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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].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @01:56AM (3 children)
The weird thing is some congresspeople seem to sponsor the bills for every single new commemorative coin. And that's like all they sponsor except when it is to do something like rename a post office.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:25AM (2 children)
If you don't do anything, you can't do anything wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:36AM
This is how deadwood survive in the public service
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday January 10 2019, @06:14PM
Sometime doing nothing is wrong.