Thread by @vakibs

What is the earliest mention of the scientific method, anywhere in the world?

It is the "Yukti" of Charakasamhita. Āyurvēda gifted the scientific method to the world. It was also the most advanced medical system for the most of the human civilization, until a few centuries ago.

https://twitter.com/raghurajs_hegde/status/1330393035159572484

It is ridiculous to the extreme to say that Āyurvēda has no scientific rationale. But people don't question this, because they are brainwashed over several centuries of colonialism. Any bullshit written in English becomes scientific in the minds of these braindead people.

Most people don't know, but all the pioneering academic universities in Europe have started off with the medical department around a collection of medicinal plants, which are borrowed mostly from India. These botanical gardens are the centre-piece around any European university.

How did India get to such supreme level of medical knowledge? The scientific method of Āyurvēda, that's why. The same thing is also true of Jyōtisha (astronomy), Indian knowledge was superior because its scientific method was superior. Until as recently as a few centuries ago.

Indians have become lobotomized by the colonial education, which assigns all the sciences to European origin (typically some Greek, but doesn't matter). They don't even ask if India had any authentic scientific method. It did, and it *is* superior to the western method, even now.

The reason why the Indian scientific method is superior to the western method is due to two important aspects:

1) The Indian science of linguistics is superior to the west, by far.

2) The Indian system of logic and inference is superior to the west.
indiafacts.org/chatuskoti-fou…

These twin sciences of Tarka (logic) and Vyākarana (grammar/computation) are the foundation for all Indian sciences. This is why the Indian scientific method is superior. On the contrary, the British colonial education credits the scientific method to silly nonsense like Euclid.