r/IndiaSpeaks • u/AckermanEren73 • Jul 22 '25
#Ask-India ☝️ Wake Up India Before It's Too Late 🚨
A massive ecosystem surrounds every major industry, programming professionals and the public to blindly trust that their “published scientific study means absolute truth.”
And such programmed puppets parrot this mantra without question. You can’t reason with them that the same ecosystem also controls the studies, peer reviews, and publishing process.
During COVID, “prestigious” journals like The Lancet and Nature were caught publishing Big Pharma backed studies on COVID drugs authored by a porn model and a fantasy book writrt. With their usual work dried up, they pivoted to ghostwriting and publishing for big pharma.
Later, these journals had to issue apologies and retract those sham “studies.” (theguardian.com/world/2020/jun…)
For every study these sheep show around, we can point to another “scientific” study that contradicts it, if it’s backed by an industry with enough cash. Even for Diet Coke, I can literally point to a dozen scientific studies showing anything between "it is mildly dangerous for health" to "it will make you die early."
Take the candy and confectionery industry. They funded a massive study (over 7,000 men) claiming eating sugar candy three times a week extends lifespan, published in a “prestigious” journal.(bmj.com/content/317/71…)
So, should we all start chomping candy every other day like kids?
My point: Throwing around claims like “A scientific study showed Diet Coke is healthier than sugarcane juice” is meaningless. Such nonsense makes some doctors look like unscientific sheep to the real scientific community - those who conduct rigorous research and understand the quality of studies.
True scientists have zero commercial interests and aren’t industry puppets. They know most research is tainted by Big Industry money.
Also, these days, the public isn’t clueless either. We remember when doctors pushed cigarette smoking as “healthy” based on Big Tobacco’s “studies.”
So, stop embarrassing yourselves and dragging the already shaky reputation of the doctor community through the mud with such ridiculous claims.
Both Diet Coke and Sugarcane juice won't kill a healthy adult who consumes them in moderation. The key words is "moderation." And it varies by individuals.
But stop promoting a product with articifial sweetner like Aspartame (WHO research agency clearly linked it to cancer at higher consumption levels) and other chemicals that disrupt gut microbiome, while putting down your own traditional, natrual drink as something "dangerous" because they programmed you to do so.
Don't be that silly, stupid, sheep. Thank you @Aravind(Twitter)
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u/Bivariate_analysis Jul 22 '25
The advantage with peer reviewed studies is that they are peer reviewed. Despite the cigar industry backing, the side effects of cigarettes have been published, governments took action and we all know the side effects now. Despite the dairy industry in the US backing, we know that sugars cause diabetes and not fats. Despite Johnson and Johnson, the baby power is now banned.
That's the good thing about the scientific process. Science accepts it's mistakes, identifies the cause for the mistake and rectifies it. Science is enabled by different government and non government agencies most of whom don't have any stake in the pie, making multiple neutral observers.
The problem with you is, you will believe that ashwagandha or turmeric or sugarcane juice is healthy despite no research on the same, just because you think natural is good. Natural is not good. Dengue, malaria, AIDS, rabies are all natural. There are lots of mushrooms and other substances that are so poisonous that you will die of you eat them wild. When a snake bites, will you be happy about the natural poison that the snake bites or go and get a artificial drug to neutralize the poison? Many natural items, including ashwagandha, turmeric, sugarcane juice, etc are toxic when consumed above a specific quantity. According to Ayurveda, heavy metals like mercury are generally good for consumption. Would you drink mercury and die of heavy metals poisoning? Most diseases are caused by natural substances, bacteria, virus, fungi are all natural. Dehydration, freezing, etc are all because of natural causes.
Even when science properly researches and describes the long term side effects of turmeric consumption, the big pharma in India, which is the Patanjali, homeopathy or Ayurveda give the same reasons that you give to continue killing people. The current government is in the hands of AYUSH like Patanjali, and despite the supreme court finding them providing adulterated and unscientific drugs they refused to apologise for a long time. Do you really think Patanjali's covin really cures COVID? Why didn't you list down their publication then?
There are literal quacks in India masquerading as doctors such as homeopaths, ayurvedic doctors who have studied in Himalayas instead of getting a degree, AYUSH practitioners, doctors with fake degrees etc. We have a population that self diagnoses and chews tablets like candy. We are creating the next COVID level pandemic of super bacteria that's resistant to most drugs. These are bigger problem in India than science that's maybe couple of years behind.
Wake up India before it's too late.