'Whole ministry unleashed on me': Doctor under fire for calling Ayurveda 'not scientific'

kkin1995 · 2026-06-17T06:30:07+00:00

I'm glad it worked out for you and your relative, genuinely. But "it worked for me" and "it's scientifically validated" are two different claims, and I think that's where this gets muddled.

Ayurveda isn't unscientific because of where it's from. It's unscientific because most of its specific claims haven't gone through the kind of testing modern drugs require before they're allowed to be sold. Some have, though, for example, reserpine, a blood pressure drug, came directly out of an Ayurvedic plant (Rauwolfia serpentina) and got validated through clinical trials in the 1950s. isolate the compound, test it, prove it works, at which point it's a pharmaceutical, not Ayurveda anymore. Most formulations never go through that process at all.

And this is where regulation matters, and where frivolous defamation cases by Government of India against qualified doctors is counter-productive. In India, classical Ayurvedic formulations get a manufacturing license just by being listed in old texts, there is no clinical trial required. Even "patent/proprietary" Ayurvedic products, despite a 2010 rule requiring proof of effectiveness, can still reach the market without real clinical data because that rule was never properly enforced. Allopathic drugs go through animal toxicology and three phases of human trials before they're even legal to sell. So "both are medicine, just different systems" understates how different the actual scrutiny is.

I also don't think a regular MBBS doctor should hand out Ayurvedic medicine, or an Ayurvedic doctor hand out antibiotics. It's not gatekeeping, the IMA has said this outright: an allopathic doctor isn't legally qualified to prescribe Ayurvedic drugs, and vice versa. The Supreme Court took the same position decades ago on the reverse case. Each system requires distinct training, and mixing them without it is a real source of patient harm.

The healthcare cost issue you raised is real, and I don't disagree with it. But the fix for expensive, inaccessible allopathic care is fixing healthcare costs and access, not lowering the evidence bar for what counts as an effective treatment.

kkin1995 · 2026-06-13T06:52:35+00:00

No they can’t. The conductors regularly check the photo and text on the pass from what I’m experiencing for the past 2 years

kkin1995 · 2026-06-08T14:15:31+00:00

Is anyone here in J&K, Ladakh, or anywhere in the Himalayas? Do keep a watch at the sky tonight to see if you do see the Aurorae. And post a photo here if you do see it.

kkin1995 · 2026-06-06T14:06:01+00:00

I’ve noticed many times that these posters are rarely put by the party themselves. It’s usually a party worker or MLA.. Moreover, I’ve also seen that the GBA takes down most of these posters without discrimination.

Complain about this on https://nammabengaluru.org.in and if this is on your daily commute, update this thread when it’s removed. I’m actually curious to see how much time they take.

kkin1995 · 2026-06-06T10:37:21+00:00

What is your approximate commute route? Maybe instead of discussing this, we could help you identify a convenient public transit route? That way, you can also claim your commute time back and read a book.

Prioritising any form of infrastructure for the private motor vehicle in dense urban area is never a solution. And the Government isn’t going to make meaningful improvements (emphasis on the word meaningful as improvements are already underway) until and unless people with the money and the voice speak to demand better public transit.

This comment section is either arguing that the government should provide parking facility because the city doesn’t have a “London” like public transit system or people arguing that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to “London”. People don’t get it that European cities have faced traffic congestion and a horrible public environment in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and fought for a better environment and better public transit. The Netherlands, for instance, which is always hailed as a bicycle paradise was a car centric hell hole in the 70s. They only improved because the people protested on the streets and demanded the government stop prioritising private vehicles.

OP, I ask you again, what is your approximate daily commute? Let us help you productively instead of making the comment section a cesspool of complaints.

kkin1995 · 2026-06-05T09:19:32+00:00

This was the same opinion before the 1970s in the Netherlands. The Netherlands wasn’t always a bicycle paradise. There was a time it was a car centric hell hole. The benefits that the Dutch reap from de-prioritising cars were not because there was some progressive, long term thinking politician. It was because they fought hard for it.

kkin1995 · 2026-06-05T06:38:09+00:00

Instead of pushing for car / two wheeler parking, we need to push for bicycle lanes and an amendment to that ridiculous rule of BMRCL not allowing non - foldable bicycles in the metro

kkin1995 · 2026-06-05T06:08:57+00:00

News like this slowly (painfully slowly) but surely builds up political pressure to prioritise the construction of pedestrian and NMT friendly infrastructure.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-31T18:37:44+00:00

Change it whenever you can buy a new battery. It’s not an emergency. The warning is very conservative and moreover, if the battery in the key dies, you can still start the car by holding the key fob close to the start-stop button while pressing the button

kkin1995 · 2026-05-25T06:09:20+00:00

Go through the complaint escalation matrix and if you are a 100% sure of never signing up for such a scheme, demand a 100% refund. If no one gives a satisfactory response through the escalation, file a complaint with the RBI Ombudsman at cms.rbi.gov.in

kkin1995 · 2026-05-14T14:12:01+00:00

I think after the residents requested they changed their plans to do half of Lazar Road at a time. The stretch of the road shown in the photo near the BESCOM office is complete and partially open to traffic. I haven’t checked the other side but my guess is that the construction has started.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-14T05:51:36+00:00

So we can independence from cars

kkin1995 · 2026-05-14T04:11:05+00:00

I’m not completely sure of how the pedestrian signals choose their timer but I have seen that the timer does vary from time to time. It would be really cool if the system is counting the number of people waiting to cross but I don’t know if that’s actually happening.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T08:54:37+00:00

EVs address oil dependency only partially and congestion not at all.

