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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) by khallow on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:22AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:22AM (#784415) Journal

    It's all well and good to question your assumptions, but magical thinking which is scientifically implausible is not good for anybody, it just corrupts the scientific process.

    And on the other hand, there was value in the entrails readers of the past because that was someone that people would listen to. Sometimes all that is needed to fix problems is to listen - too bad it requires a lot of extraneous hocus pocus to get there for some people.

    Diversity of reality is not good for humans. It's a way to send us into a new dark (or I don't know "gray") age. We need to keep this era of alternative facts as far away from anything related to science as possible.

    You don't need consensus to benefit from technology or knowledge advances.