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Dear Concerned Indian Doctors, I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points to make: 1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D. 2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run. 3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck. 4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table. 5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up. 6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public. 7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use. Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭 Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗

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Think CAS is completely screwing with algo logic. Algos are still putting orders based on 3.15 price without paying heed to the indicative closing price. And once that hits, the futures move massively. Would guess they would have fixed this by now, but doesn't look like.

It is very unfortunate that an Indian Ministry has to resort to cheap abuse tactics, threats and harassment, instead of proving me wrong. The Government, through the National Commission for Homeopathy HAS THREATENED ME WITH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS if I do not apologize for calling out Homeopathy as quackery/ fraud and delete my content on Homeopathy. This is also the SAME Government who taxes me and other citizens like me, to FUND HOMEOPATHY and pay salary of these people in Homeopathy Public Institutes who have written this atrocious letter to me. Dear @ForHomeopathy @moayush @secymoayush Please find your conditions and my responses below, in public: National Council for Homeopathy says: Therefore, for the first and last time, you are hereby called upon to: i. Remove/Delete all the content uploaded by you on every Social Media Platforms which criticizes the Homeopathy Medicine or any other alternative medicine My response: No I will not. My content are factual and science based. It follows Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution which outlines one of the Fundamental Duties for every citizen - "to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform." In this regard, my content is based on my Constitutional Rights and against an pseudoscientific and unscientific practice like Homeopathy and is fully backed by evidence and facts. If you can prove all of those evidences wrong, I will remove all of my content on Homeopathy. Homeopathy has been called many things before and I have only borrowed what has been highlighted in public domain and medical literature. Some of the sources for my online content is given below for your reference: Homeopathy is pseudoscience: link.springer.com/article/10… Homeopathy is fraud and quackery: youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z7KeNC… Homeopathy is unscientific: mcgill.ca/oss/article/medica… Homeopathy is witchcraft: cognitionandculture.net/blog… and deccanherald.com/business/ho… If you can remove these sources, I will remove my content. ii. Stop making, circulating or disseminating any further derogatory, defamatory remarks in future against Homeopathy and its practitioners My Response: I cannot guarantee this. As doctors and scientists, it is our right to correct healthcare misinformation. Any further publicizing of unverified claims from the Homeopathy community - whether the Ministry, the practitioners or the industry, will be dealt with strong and aggressive corrective measures from the scientific community including me. For me to stop doing this, Homeopathy practitioners must stop claiming benefits of therapy and stop making misleading content online. Homeopathy community must keep quite and disappear to a corner, and then the scientific community will keep quite and let you be invisible in that corner. Homeopathy graduates on Instagram and Facebook keep creating content that they can cure cancer, treat chronic skin disorders, mental health conditions, diabetes and thyroid diseases and autoimmune conditions. First, ask them to stop that - then come to lecture me. iii. Issue a public apology and clarification, through the same platforms on which the offending posts were uploaded, acknowledging deep regret for the use of defamatory expressions My Response: First, The National Commission for Homeopathy and the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, New Delhi, India MUST issue a issue a public apology and clarification, through all social media platforms , acknowledging deep regret for wasting public money on a fraudulent Homeopathy study which was RETRACTED for scientific fraud. See here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… and here timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…. Once your apology is in place, then I may consider an apology, after you prove me wrong, like I proved the scientific fraud in your retracted Homeopathy paper. It was a national disgrace. iv. Furnish a written undertaking that you shall refrain from repeating such acts in future. My Response: I am sorry, I wont be able to do that - because as a clinical doctor and medical scientist and medical teacher in India, as long as Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution is alive, I will repeat my education on unscientific practices for the benefit of the public. This is my first and last time, calling upon the National Commission for Homeopathy and the Homeopathy community: i. Refrain from sending me these hollow threats, first prove me wrong on all my points raised in my contents online (example: why is cockroach used to treat asthma - what is the pathogenetic basis and pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of it) ii. Prove to the public that Homeopathy is not a pseudoscience or quackery by removing the original sources I have used to describe Homeopathy (links above) and all such sources which I will use in the future. iii. Apologize to the Indian public PUBLICLY for wasting public funds that are used to publish scientific fraud iv. PROVIDE A RESPONSE TO OUR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN THE SUPREME COURT'S ORDER TO YOU - livelaw.in/top-stories/uprem… - about why Homeopathy was used on population level scale that led to harm to public, wasting public money. v: Send me an apology letter for wasting my time which could have been used to diagnose and treat patients at my place of work. Do not try to gag voices that improve scientific temperament in this country, because you are anyway not doing anything to promote science in India. @CaulfieldTim @EdzardErnst @TheSkepticMag @McGillOSS @RichardDawkins