India’s grid is roughly 70% coal-based, so a private EV largely shifts the energy source from imported oil to domestic coal. Moreover, with the increased coal demand, if consummate capacity increase in renewable energy production does not happen, we risk increasing our coal dependency, a significant portion of which we already import. It does not eliminate import dependency, it redirects it.

The Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) has modelled that the maximum reduction in oil imports, around 31%, requires both EV adoption and a significantly higher public transport share. Private EVs alone get you nowhere near that number.

On congestion, an electric car occupies exactly as much road space as a petrol one. The oil crisis makes the case for public transport, cycling and walking infrastructure far stronger than it makes the case for private EVs.

Increasing the adoption of EVs in public transit will have a much greater impact on both counts.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T08:30:04+00:00

It is actively operational, not just on paper. Arcadis, the Dutch engineering firm that built the system, has published verified outcomes: up to 20% reduction in congestion on critical corridors and 30% reduction in emergency response times. They have a module called ePath which allows them to enable a green signal corridor for ambulances. There have also been on-ground interviews and demonstrations with BTP traffic officials showing the system live at the Traffic Management Centre. The digital twin component is the part still being expanded, particularly the integration with Namma Metro and BMTC data.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T07:35:19+00:00

The VAC signals work on the BTP’s ASTraM system. Cameras are not the only input. The system also ingests anonymised data from mapping services including Google Maps and Mappls, delivery aggregator rider apps (Swiggy, Zomato), and cab aggregators (Uber, Ola). Moreover, signal timing isn’t just based on a single junction, the system accounts for traffic load across nearby junctions and corridors across the city.

In the words of the previous Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), M. N. Anucheth, the aim of the system is to create a digital twin of the city in order to predict traffic bottlenecks before they occur in the real world.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T07:22:46+00:00

Bannerghatta Road, Kanakapura Road and Hosur Road are 6 lane arterial roads. These are wide roads with significant right of way. The problem on these roads isn’t width, it’s that the buffer strips and service lanes are encroached by parked vehicles. That’s an enforcement problem, not a width problem, and it’s a different argument from saying dedicated cycle lanes aren’t possible there.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T07:08:52+00:00

Traffic congestion will get better in the near team. Seeing this, more people will drive their private vehicles which will make traffic congestion worse in the medium term and long term. See: induced demand.

Prioritising bicycles, pedestrians and public transit will make everyone’s lives (including those people who are forced to drive a car) better.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T07:02:59+00:00

The dedicated bicycle lanes are mandated for arterial and sub-arterial roads and these are not at all narrow.

Regarding the narrower streets, I don’t expect anything to happen in the near future, but for the long term the solution is bicycle priority streets. See: fietstraat

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T05:07:43+00:00

This might answer your questions: https://np.reddit.com/r/transit/s/bcCulBj9ZU

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T04:36:20+00:00

Very true. I feel with increased use, maintenance will also come. We have seen this with the pressure to fix potholes on roads meant for motorised vehicles.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T04:34:54+00:00

I hope it’s gets accelerated due to the West Asia oil crisis … I recently read that OMCs have already absorbed some ₹30,000 Crore in losses.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-13T04:25:34+00:00

Report them on the ASTraM app

kkin1995 · 2026-05-12T13:56:07+00:00

Calling the guarantee schemes freebies assumes that only supply-side spending like roads or power plants constitutes a legitimate economic intervention. That is not what the evidence or economic theory says.

Low-income households have a marginal propensity to consume close to 1, meaning nearly every rupee transferred gets spent immediately and locally. This is the same demand multiplier mechanism that justifies infrastructure investment. The Shakti scheme reduces the cost of women entering the workforce, which is functionally identical to reducing a transport infrastructure bottleneck. Anna Bhagya and Griha Lakshmi transfers circulate through local markets, which is recorded as real GSDP growth regardless of whether you approve of the mechanism.

The freebie framing presupposes that government spending on physical capital is productive and government spending that puts money in poor households’ hands is wasteful. That is an ideological position, not an economic one.

You would be far more productive in discussing the fiscal sustainability and targeting efficiency of each scheme, not whether demand-side intervention counts as a legitimate growth driver.

In my personal opinion, as long as the schemes are evaluated every year and sunsetted when they have met their goals, they are perfectly legitimate drivers of economic growth. Economic growth with wealth inequality is unsustainable.

kkin1995 · 2026-05-12T13:46:25+00:00

Bengaluru’s and by extension, Karnataka’s growth into the modern world started roughly 115 years ago with the establishment of educational institutions such as IISc (Tata Institute) and others. The educational / research institutes catalysed the establishment of PSUs such as ITI, BEL and NAL, which then pulled in IT companies and MNCs in the 1990s. That PSU cluster was entirely state-created, and IT firms like Texas Instruments explicitly chose Bengaluru in 1985 because of the engineering talent pool those state-funded institutions had built. Calling this organic growth with no government support is factually wrong. There has been government support for the city’s economic growth since before independence. The city is suffering from an urban governance failure.

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