Rajat Garg

Investigator
Senior Researcher @unirostock 🇩🇪
Former Research Associate @UWMadison 🇺🇸
alumnus @IiserMohali 🇮🇳

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

@RoflGandhi_ Arey Rofl bhai. Unko itna acha likhna nahi aata. Meet ko to meat likhte the. Itna padhe likhe hote to ye sab nahi hota.

[زماں @Delhiite_]

Hostel Daze fame actor Nikhil Vijay joined the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar.

Listen to what he has to say.

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

Arrogance at its peak. When those in power post a video with such an insensitive tone, it tells you their mindset. !!!

[BJP @BJP4India]

कान खोलकर सुन लो... ⬇️

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

शांतिपूर्ण विरोध एक अटूट और मौलिक अधिकार है।

भारत के निर्दोष छात्रों पर हमला करने के आदेशों का आँखें बंद करके पालन करने वाले हर पुलिस अधिकारी और सरकारी कर्मचारी ये बात ध्यान रखें:

संविधान ही आपका मालिक है।
सत्ता हमेशा के लिए नहीं रहती।
जवाबदेही ज़रूर तय की जाएगी।

Peaceful protest is a sacred and fundamental right.

Every police officer and govt official blindly following orders to attack India’s innocent students should keep in mind:

The Constitution is your master.
Power is not permanent.
Accountability will follow.

[Dhruv Rathee Satire @DhruvRatheNx]

Gujarat से आया पिता, बेटे को 1 महीने पहले खोया…Sonam Wangchuk को उठाने पर क्या बोले?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

प्रधानमंत्री मोदी भारत के इतिहास के सबसे युवा-विरोधी प्रधानमंत्री हैं - इतने युवा विरोधी कि एक नाकाम शिक्षा मंत्री धर्मेंद्र प्रधान का इस्तीफा भी नहीं ले सकते।

152 पेपर लीक। 7.5 करोड़ छात्र पीड़ित। और सज़ा एक दोषी को भी नहीं। सजा किसे मिली? मेहनती युवाओं को।

और जब इन बच्चों ने शिक्षा के जायज़ सवाल उठाए - तो जवाब में मिली लाठी और हिरासत। लीक करने वाले अपराधी आज़ाद - और वाजिब मुद्दे उठाने वाले छात्र घसीटे जाते हैं, पीटे जाते हैं।

यह सरकार सिर्फ़ युवाओं को नाकाम नहीं कर रही - उनपर टूट पड़ी है।

[Abhinav Pandey @Abhinav_Pan]

मुख्यमंत्री Fadnavis जी!
जिसको कुत्ता नहीं पूछता उसी जनता का पैर पकड़ कर आप लोग वोट माँगते हैं। सरकार की आलोचना कब से राज्य की आलोचना हो गया? सवालों का जवाब नहीं है तो Shoot the messenger!

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

@pravesh @Kaju_Nut Well, BS/MS programs are entry points in science for people, and they are at the lowest end of the chain. I sometimes geniunely wonder, why we start stopping leakage at the very bottom, and not start from the top, wherein salaries are disbursed in lakhs-Crs scale.

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

@ravish_journo @RahulGandhi @EduMinOfIndia @newslaundry @nlhindi @narendramodi

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

This is concerning. Whatever limited support govt was providing to students pursuing fundamental science is being withdrawn. I myself am a beneficiary of INSPIRE SHE scheme, and know many people from our batch including myself who may not have been able to continue in science

[Gatikrushna Mishra @Gatikrushna03]

Concerning🧵 #DST #InspireSHE #IISER

After stopping KVPY, @IndiaDST has silently discontinued INSPIRE-SHE scholarship for BS and MS students. This is a nightmare for fundamental science in India. Students were uncertain about this until a certain student from IISc filed RTI. 1/n

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

To put things further in perspective, we could cover our entire year’s expense (including fees, food and stay). The govt. hasn’t increased the fellowship amt. since 2010, and now abolishing it is not the way, if we want to promote science and research in our country.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Good morning. This is urgent, for public information.

The second 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 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology last year. The authors are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BHU-Varanasi and Birla Institute of Technology (BITS)-Pilani.
This is the paper: https://t.co/InN4H9safh

This study was done in Uttar Pradesh and the total amount of public money given was INR 31,04,162. The authors studied cow urine of different breeds and found "special" components in the cow urine that they claim will have major use applications in healthcare, technology and engineering.

They are wrong. The paper is a third-rate publication with poorly performed and grossly misinterpreted and falsified results of basic analytical chemistry. An official email for Expression of Concern and investigation into scientific integrity has been mailed to: @SpringerNature Ethics Team and Journal Editors-in-Chief (personal email) - Matthew P. DeLisa PhD
at Cornell University, Ye Ni PhD at Jiangnan University and Benedict Okeke PhD at Auburn University.

