Had to visit the office of the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DYSP) today because the Ayurveda Medicine Manufacturer's Association made an official complaint to the State Chief Minister's Office which was then sent out as a priority notice to police officers downstream for further investigation.
The complaint about me was on the following reasons:
1. I am continuously defaming and denigrating Ayurvedic practice by educating the public on dangers of herbal medicines which could have toxic plants, contamination and adulteration.
2. I feature on various YouTube science channels to degrade Ayurvedic practice by educating the public on dangers of herbal medicines which could have toxic plants, contamination and adulteration.
3. I am very vocal about pseudoscientific and unscientific claims promoted by the alternative medicine industry and this is affecting Ayurvedic industry and practitioners.
4. I spoke on social media about the time an Ayurvedic Drugs Controller visited my clinical department asking for herbal drugs analysis (when in fact they should have already known about such analysis as part of their duty towards regulation, quality control and manufacturing).
5. The complaint was also specifically on one video which featured me and other rationalists, where I spoke about the time when large right-wing accounts on Twitter gave me death threats online (Ayurveda practitioners were hurt because I spoke the truth): https://t.co/9mqgEIBpUt
The police officers were very polite, curious and interested in everything I had to say. They wrote down my statements and the fact that everything that I had spoken on YouTube and on social media about alternative medicine industry including Ayurveda were backed by scientific evidence and peer-reviewed publications. The officers told me that this was a "civil case" and was not actionable by the police (non-cognizable offense) and that they will not be taking further action on this and will submit their report on it soon. They wanted to record my statements and facts as a response to the [lame] complaint.
The Ayurveda practitioners and the industry does not know how to deal with science and logic and scientific practitioners. Abusing the law and legal to silence & harass science communicators does not make Ayurveda any scientific. It is and always will remain a pseudoscience.
The least they can do is stop promoting magical claims and keep their house in order by following good manufacturing practices by avoiding known contamination, adulteration and organ-toxic herbal components from their shitty products.
A small downside of the whole ordeal was that I was quite late to start the OPD and my patients were slightly frustrated, but in the end, everything played out well. Thank you for all your warm wishes!
I appreciate it 🙏
A biker died on the spot at Kapurbawdi near Vijay Sales, due to poor road conditions. @TMCaTweetAway you are responsible for such accidents. #thane#mumbai
@awscloud@DigiYatraOffice EXTRA! EXTRA!
Read the now deleted "Partner Success" story on the Way Back Machine that goes over in great detail the partnership between @DigiYatraOffice and AP eChallan scam accused run company Dataevolve Solutions OPC Pvt Ltd.
https://t.co/mSUJpCP0b0
DigiYatra forces users to move to a new app without notice, leaves users unhappy
More agony for users of #ShittyYatra
But sure, totally trustworthy despite their incompetence.
https://t.co/otkkXFNKbb
@SpokespersonECI The Form 6B provided 2 options [1] Aadhaar number [2] declare that you don't have Aadhaar number.
If people don't want to share #Aadhaar they have to opt for 2nd option which leads proving the wrong info.
So claim about voluntary Aadhaar submission is wrong. (1/2)
Yet another #DigitalIndia#FAIL
The idiots at @DigiYatraOffice didn't realise their package name didn't match their org/domain.
in.dataevolve.digiyatra /
https://t.co/plD9fjuE00
ie. "Official" DigiYatra app was no different from malicious apps pretending to be them.
@awscloud@DigiYatraOffice@MoCA_GoI@JM_Scindia@AAI_Official This is such a brazen scam.
Wonder how @Razorpay didn't notice there was a company registered with ROC that was almost infringing on their trademark.
And it took ~5 years for the AP govt/police to realise that RAZORPE is not RAZORPAY!
@DigiYatraOffice And this gets even better...
What is this "Dataevolve" company that built and likely was controlling the "official" @DigiYatraOffice app all these years?
It's an OPC Pvt Ltd aka "One Person Company" not very different from a Sole Proprietorship concern.
Zomato’s original tweet that Deepi has quoted below has been deleted by Zomato’s original handle (because of course when you are bending why not bend properly)
Will be curious to see if any media org will have the balls to pick these two tweets and contrast them.
Thank you, @moneycontrolcom, for amplifying my issue regarding the recent market fluctuations. Your support has been invaluable in bringing attention to this important matter.
https://t.co/sYBz0LGpt2
@SheriefFYI Go back to windows xp and era appropriate software and tell me why every single thing got slower except for raw compute power. Why does modern Word need a splash screen while it loads? It's a goddamn paper simulator. How is it worse than ever?
Can we appreciate for a minute that at some point great people came together and created top tier free software that in the past would cost you thousands of dollars?
This is totally scary. This is accumulation of savings for a lifetime and the middle class relies on this. But to see that rejection of claims is being made by system due to discrepancy between PF and Aadhar is just barbaric! God help us all! https://t.co/rbhKpY4ekG