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Here is an example of exactly HOW NOT to design a study and publish.
A grp of #ayurveda vaidyas published:💡Clinical Improvement In #COVID19 #patients With Timely Intervention Of Panchagavya: Preliminary Finding
💵International Journal of Pharmacological Research
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First, choice of #journal. Choose one indexed in valid scientific databases - eg @Scopus, Medline @NCBI, @embase, @EBSCO, @webofscience. International Journal of Pharmacological Research is indexed👇😶
Just bcoz its on Google doesn't mean its quality. #pseudoscience #fake
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There R indexed and impactful journals charging #openaccess fee (eg @JHEP_Reports) if the institute can afford it. Most quality indexed, impactful journals (eg @HEP_Journal) dont have open access fee to publish, but #Subscription fee for persons to read #published study.
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The current journal, The International Journal of Pharmacological Research - isnt indexed, doesn't have an impact factor, no valid presence in scientific repositories, has a blurry editorial board charging an open access fee - the making of a #PredatoryPublishing STAY AWAY.
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Now the study and obnoxious results:
#Gomutra or distilled #cow urine was given, along with prescribed medications to three very mild COVID-19 positive patients. All three recovered from #COVID19 with no #complications. That's it. That's the study and its conclusions.
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So what is wrong?
First, case study/series must have an intro section providing insight, references 2 previous work which made possibl current work. In this study, authors hav written non-structured BACKGROUND (with study conclusions!) followed by INTRODUCTION which is nuts.
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Methodology is quite hilarious.
All 3 patients wit #coronavirus (patient+2 fam members) were treated 'telephonically' - i.e, they were told over the phone to take distilled cow urine 'while they are at home'. This means, tat #Covid infection was very mild at outset #science
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Once they were confirmed #SARSCoV2 , underwent admission to a Covid hospital at Nagpur and underwent ultra-proper treatment (they got every thing undr the sun along wit cowurine). After gov hospital based treatment they were deemed #Covid -ve & send home
All medications 👇😱
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Finally, authors conclude that cowurine improved immunity (how it did is up2 readers fantasy) and all patients recovered wit cow urine. They then dive into the imaginary reasons why this is so, in the process, stretching readers imagination and then, sudenly discus #Cancer!
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Im not sure why cow urine was used, and not human urine. Both hav similar composition, properties. Human urine easily available, people can donate free. Collection jars at public urinals ensure steady flow 4 clinical use. This discussion is missing from limitation section😵
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The authors finally call 4 population study on cow urine FOLLOWED BY in-vitro study. Interesting reverse science. They conclude that comorbidly ill patients with #coronavirus recover with cow urine, based on family study of 3 who received all treatments under the Sun.
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So wat is conclusion!? If you hav #COVID19, esp mild #Disease, call #cowurine #Ayurveda helpline, buy distilled cowurine packs, go 2 nearby modern hospital, get treated, get well. Witout drinking, jus holding on2 urine pack in a proper hospital promotes wellness as well.
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But let us not belittle urine so much. It has potential, as another study shows (Sreedevi et al , IJPP 2016)
When human urine used wit farmyard manure, mazie crops grew better than wit cow urine. Its time for another #ayush team to look into this combo therapy in #COVID19
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Apr 20
Breaking: Our exhaustive paper on liver toxicity of various herbs/ plants used in Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (Ayush) systems of alternative medicine is out now (free to read)
with @arifhussaintm

This paper was initially an invited paper by an Indian journal. The reviewers and Editorial board rejected the "invited" paper because they thought the paper was "too critical" of traditional, cultural and religious [unscientific] aspects of healthcare practice among Indian community and feared backlash from the alternative systems regulatory body (Ayush Ministry) and Ayurveda and Homeopathy practitioners & their organizations of they accepted their own "invited" paper.

The Indian medical science community is now hostage to it's unscientific past due to a deepening lack of scientific temperament among doctors, worrying knee-jerk response style assault from the alternative medicine industry/practitioners/regulators and general apathy towards patients & public health. It's disappointing.

Since they were spineless to publish our factual paper, we sent this to a neutral journal for peer review (which is got through) and paid open access publication fee, so that everyone could read it for free.

Please read and share this important paper which educates physicians on herbal liver toxicity from seemingly benign plant sources which they need to be aware of.

The subsequent posts also highlights infographics summary of various toxic Ayush-based botanicals that are increasingly reported to harm public and patients.

Thanks in advance, and I hope doctors in India start fearlessly respecting science rather than intentionally embracing ignorance & selfishly covering up themselves in a safety bubble, thereby endangering public health in the process.journals.lww.com/md-journal/ful…Image
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The classical response from Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda sympathizers (and other alternative medicine practitioners) when debating the role of alternative medicine in healthcare is to "go and study Ayurveda or read Ayurveda" to understand it better. This is a logical fallacy, a kind of escapism. Dr. Kanojia here, has not read the Ayurvedic texts, which is why, he keeps fielding for Ayurveda.

India has a 5 year teaching course for students for Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery called BAMS.

I have the complete syllabus collection of all curriculum approved text books of Ayurveda in my home library. I spent almost two years reading every single book taught in BAMS syllabus.

Classical Ayurvedic teaching material is rich in misogyny, nauseatingly magical thinking, extreme levels of animal cruelty and meat eating, primitive observations, primal herbal and interventional therapies and principles of practice based on obsolete humoral and elemental theories of disease formation and diagnosis.

For example:

For treatment of large tumors, honey was applied over the growth, flies are allowed to lay eggs on the tumor and the maggots are allowed to eat the tumor from within. The residual tumor is then burned off.

For women in obstructive labor, the hips, buttocks are beaten, the lady is made to inhale smoke from burned snake skin and feathers are used for tickling.

For the treatment of tuberculosis (there was no germ theory at the time, but descriptions of emaciation in tuberculosis was observed) the patient is fed herbs and made to drink alcohol (alcohol is in fact one of the risk factors for tuberculosis as we know now) and cure is achieved by massages from "beautiful ladies."

For treatment of seizures in children, demons were considered the cause (they still teach this in the BAMS curriculum) and such demonic possessions were slayed using prayers and chants.

For treatment of diabetes (there was no knowledge of actual diabetes, it was called Premeha and there were different types of Premeha based on diet/ activity, semen quality and based on "doshas". Ayurvedic texts describe some of the causes of "diabetes" to eating meat and drinking milk. There are nearly 20 types of diabetes described in Ayurveda - which of course, is nonsense.

For treatment of sexual disorders, testicles of various types of animals were boiled with herbs and the formulation applied or drank to increase sexual prowess and to "have sex with a 1000 women."

The bottom line is, if you actually read/study the Ayurvedic texts, you'll realize how completely absurd & pseudoscientific the whole system is and you'll never vouch for it again. I am sharing some excerpts from BAMS textbooks in the subsequent post.

Do not send your children to study BAMS and of course, do not read these texts. I did, so that you dont have to. It will take you to a dark place.
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Number of people dead from small pox from 1900 to 1980 - THREE HUNDRED MILLION.

Number of people dead due to small pox after 1980
- ZERO. https://t.co/AyC2qFAvkp
Diphtheria

Number of deaths in 1920's before introduction of vaccine, reported annually in the United States - 13,000 to 15,000.

Number of deaths reported from 1996 to 2018 in the United States - ONE.
https://t.co/ISKQJuqHeA
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Survivors - disabled for life.

Number of cases after 1994 in Western Hemisphere
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