Shankar @sshankus

People are getting it wrong. They're trying to teach the ghouls empathy. The only way to deal with a ghoul or a group of ghouls, is exorcism when the right time arrives. You have the power. You have the choice. Never the ghouls.

Well, in many ways we brought it all on ourselves and we deserve worse. Grave unpardonable mistake made and repeated twice over. And actually what hurts much more is that honestly, I doubt whether we have learnt anything at all?

I'm on page with you on this dear @Ram_Guha

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has put off commenting on their post on their publication of cow urine research. Why? How can a central institute that is run on public funds stop public from commenting on their post? If anyone has the full paper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… please send me for a through post publication peer review to abbyphilips(at)theliverinst(dot)in Thanks in advance!

IIT Roorkee @iitroorkee

2 months ago

IIT Roorkee researchers have identified key bioactive compounds in Ayurvedic Cow Urine Distillate (Gau Mutra Ark), demonstrating significant antiviral activity against the Chikungunya virus. Led by Prof. Shailly Tomar and her team from the Department of Biosciences and

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For the kind attention of the public please! All through the night, I performed a post publication peer review of this IIT Roorke paper that claimed that it identified chemical components in cow urine that could highly efectively kill Chikungunya virus in lab conditions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… There are serious concerns in the paper that mandate post publication Editorial Review from the Journal and Publication Integrity Office, and need for validation of findings... that could mandate a retraction as per COPE Guidelines. A document with all concerns explained has been emailed to: 🟡Professor (Dr) Thomas F. Hofmann Editor-in-Chief ACS Agricultural Science & Technology 🟡Copy to: Publication Integrity Office ACS Publications, American Chemical Society 🟡Copy to: Professor (Dr) Laura McConnell Deputy Editor, ACS Agricultural Science & Technology 🟡Copy to:William King, The Managing Editor American Chemical Society A lay summary of major concerns are provided below: 🔴Possible areas of data fabrication, manipulation, and internal contradictions in the study claiming antiviral activity of cow urine distillate (CUD). 🔴Identical efficacy values reported for different experimental conditions, suggesting possible data duplication or carryover. 🔴Methodological flaws, including testing at cytotoxic concentrations, invalidating antiviral claims. 🔴Manipulation of synergy thresholds, using non-standard cut-offs to falsely claim synergism. 🔴Inconsistent and contradictory GC–MS datasets, with discrepancies in metabolite identification and absent compounds. 🔴Identification of synthetic pharmaceuticals, such as medroxyprogesterone, as natural metabolites, indicating contamination or misreporting. 🔴Implausible detection of prostaglandin A1, which is unstable and unlikely to survive high-temperature distillation. 🔴Lack of direct evidence linking identified metabolites to antiviral effects, with concentrations in CUD unverified. 🔴Cytotoxicity confounding viral inhibition results, with host cell death possibly causing false positives. 🔴Weak in silico and biochemical data, with docking scores and enzyme inhibition results unreliable. 🔴Structural inaccuracies in molecular docking, such as improbable hydrogen bonds. 🔴Statistical and analytical misrepresentations, including inappropriate synergy thresholds and wide variability without proper significance testing. 🔴Undeclared conflicts of interest, as funding sources and author affiliations favor traditional and cow-derived products. 🔴Numerous inconsistencies across figures and tables, including contradictory retention times and unlabelled peaks, undermining data credibility. Requesting for action from the Journal @ACSPublications @AmerChemSociety @ACSReactions ➡️Initiate an editorial review under ACS and COPE guidelines. ➡️Obtain raw data: plaque counts, cell viability, GC–MS spectra, and metabolite quantification.Verify compound identifications and concentrations with independent analysis. ➡️Reassess the validity of the claimed antiviral mechanism based on verified data. ➡️Reevaluate synergy analyses using standard criteria. ➡️Consider issuing an Expression of Concern pending investigation. ➡️If unresolved, proceed with retraction to protect scientific integrity and public health.

