapacitor.
Well, they did not. They made it all up.
Here is a plain-language summary of the fatal flaws found in the paper:
🟡The authors claim their material successfully absorbed a massive amount of toxic chromium—roughly 22% of its total weight. However, their own chemical scan shows the final product contains almost zero chromium (0.09%), making their main conclusion physically impossible.
🟡After testing this material in a battery setup that contains absolutely zero chromium, the reported amount of chromium inside the material mysteriously multiplied by 47 times (from 0.09% to 4.24%). Elements cannot spontaneously generate out of thin air, which strongly indicates the data was fabricated.
🟡The fundamental thermodynamic math used to prove how the material captures pollutants is entirely broken. The reported numbers for energy, heat, and entropy literally do not equal each other when plugged into standard physics equations, heavily suggesting the results were manually made up.
🟡The paper claims hard statistical proof that one type of cow dung is superior to another, but the actual difference between them is a fraction of a percent and mathematically insignificant. Furthermore, the statistical "p-values" they reported are mathematically incorrect for the tests they claim to have run.
And one more point which requires professional image manipulation software for checking - which me or the helping team did not have access to)...
🟡The photos intended to show the physical "coated" battery electrodes appear to be digitally faked. The frayed edges and tape cuts match the uncoated metal so perfectly that it looks like solid black boxes were simply photoshopped over the original image (this is only a basic allegation, needs confirmation).
With this review, I am stopping further such analysis on these so-called cow-research science papers glorifying Indian tradition. These "researchers" and "scientists" should be ashamed of themselves. Real science requires truthful validation, not beggarly applause or promotions from the hands of the "agenda-driven" masters that feed you.
All three papers criticisms have been uploaded to Pub-Peer and official notifications sent to the respective journals and their research integrity teams. Two papers are already under investigation by respective journal.
Please see here: https://t.co/C5cHlJZUas and here: https://t.co/bhNYt0khLv
The science community in India must fight tooth and nail to prevent AYUSH pseudoscience infiltration into their revered STEM institutions. This is not a good thing, moving forward.
@abhijeet_dipke@kaushikrj6 By the way, this is the first time he has addressed media. After so many days, the audacity that they feel like they are not accountable for anything is really something.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. I NEED YOUR HELP.
Dear friends with access to research paper databases. I have a favor to ask of you.
The Government of India has used public funds (tax payers money) from the Department of Science, Biotechnology and Ayush Ministry for running the SUTRA-PIC (Scientific Utilization Through Research Augmentation-Prime Products from Indigenous Cows) program which claims focus on the scientific validation and commercialization of indigenous cow breeds and their byproducts (like milk, urine, and dung). They have claimed to have published scientific evidence from this cow program as per this article: https://t.co/NeWaVz3U4D
We know that one such paper from IIT-Roorke under the SUTRA-PIC program that was recently in the limelight had serious concerns of scientific integrity and fraud and a post publication review has been officially asked for: https://t.co/C5cHlJZUas
This is where I need your help. If you have the access, please source the full published papers that were part of the SUTRA-PIC program and kindly send me the full paper + supplementary documents to my email address - theliverdr(at)gmail(dot)com
My team would like to do an extensive and exhaustive post publication peer review on these papers to understand if there are consequences of public fund wastage on such programs. We need to stop "positive outcomes" fraud pseudoscience papers from infiltrating good scientific sources.
Thanks in advance!
@badasskachii Haha, just saw your a ManU fan. Appreciate it nonetheless. But yeah, Haaland had such a blockbuster first season that he needs to win the WC to overtake that.
🇲🇽 An ESPN reporter was live previewing Mexico’s match when a group of fans suddenly picked him up and launched him into the air. 😭😂
The best part? He kept commentating like nothing had happened. Absolute scenes. 😅🇲🇽