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This conversation is a great example of what is wrong with the discourse when it comes to our healthcare. This is a longish thread, so please bear with me.The anchor frames the debate playing the manufactured outrage of Mr Ramdev on being called out for breaking a law 1/n https://twitter.com/Neurophysik/status/1278371731082752004
2/n on the books and being given a get-out-jail free card. The participants defending the industry speak to every possible related topic under the sun, except the issue in question. The fact that the doctor from Jaslok hospital is honest enough to admit that there is no "cure"
3/n for this disease becomes a hot-potato among the Ayush practitioners to say "see, even allopathy has no cure". Was that even a point of discussion? Did anyone say that evidence based medicine has a "cure" for this disease?
4/n One of the practitioners of Ayush speaks of increasing immunity without understanding what it means in the prognosis or treatment of this disease. @Neurophysik soundly refuted this line of thinking. Of course this will not register on any of the cheerleaders of Ayush.
5/n The oft-cited talking point is that there are many publication in Pubmed of studies done on ayurvedic products is repeated over and over again. Anyone who has spent ten minutes on Pubmed will attest to the fact that many of these publications are in-vitro, a few
6/n in basic animal models and often published in predatory journals like OMICS. I am glad Sumaiya took this argument down with facts; something that will not register among the cheerleaders of the Ayush industry.
The issue is as follows. No one can force anyone to buy or not
The issue is as follows. No one can force anyone to buy or not
7/n not buy any product; it is a free country. If someone believes sugar pills cure an illness, more power to them. The issue is whether someone who professes to be a manufacturer of these products is held to a different standard when it comes to breaking the law on the books
8/n compared to everyone else despite the orchestrated drama he put up for the benefit of the gullible. Sadly, that would have been a good topic to debate, but as usual, there really little discipline in holding a honest debate.
9/n The Ayush practitioners then raise HCQs as another shiny object. What they dont admit is the evidence based method works. Studies in HCQs were done ETHICALLY, following GCPs. There are so many holes in the way the supposed "Clinical Control Trial" that Mr Ramdev touts
from study design, inclusion/exclusion criteria, enrollment, interim analysis...the list goes on. No one is stopping any manufacturer in conducting a clinical study of any product they believe is therapeutic AS LONG AS THEY FOLLOW GCP. This is obviously convenient for Ayush
11/n cheerleaders to NOT TO acknowledge. Just shouting why did you test HCQs shows their hypocrisy.
This is a good example of how people conduct what goes for a debate today.
Lastly, the anchor summarizes the debate... I dont even want to go there. What an abomination!
This is a good example of how people conduct what goes for a debate today.
Lastly, the anchor summarizes the debate... I dont even want to go there. What an abomination!
