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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the einstein-dismisses-india-scientists dept.

BBC:

Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Hindu mythology and religion-based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.

But experts said remarks at this year's summit were especially ludicrous.

[...] The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.

G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.

Another scientist from a university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu told conference attendees that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed "Narendra Modi Waves" [Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India].


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:52PM (#783895)

    Indian academics need to move with the times and concentrate on a gender specific wage gap, systemic racism and "gender fluidity" in a sexually dimorphic species.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @01:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @01:38AM (#783938)

    The genders [wikia.com]! We're up to 1010⁴ genders!