The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...
I’d be happy to be corrected, but there is no clear definition of what constitutes science, short of blindly following authority of some institution prone to funding politics.
In medicine, funding is known to be ultimately controlled by big corporates, making “established science” murkier than, say, the science of standardization of units.
The voter turnout dropped heavily in the first phase when compared to previous elections. What is exactly happening? Are people losing faith in democracy? Or they are getting lazy thinking “aayega to modi hi”? Whatever it is, it’s dangerous for democracy and must be fixed.
That’s only half of what is wrong with NOTA. The other half is that the voters who use NOTA are more likely to be the educated and mindful ones… and the party that was in power when NOTA was implemented, wanted such voters to squander their votes.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
Another fake “prodigy” from India is busted. This one lasted about two years and had attained significant social media following from his home-state....
What's the most embarrassing thing about you?
Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus....
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)
Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
What would you ask to a potential partner in a partner compatibility survey?
That special milk (sh.itjust.works)
Now that there is a precedent... (lemmy.ml)
And “dictator” Modi can’t do anything about it. Like he couldn’t do anything about “satyāgrahi” Kejriwal’s bail....
Chad VLC (lemm.ee)
Vemula's family not satisfied by how Congress govt closed the case
Case was closed wothin 4 months of Congress coming to power in Telengana. The family is petitioning again.
Biden calls US ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with Russia and China (www.cnn.com)
Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?
The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...
Why is there no excitement of elections?
The voter turnout dropped heavily in the first phase when compared to previous elections. What is exactly happening? Are people losing faith in democracy? Or they are getting lazy thinking “aayega to modi hi”? Whatever it is, it’s dangerous for democracy and must be fixed.
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
was this not allowed before? (slrpnk.net)
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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
What is a story were the main villain actually turned out to be the good guy?
Atheists of lemmy what is a stereotype about us that is just not true?
CIA terminates whistleblower who prompted flood of sexual misconduct complaints (apnews.com)
Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
Antilia bomb scare: NIA finds white Innova car that accompanied explosive-laden Scorpio at [Mumbai Police Commissioner] Param Bir Singh's office (www.opindia.com)
What could have Mukesh Ambani done to get on the bad side of senior cops of Mumbai?
जटिल समाचार : RSS affiliated secular muslim wants to do a ritual in Ram Mandir. (t.me)
"Drone Boy" fails to prove his claims in his response to OpIndia fact-check (www.opindia.com)
Another fake “prodigy” from India is busted. This one lasted about two years and had attained significant social media following from his home-state....
Requesting c/India. (lemmy.ml)
The mod is nowhere to be seen and I had to create c/Bharat just to fill the void....