Here is the lay summary of the paper's forensic analysis:

Lab contamination has been (un)intentionally ignored by authors. The researchers mistook common lab contaminants, like plastic chemicals and solvents, for natural cow urine compounds. They failed to run basic control tests to catch these obvious errors.

Impossible chemicals claimed to be found in cow urine by authors. The paper claims to have found impossible synthetic chemicals in the urine, such as a banned pesticide, human prescription drugs, and toxic metals. This shows the authors blindly trusted computer software without checking if the results even made biological sense.

Fake health claims made by the authors. The authors boast about the amazing health benefits of over twenty different chemicals, claiming they fight cancer and bacteria. However, none of these specific chemicals were actually found anywhere in their own data or in the urine of various cows they tested.

Contradictory results are all over the place. The written text of the paper directly contradicts its own data tables. The researchers claim to have found certain groups of chemicals, like steroids, that are completely missing from their actual results.

Terrible referencing throughout the paper. The study's citations are completely mismatched, scrambled, and duplicated. They even cite unrelated plant studies and reviews on toxic chemicals to support their claims about the "benefits" of cow urine.

Zero statistics and flawed setup degrade the conclusions. The study lacks basic statistical analysis, sometimes testing as few as one cow per breed. They also failed to separate the cow's breed from its age, diet, or location, making their "breed-specific" conclusions totally invalid.

Misleading graphs are plastered all over. The graphs that are supposed to show specific, individual chemicals actually show messy mixtures of dozens of different compounds. These graphs look suspiciously identical to each other, raising serious concerns about image manipulation.

Thanks to the Government for destroying the scientific fabric and the rational temperament of its science instituitions. We wont forget.

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

Such a beautiful and well articulated response. ❤️

[Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिंह @umashankarsingh]

सवाल : प्रेसिडेंट ट्रंप ने PM मोदी की तारीफ़ एक मज़बूत नेगोशिएटर के तौर पर की। क्या इसका मतलब है कि भारत पिछले 12 साल में आखिरकार दुनिया के मंच पर आ गया है?

विदेश सचिव विक्रम मिसरी का जवाब : “जब मैंने पिछली बार चेक किया था, तब भारत पिछले 7000 सालों से दुनिया के मंच पर उपस्थित है। कोई एक ख़ास मुलाकात इस उपस्थिति को लेकर क्या कर सकती है क्या नहीं मैं इसके बारे में कुछ नहीं कह सकता लेकिन मैं आपको आश्वस्त कर सकता हूँ कि दुनिया के मंच पर हमारी मौजूदगी बहुत बहुत लंबे समय से है”

शानदार प्रोफेशनल डिप्लोमैटिक संदेश 🙌

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

लोहे के पेड़ हरे होंगे

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

“हम तो तबाह हो गए हैं - और सुनने वाला कोई नहीं।”

कल दोपहर के खाने पर एक ऑटो चालक भाई ने यह कहा। एक वाक्य में देश के लाखों ग़रीबों की पूरी कहानी आ गई।

आमदनी का मीटर बंद। महंगाई का ब्रेक फेल। और सुनने वाली सरकार बहरी।

CNG से LPG तक। बच्चों की पढ़ाई से इलाज तक। दूध से लेकर खाने के तेल तक। हर बढ़ता रुपया इनके बजट पर, इनकी रसोई पर, सीधा वार है।

महंगाई मानव मोदी जी सलाह देते हैं - “public transport इस्तेमाल कीजिए।” और जो लोग public transport की रीढ़ हैं वो आज महंगाई के बोझ तले टूट रहे हैं।

आज इनकी थाली में रोटी-दाल के साथ एक सवाल भी है - कल की रोटी कहाँ से आएगी?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Dharmendra Pradhan ji, you can attack me all you want but it won’t absolve you of your crimes. Nor will it stop me from demanding answers for 18.5 lakh children.

Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?

Either you ran a background check and went ahead anyway - or you didn’t run one at all. Either way, you are complicit.

As for responsibility - if the PM cared, he should have sacked you long ago for ruining the futures of lakhs of students.

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

@AshokShrivasta6 @vineetJindal19 you are sick man. Get well soon.

[Rajat Garg @rgpg05]

@dranuj_k This obsession with a failed nation like Pakistan is beyond me. We have many better countries to look up to. The fact that Pakistan is at 153 is insignificant in the larger context, given India is the largest democracy in the world. I would expect us to be in top 50.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

After press statements in Oslo, Norwegian press object to the PMs not taking questions as they normally do. Norway PM Store returns to do interviews with Norwegian media.