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Leaving this here. According to IITM, firecrackers contributed 71% of Delhi's PM 2.5 pollution on Diwali night.
#BREAKING | Yogi Adityanath backs Diwali firecracker celebrations Yogi Adityanath said firecrackers were burst across Uttar Pradesh during Diwali and asserted that his government did not impose any restrictions on the festivities. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's remarks come amid the ongoing debate over pollution and festive celebrations. Abhishek Dutt, Congress leader, speaks to @vedikas on the controversy. #YogiAdityanath #Diwali
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Almost all of the world’s 100 most polluted cities are in India. We are the true ‘Vishwaguru’ of filthy air.
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Congratulations to everyone who insisted we burst more crackers. You were absolutely right! We are now proudly at #2 among the world’s most polluted cities. Clearly, we should have burst a little more to clinch the top spot. What a missed opportunity! 👏😷
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The audacity of the govt to threaten citizens with 3 months imprisonment for an expired pollution certificate while forcing us to breathe 400 AQI air everyday.
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India actually has a Minister for Environment. He has a full Ministry with huge staff. We pay for it each month. FYI only
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Today, the AQI in India, reached 3036 due to Diwali firecrackers. @grok Can you tell me its side effects, and how many cigarettes is this equivalent to?”
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Well, Professor Sanjeev Bagai is a BC Roy award winning Indian pediatrician, neonatologist, and pediatric nephrologist based in New Delhi, India. He is NOT an influencer or an influencer doctor that Deepinder Goyal claim others to be, who are trying to sabotage his humanity saving device. Prof. Bagai specifies that Temple Device sold for 85000/- rupees is actually not even worth calling a wellness or fitness device. All doctors cannot be on Twitter or on media doing this. But the few ones who are, including myself, speak for the ones who care about the public, and are rational, when we say, TEMPLE is India's original scam, like Elizabeth Holmes did it for Theranos and the USA. No doubts about it. It's basic foundational science is deadass. Like shipping a mummy from Egypt, calling it your Mama and waiting for it to respond.
#The5PMBrief | Temple vs medics: “Anything marketed in the name of wellness sells well in India. This is not a device intended for medical purposes.” Dr Sanjeev Bagai, Nephron Clinic Chief @poonam_burde | #TempleInvestment #MedicalCommunity #ScienceVsFaith #ScientificClaims #HealthDebate
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Goodmorning to you good people (not you Deepinder). Now that India has entered the commercial era of "scienceploitation", I would like to educate and inform the people on this topic, using one of Temple device's claims as an example. This is long, but stay with me, you will really benefit. But first, what is Scienceploitation? It is a marketing and communication tactic where brands, influencers, or media outlets borrow or manipulate language from legitimate, emerging areas of science (such as stem cell research, the microbiome, or epigenetics) to promote unproven health, wellness, or beauty products and services. The term was coined by @CaulfieldTim (I am honored to have known him and written an editorial with him in the BMJ), a professor of health law and policy at the University of Alberta. Temple Device is your first boss battle against scienceploitation. Let me explain this using their own biggest claim - ENTROPY. Temple claims it measures Entropy. What is entropy? In lay terms, entropy is a measure of how spread out, mixed up, or disorganized things naturally become over time. In human health, entropy can be a measure of disorder, wear and tear, and loss of organization in your body's cells, tissues, and organ systems. Low Entropy = High Health (Order): A young, healthy body is in a state of low entropy. Your cells are communicating well, your DNA is intact, your proteins are folded properly, and your heartbeats have a smooth, adaptable rhythm. High Entropy = Disease or Aging (Disorder): As entropy increases, biological "mess" builds up. Damaged DNA accumulates, proteins misfold, cells stop working right, and communication breaks down. Aging is essentially a slow, natural rise in entropy. While conditions like cancer (uncontrolled, chaotic cell growth), neurodegeneration (like Alzheimer’s protein tangles), and metabolic dysfunction (like uncontrolled blood sugar) represent spikes of high entropy in specific parts of the body. Note that - aging is a normal anatomical and physiological process, it is not a disease. Now you know how complex this term is? Well, this is what Deepinder Goyal's Temple device claims to