For me, this is a pivotal moment in my science communication career, from India perspective. Probably the first time, a major national media invited me to write an fact-based piece on a completely rubbish alternative medicine system that enjoys government protection - Homeopathy. Please make this your must read of the day. I dissect every common nonsensical claim from the homeopathy community and bury age-old myths associated with this 200-plus year old obsolete pre-science artefact that still enjoys an undeserving place in Indian healthcare and which also destroys many young careers. Well done and thank you Indian Express and Ms. Rinku Ghosh, the lead on health, for this! I really welcome this change! No one should be afraid of reporting facts about health misinformation even if it is government supported or promoted. This is the people's right. Full read: Homeopathy survives for reasons that have little to do with effective healthcare. indianexpress.com/article/he…

Absolutely agree, Sudhir Bhai. Esop taxation at exercise is bizarre because employees have to run helter skelter to borrow money to pay tax on illiquid shares or founders have to arrange for a loan. Investor wants co to get his money and not go for tax…so Esop grants also tend to get constrained. Capital Gains Tax at Sale like all other income…this change is overdue to encourage employees take risk with founders for a big pay day @PMOIndia @FinMinIndia

Vodafone has massive legitimate claims pending with GOI — ₹1,482 cr+ in GST/service tax refund disputes, income tax refunds pending for years, manipulated GST demands, and the extraordinary #OTSC case of ₹3,857 crores where the Government ITSELF sought court withdrawal — and the court refused. Litigant wants to leave. Judge won’t let it. Justice Misra — God only knows what drives this judicial enthusiasm when the sovereign itself seeks closure. OTSC resolution alone means ₹3,000–4,000 cr in DOT refunds plus removal of ₹15,000+ cr contingent liability from the entire industry. AGR — perhaps India’s most creative regulatory fiction. @DoT_India gets its cut whether you earn from telecom or ANY other business. Every rupee, every stream. Supreme Court upheld it — but upholding a definition doesn’t make it just. This wasn’t regulation. This was extraction dressed in legal language, bleeding an industry for over a decade. Digital Bharat Nidhi sits on ₹80,000–86,000 crores. Biggest contributor? Vodafone. Utilisation? Largely nothing. Government keeps extracting SUC levies, spectrum charges and AGR dues from the very company that filled it. These contributions were collected for a specific purpose — universal digital access — not as a slush fund for indefinite parking. If unutilised, they must be refunded to contributors. Governments are accountable to their citizens. Public money collected under a stated mandate cannot simply sit while the same contributors are bled dry elsewhere. Filling a tank nobody drives is not policy. It is impunity. BSNL got ₹3,00,000 crores of taxpayer money while haemorrhaging market share. Vodafone built its network with private capital and fights alone for survival. The silence around this asymmetry is as breathtaking as the asymmetry itself. Starkest injustice — spectrum. #RCom converted 800 MHz CDMA spectrum across 16 circles to LTE for just ₹5,384 crores under administrative allocation. #Vodafone and #Bhartiartl #ttml etc paid TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CRORES through competitive auctions for comparable holdings. Same spectrum. Same circles. Radically different price. If this isn’t unequal treatment institutionalised in policy — what is? Post-merger Vodafone carries surplus spectrum it cannot use and cannot surrender. Forced liability. Zero benefit. And then the final insult — the government took equity in Vodafone, not as a fair investor but against manipulated liabilities, effectively robbing existing shareholders. That equity, extracted under duress against contestable dues, must be cancelled or reversed. Fairness and judicial integrity demand nothing less. Through all of this @AdityaBirlaGroup has not flinched. Not walked. You don’t commit this conviction to a lost cause. You do it when truth is on your side and reversals are coming. Vodafone will survive and thrive. Liabilities contestable. Refunds real. Corpus real. Undervaluation real. Buy or hold #idea for an one year for true valuation to surface. Hats off to #Vodafone and @AdityaBirlaGroup — fighting not just for shareholders but for every investor and citizen who believes regulatory fairness is not too much to ask from the world’s largest democracy . Hope they are raising all these issues if not @narendramodi @JM_Scindia pls do justice 🙏🇮🇳 #Vi #AGR #Telecom #DOT #SatyamevJayate

1/ Owing to high barriers to entry, India’s lodging and hotels industry has become a cartel that raises prices at will and fleeces customers. India’s luxury hotel average daily rate (ADR) in Mumbai and Delhi now rival those of New York and London. Absurdly enough, the financial press sometimes celebrates this as some triumph of Indian hospitality. It is nothing of the sort. High prices are the unmistakable stamp of a supply-constrained market in a low income country, which should actually have a very competitively priced and deep pool of lodging options. The hotel industry is a structural failure being hyped as a success.

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My Instagram account was briefly suspended today. Here is why. @instagram caters to maintaining misinformation, while suspending those who call out misinformation. An Ayurvedic practitioner Vaidya Ravinder Kaushik (instagram.com/drravinder.261…) of Anantya Healthcare based in Gurgaon (anantyahealthcare.com/pages/…) was responsible for the brief suspension of my Instagram because I called out his fraud practices - including his claim of Ayurvedic treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Here is my post that was taken down because the so-called Ayurvedic "expert" in "genetic medicine" could not tolerate scientific criticism - that was harming his business. 1/11

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