Sandip Lahiri

Aspiring to live life by my Principles. All opinions are mine.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

This is a must read piece.

In Germany, public health funds can no longer be used to finance Homeopathy.

Patients remain free to seek them, but will generally have to pay from their pockets.

As Prof. @EdzardErnst rightly mentions: a patient may purchase homeopathic products or consult a homeopathic practitioner, just as one may spend money on many other personally valued but useless services.
https://t.co/xQooxzhpoK

Homeopathy is being rejected from its country of origin. In India, the Government is teaching it to younger generations as a career option, a bachelors degree across 5.5 years of training in public funded colleges. And India's Homeopathy Council's are gagging science communicators and public from calling it quackery and it's practitioners quacks.

What a time to live in this country. Fake paneer. Fake milk. Fake ghee. Fake honey. Detergent instead of salt in public school meals. And fake degrees.

[Krishna Hegde @PositiveGamma]

Whenever an Indian in their 30s/40s is excessively positive about India's future, it is usually the case

a. Their kid/s study in an international school.
b. They have taken more vacations overseas than in India over last few years.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

MAHA is to health policy what astrology is to science

[Make Gold Great @MakeGoldGreat]

THANK GOD.

THE UNITED STATES HAS FOUND A NEW BUYER FOR US TREASURIES.

THE UNITED STATES.

[Michael Clemens @m_clem]

The new H-1B tax gets announced tomorrow.

The original $100K tax was ruled illegal. The White House made its successor: a $103K tax on *all* private sector H-1Bs.

Much more drastic than the original: NO EXCEPTION for people already in the US (like grads of US universities) —>

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

So in simple words:-

- Employees at HDFC Bank's Dubai (DIFC) and Bahrain
branches allegedly persuaded NRI customers to move their FCNR (Foreign Currency Non-Resident) deposits.

- They moved these deposits into Credit Suisse Additional Tier-1 (AT1) bonds.

These are higher risk assets and can be written down to zero in a crisis. This actually happened in 2023, when Credit Suisse collapsed in 2023, and AT1 money got wiped out.

- As NRIs you have 100s of better options to build/grow your wealth. Just go to more honest systems.

This video will help: https://t.co/pN9xODrOkM

[taobanker @taobanker]

Holy fuck. I just saw that physical therapy is billing my insurance $500 PER HOUR. Then my deductible payment is still $150 after insurance. My doctor recommended a cash pay that's $45. This shit is literally the biggest fucking scam on the planet.

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

*BESSENT THREATENS TO GIVE IRAN FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO JIM CRAMER INVESTING CLUB AS ECONOMIC WAR ESCALATES - NY POST.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Detox.
Flush out toxins.
Cleanse.
Support (insert organ) health...
are all vague science sounding terms that the wellness industry use trying to hook you into buying their products. Be a smart consumer. Because they consider the average consumer stewpid. Don't be.

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

FCNR is not Indian government's money.
It is a "deposit" done by NRIs

And, at some point this money will go back (with a massive interest!). That too in US$.

What do you think happens to INR then?

Do you even see anyone talking about this?

[Vinodsrinivasan @vinodsrinivasan]

Same shape every time. Relationship manager, yield product, NRI client, then “our role was purely facilitative.”

One incident is bad luck. Three with the same shape is a design. Incentives produce outcomes. RMs have targets. Suitability does not.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

Every influencer in India is optimizing their messaging for maximum engagement. The result? Sensationalism wins over substance. We’re optimizing for clicks, outrage and virality—not ideas, truth or meaningful conversation.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

In the Mahabharata, we’re now told that arrows were actually ICBMs. Fascinating. But how does rewriting mythology as modern technology create jobs, raise incomes, or put food on the table? India’s future will be built by solving today’s problems—not inventing technology in the past.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

What is happening in this country?
A young MBBS doctor Dr. Lakshman Ganga has been threatened with legal action by an Ayurveda practitioner because he exposed an Ayurvedic Hospital and it's Ayurvedic "Neonatologist" for prescribing at least 5 antibiotics including a kidney toxic one and kidney toxic pain killers along with random ass herbal junk, for a viral infection in a 5 year old, for which the child was also subjected to an incision and drainage surgery procedure!

This hospital and the pediatric Ayurveda specialist should be booked for endangering a child's life and attempt to murder and medical negligence. These kind of practitioners enjoy freedom to play with others lives while real doctors on duty are met with violence trying to do right by patients. Indian healthcare hierarchy is so messed up, it looks unsalvageable.

The government wants alternative medicine practitioners in Ayurveda and Homeopathy to prescribe modern medicine under integrative medicine rule. Some States have not allowed it.

Empowering these alternative medicine frauds without the right medical science knowledge is a huge threat to public health and patient endangering.

You cant expect a monkey sit inside a den of lions and hear them roar for 6 months and ask them to play the role of the king of the jungle and roar.
https://t.co/kZHFUo45z7

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 in a fraudulent paper.

It's was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross medical malpractice

And here we are 28 years later RFK Jr is dredging it up and using it to inform vaccine policy

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Risk of blood clot after Covid vaccine : 2 per million

Risk of blood clot after Covid infection : 1700 per million

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Bengaluru’s 5-star hotels and resorts, including Four Seasons and Shangri-La, were found with expired milk, rotten meat, and fungus-covered vegetables. 🙏

- At The Lalit Ashok (Annex South), officials seized and destroyed 76 kg of meat, 200 kg of vegetables, and 32 liters of expired milk.

- At Shangri-La, 15 kg of meat were seized.

- At Four Seasons Hotel, officials confiscated 19 kg of meat.

- At Vivanta Bengaluru Whitefield, three kg of expired bakery products were destroyed.

- At Taj Yeshwantpur, officials seized 72 kg of meat and fish.

- At Radisson Blu (The Atria), authorities seized and destroyed 105 kg of expired food articles.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

THESE DISEASES ARE FAKE!!!:

Vaccine induced Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (VAIDS)

Turbo Cancer

Vaccine Induced Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS)

Vaccine Induced Autism

ALL MADE UP!!!

[Ben Zhang @un1c0rnioz]

Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.

Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.

I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.

Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.

Code: https://t.co/fmnISzHfZ2

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us