measure. A device can produce a number without proving that the number means what its advertising says. That is the central problem with Temple’s “Entropy.” “Entropy” has different scientific meanings. In physics, it concerns energy transformations. In heartbeat or brainwave analysis, it describes how irregular or unpredictable a signal is. Measuring one does not mean you have measured the other, or someone’s overall health. Yes, wearable recordings can be used to calculate signal entropy. A Polar H10 chest strap, for example, records heartbeat intervals that suitable software can analyse. GE’s clinical Entropy monitor analyses electrical signals from the forehead to help assess anaesthesia. Neither tells you how much “disorder” your body contains or how long you will live. Temple’s published research describes an optical sensor that shines light into skin and detects changes associated with blood flow. That can provide useful physiological information of flow and perfusion only there or at the heart level, but not the brain or other systems. And detecting blood-related signals does not automatically measure whole-body heat loss, metabolism or thermodynamic entropy. Those claims are wild. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Researchers have estimated human thermodynamic entropy production. The experiment cited by Temple used a whole-body calorimeter, measurements of breathing gases and mathematical modelling. It did not demonstrate that a small optical sensor at the temple could do the same job. Misrepresenting and misinterpreting genuine research and extrapolating that to a new device does not establish that Temple performs the measurement described in that research - this is classical Scienceploitation. It Is "sciencey" word salads. Non-medical people will fall for this sort of gimmicks. Temple also claims that lower resting “Entropy” means better health. That is not an established universal rule. Even the theoretical paper it cites discusses the importance of maintaining adequate entropy production and increasing it when needed—not simply driving the resting value ever lower. A lower number needs a proven health meaning before it becomes a health goal. Deepinder's Science Team has to prove this first, before they let their "machine" measure it - if it really can. A reading that changes with exercise, meals, stress or temperature may be responding to real physiology. But that does not prove it measures immune health, digestion, reproductive function or recovery. Responding to many things is not the same as understanding or measuring all those things. Temple lists (their own) preliminary studies of heart rate and brain-circulation-related signals. Those studies do not establish the advertised health meanings of “Resting Entropy,” “Entropy Max” or “Span.” These cannot be measured using currently available wearable tech, including Temple. Combining readings into a new score does not remove the need to validate that score, or if the score is really meaningful to start with. Pretty much like Homeopathy. So much stuff, no content or context. Highly advanced wearable science is not impossible. The problem is presenting an unvalidated interpretation as an established fact about your body. Calling a product “wellness” does not make its scientific claims true. Temple device is the commercial, expensive example of consumer scienceploitation. The website needs to be updated with medical and health truths rather than magical thinking and delusions of so-called founder and his science team. Deepinder's Temple device is very much like Baba Ramdev's Coronil. Only one difference. Former is scienceploitation, latter is pseudoscience and both are harmful in their own ways. Learn to identify a scam and fraud when you see one.
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Dear @DDNewsHindi. Thank u for using our pictures. But we are @SGinIndia Singapore High Commission. Not Sri Lanka High Commission. Happy #Diwali #Deepavali #factcheck #goodjournalism. 🙏🙏 HC Wong
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Here’s a breakdown of nobody discussing anything important about a scientific revelation by a tech bro… Point no 1 - We will not prove ourselves right, please use your time & recourses to prove us wrong. Anyway we will not accept when proved wrong. Point no 2 - Give me Bharat Ratna & Nobel Prize as I’ve put 2/3 of my money behind my idea. Who even does that? Point no 3 - I’ll buy science if needed. I’ve money. Lots of money. 4. Our Employees are in on the Pyramid Scheme. Just like the guys who work at a scam call center are in on the scam. 5. If others can take 10 to 12years then we will at-least take 8 t0 10 years until then SHUT UP. 6. We have “our science”. Our science will find our claims to be correct. 7. I’m confident so that’s a great start for me & that is all that matters. 8. We will share more feature & call them ground breaking with our fraudcasters & other paid PR. PS - I haven’t responded to any scientific or medical concerns but FU I’m RICH & very confident.