@theliverdoc IIT Roorkee deleted their first tweet after severe backlash. Again, posted and got mouth full. Now they disabled their comments. They are shameless lot!

You're still troll worthy and you have achieved nothing in life. Homeopathy is healthcare fraud which also defines its practitioners. The many who come for treatment are because you lie to them. Like you lie to yourself every single day of your life that you are a doctor. You're not.

Aren't you guys tired of this country's mismanagement? Life is not supposed to be this difficult for citizens. It's not like this in other countries. Please stop defending the government.

A journalist who is vehemently against Modi faced a unique problem. His daughter faced a fake case under UAPA in Kerala. She had never set foot in Kerala around the date of the registration of FIR. She had later taken admission in a course in Kerala but the dates did not match. This was under the Pinayari Government, which is seen as a government against BJP and Modi. Yet. So, the journalist friend had to go the Kerala to get the case withdrawn. The States Public Prosecutor was called for a meeting with the CM. In that meeting the PP agreed to withdraw the case. But did not withdraw the case. He demanded 5 Lakhs from the journalist to withdraw the case. The friend went back to the intermediary who had arranged the meeting with the CM. The friend was left with no option but to pay up, otherwise, his daughter would have been jailed. Eventually he paid 2 Lakhs cash for a case that did not even exist in the first place. But UAPA is so draconian that the accused has to prove that he is not guilty, turning all logic on its head. Normally it is the state that has to prove the person guilty, but under UAPA, the reverse is true. She had already completed the course and had got employment in another state with that state's government. As she had been named in the FIR and under UAPA, her job was terminated. Imagine, this was done in a state where BJP was not the ruling party. The point I am trying to make is that if the government takes it upon itself, it can use its draconian powers to harass any citizen, across party lines and ideology. In this instance, the case was filed by a Left Government against the daughter of a journalist who is working to expose the Modi government, thus making it impossible for him to blame the Modi government for the false case....

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.

@Priyaa_Purohit Narendra Modi himself is the most incompetent in the Cabinet. 99% time Modi is campaigning in elections. No work only Tamasha culture promoted by Modi himself.

There is nothing more dangerous to our nation than a donkey who thinks he is a vishwaguru.

By the SIR judgement, the SC virtually gives a blank cheque to a totally Partisan ECI to do what it wants with electoral rolls without even any transparency. It portends ill for our democracy & is a dark day for the SC

The government of this country has been at war for twelve years, waging battle against every institution that once served as the bedrock of stability amid chaos. And the government has succeeded in dismantling nearly all of them. Darker days ahead.

I understand why Narendra Modi is not sacking Dharmendra Pradhan as education minister despite the growing resentment among people: almost every leader in the world wants the youth of his country to be a reflection of him. In this case, illiterate liars.

IN 2013, INDIA AND CHINA WERE IN THE SAME RACE. IN 2026: CHINA IS RACING TO OVERTAKE AMERICA. INDIA IS BUSY BANNING THE COCKROACH JANATA PARTY ETC. So what went wrong? It’s quite simple: China built factories. We built optics. And history is brutally clear: Countries rise on competence… not choreography. #NoTelePrompter

“Global warming is not rising, out capacity to bear is decreasing..” “Rupee is not falling, dollar is strengthening” “Exam was offline, how can website be hacked…” — CBSE regional head From top to bottom, there is an intense competition in stupidity in the Modi govt.

Did Nehru fear Press Conferences?? No Did Shastriji fear PCs? No Did Indira Gandhi avoid PCs? NO Did Rajeev Gandhi fear PCs? NO Did PV Narasimha Rao rejected PCs? No Did Manmohan Singh fear PCs? No Only one cow@rd in history of India has avoided PCs. Guess who??

@iramsubramanian well, that makes a good case against Pradhan's resignation - lol.

@iramsubramanian hope it's not going to be something like Modi swapped with Yogi 😲