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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].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by driverless on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:41AM
On a more serious note, it is pure politics:
Lots of countries have resorted to this. Look at Nazi Germany, usually held up as an example of a super science-focused establishment, and yet they propped it up with nonsense from the Ahnenerbe, including gems like researching the racial connection between Germans and Japanese based on attempts to find similarities between Nordic runes and Japanese Kana.