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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-@anandmahindra Sir, do you have anything to say on this -While we want to support #India & #Indian companies -Companies also have to become accountable & safety minded -This is a very disturbing message for from a Friends: As you are aware, we were involved in a horrific accident on 1 January 2026 in our Mahindra BE6 electric vehicle. Mona suffered multiple fractures and was bedridden for nearly five months. I sustained three fractured ribs. My friend, a retired Air Force officer, suffered four fractures, while his wife was also seriously injured. The four of us went through an absolute nightmare over the following six days in Tuticorin, struggling with serious injuries, hospitalisation and eventual air-ambulance evacuations. Our vehicle suddenly accelerated from approximately 11 km/h to 63 km/h within seconds, without any intended acceleration by me, before crashing into a concrete wall. We have subsequently learned of three other serious accidents involving Mahindra electric vehicles. One involved a senior Congress leader from Pune, who reportedly suffered a devastating spinal injury resulting in paralysis. His family has described a strikingly similar incident involving sudden, uncontrolled acceleration. For the past eight months, I have repeatedly requested Mahindra to release the vehicle's FDR/EDR and electronic control data so that the actual cause can be independently investigated. Mahindra has refused to share this crucial information while maintaining that there was no vehicle malfunction. We are now initiating legal proceedings against Mahindra. Anand Mahindra recently celebrated the Indian Air Force Chief's selection of a Mahindra electric SUV with a post referring to “Air Superiority and Road Superiority.” Our distinguished friend Harish, a renowned test pilot, has responded to that post, raising the issue of our accident and Mahindra's accountability. I request you to support or even ask questions like what happened etc. -Harish's comment by replying to it, sharing your concerns and asking Anand Mahindra why the company has not released the electronic data for independent investigation. This is not merely about our accident. It is about vehicle safety, transparency and accountability, potentially affecting every family travelling in these vehicles. We are not asking Mahindra to accept responsibility without investigation. We are asking them to release the evidence so that the truth can be established.
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Good morning. Planning to release a product that will measure the function and mitochondrial function of the main chamber of the human heart. We have no studies done. We dont plan to do any. You have to trust us because we have lots of foundational science on this. Our human device comes for free, but you have to buy the main hub device thats going to go on your cat and the primary transmission hub that goes on your dog. If you don't have a cat or dog, our device won't work. Pets do not come inside our packaging. You can adopt them from our offices for a monthly fee. First 100 orders get pet food free for a month. Then you'll have to feed them. The device works, because we say so. We take returns of pets only. If the device doesn't work, that your fault, because you believed us, suckers.
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We don't comment on politics, but if we did, we would say the orange faced one has had all three stumps uprooted by a devastating reverse swinging yorker. No ball tampering detected.
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All the Gurugram Municipal Corporation needs to do is to repair all broken roads so that the dust particles don’t ruin our lives. They’ve not even cleared garbage post Monsoons
Gurugram has enforced strict anti-pollution curbs from 5th November, mandating a 50% work-from-home policy for government and private offices to cut down vehicular congestion and road emissions. The administration has also imposed a ban on construction and demolition activities. #DelhiPollution #AirQualityIndex #GurugramNews #AirPollution #WinterActionPlan #5Live | @Sonal_MK @AnmolBali9
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A closed sunroof should never fly off a car. Ours did, on a highway near Dhule at 80 km/h, six months after we bought our Mercedes Maybach EQS. A man on a bike behind us narrowly escaped @MercedesBenzInd @MercedesBenz @santiyer how is this acceptable? @MORTHIndia
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Delhi GRAP-2 ki aisi ki taisi! 😂😂 by trucks Spotted a truck bearing registration number HR-55 on the Meerut Expressway, near Akshardham, at approximately 11:08 PM tonight. I am surprised that despite strict GRAP restrictions in Delhi-NCR, such vehicles are still being allowed to enter Delhi and contribute to the already alarming pollution levels. What is the point of imposing GRAP-2 restrictions if enforcement agencies cannot stop violations on the ground? @CPCB_OFFICIAL @NGTIndia @dtptraffic @DelhiPolice @CMODelhi @CAQM_Official @DelhiGovt Requesting NGT, Delhi Traffic Police, CPCB, CAQM and all concerned authorities to urgently investigate this violation, verify the vehicle’s compliance and take strict action against those responsible. Delhi cannot afford more pollution because of weak enforcement. Rules must be enforced, not just announced! #DelhiPollution #GRAP3 #AirPollution #DelhiNCR #DelhiTrafficPolice #CPCB #NGT #CAQM #StopAirPollution #CleanAirIsOurRight #PollutionControl
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Clarification note from a doctor: Stop buying sh*tty dangerous supplements dressed up as "food" and start consuming whole foods. Protocol32, if this was just a "food supplement" then why all the hullabaloo about ingredients specific RCTs on your Canva poster and all that jazz from Yuvraj about him being a cancer warrior in the introduction? You don't even have a real study/trial registered! Are you guys smoking up your own product??? Never seen a company bury themselves alive before in a time loop. Just stop hurting yourselves.
Replying to @theliverdoc
Clarification Note from Protocol32
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Diet Coke is healthier, safer than Yuvraj's supplement. indiatoday.in/health/story/y…
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This is in very bad faith Yuvraj. You are a good cricketer, you are a strong human, a cancer survivor. But you are an absolute health and science illiterate. People like you and your business of bad science deeply damages science literacy and public health in our society. It is a pathetic. You can be powerful allies for cancer patients and oncology societies and use your voice to educate people on evidence-based preventative care and direct cancer patients towards science-based care for improved survival outcomes. But instead, you chose to team up with unethical businessmen - some with long degrees, lengthy certifications and in high positions without any functioning brain cell - and among them, one of the worst "health" influencers on the internet right now, the so-called cancer surgeon Arpit Bansal who is a pseudoscience sympathizer, an Ayurveda apologist and quite similar to Luke Coutinho, but with actual medical degrees wasted. Know this first: Cancer patients who use alternative medicine die sooner, study finds - nbcnews.com/health/health-ne… Now coming to your product - P32 Among the 32 listed ingredients with 35+ distinct compounds in them, 13 carry documented risks of organ toxicity, mineral toxicity, capable of causing/promoting atherosclerosis inducing toxin generation, and with high rates of toxic environmental contamination. Four ingredients - Ashwagandha, Bacopa, Curcumin and Boswellia are among the most frequently implicated botanicals in liver injury in LiverTox registries. When they come together, it is going to be disastrous. medpagetoday.com/gastroenter… - The person who designed this complex formulation is really a clown. Nearly all 30 active ingredients in this 32-ingredient supplement lack solid scientific proof for the health benefits promised on the label. First, the company's own chart admits that eight ingredients have no gold-standard human trials behind them - two are just inactive fillers, and six rely on weaker data or are added only for safety, yet are still marketed as multi-organ boosters. At least 11 ingredients are "fairy-dusted," meaning the sachet contains only a tiny fraction of the daily dose actually proven to work in human studies. High-level clinical and translational evidence demonstrates that several components in this sachet can actually increase cancer risk or accelerate tumor progression in healthy adults: Vitamin E (prostate cancer), combined folic acid+B12 (lung and colon cancer) and NAC, Vit E, Vit C, Astaxanthin (increase risk of cancer spread). See this paper: Supplement Use and Increased Risks of Cancer: Unveiling the Other Side of the Coin - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… Finally, the product stretches basic science by assuming that because a nutrient deficiency harms certain organs, taking extra amounts will supercharge those same organs in healthy adults who already get enough nutrients. Your product is absolute BS just like the whole of herbal and dietary supplement industry is. Have some shame selling this nonsense to public and people with cancer. I hope nobody accepts your stupid invite.
My second innings starts now. In 2011, I played the World Cup with cancer. Nobody knew. Neither did I. Now I take my daily health very seriously. So should entire India. Most Indians who take supplements take one, two or three. That isn’t enough to run the body. So we built Protocol32: 32 FSSAI-approved supplements, in the right quantities for an average Indian, working together to run 13 chains in the body. One sachet a day, mixed in water or milk. Co-formulated with Dr. Anurag Agrawal and Dr. Arpit Bansal. Built with Prashant Pitti and Prasad C P. Made in Bangalore. Swipe through to see every supplement, every dose and every chain. Protocol32 is invite only. The first batch is only a few hundred people, and we’re starting with fitness, health and nutrition creators, doctors, dietitians, entrepreneurs and celebrities. Apply at protocol32.com @P32wellness
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The biggest hidden billing ambush in Indian summer retail: "Free Standard AC Installation." You buy a 1.5 ton split AC on sale for ₹25,000 to ₹34,000. The box clearly says: "Installation Included." 2 days later, 2 technicians arrive with a drilling machine. One glances at your wall, walks out to the balcony, and says: Sir, standard install only includes 3 meters of copper pipe. Your outdoor unit is 4.5 meters away. Extra copper pipe: ₹950/meter. Outdoor iron wall bracket: ₹1,500. Drain pipe extension: ₹350. Heavy electrical MCB switch: ₹850. You only wanted cool air. You end up paying ₹5,500 cash in hand before the compressor even turns on. "Free installation" in India is just a paid entry ticket for technicians to sell hardware at 300% markup. What did your "free" AC installation actually end up costing you?
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