ഞാൻ ഒരിക്കൽ സംസ്ഥാനത്തിന് പുറത്തു പഠിക്കുമ്പോൾ ഒരാളുമായി ഒരു തർക്കം നടന്നു – അയാൾ പറഞ്ഞു : “മനുഷ്യൻ ശരിക്കും വെജിറ്റേറിയൻ ആണ് . നമ്മുടെ പണ്ടുണ്ടായിരുന്ന പൂർവിക മനുഷ്യരും വെജിറ്റേറിയൻ തന്നെ. നമ്മൾ ആവണം ” ഉടൻ ഞാൻ ഇടങ്കോലിട്ടു . ഇടണമല്ലോ . നമ്മൾ നോൺ വെജിറ്റേറിയൻ ആണല്ലോ . അപ്പോൾ പിന്നെ ഉടക്കിയല്ലേ പറ്റൂ . നമ്മുടെ മനസ്സിലെ ന്യായീകരണ ഫാക്ടറി ഇങ്ങനെയാണ് വർക് ചെയ്യുന്നത് . നമ്മൾ […]
Category: Healthy life – the right balance
Semmelweiss and Science: A lesson
One thing about fighting pseudo science, in Medicine in particular – is that one does encounter nuts. There is no proof that germs cause disease. Microorganisms exist, but are like worms, just found in regions of the body that are diseased. Even more hilarious: Where is the bloody proof? It is all an international conspiracy. […]
Bullshit and Balanced Fact- What We Eat.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of human beings as of now. Number one. We cant escape that fact. Both in men and women. It includes coronary artery disease and ischemic stroke. We cannot have old age as acause of death. Old people also die of something, and it turns out that Cardiovascular disease […]
But I don’t eat much!
I arrived a day before the conference. The idea was to spend the day with Vignesh, a friend from my schooldays. He was now running his own software consultancy in Bangalore. It was immediately after my MBBS, and both of us were bachelors. I remembered Vignesh as a pleasantly plump boy who smiled while licking […]
Eureka- I got it. Now give me the Nobel
I am a reasonably modest man. I don’t claim to have made many scientific discoveries. Yet there is one tremendous secret that I have discovered. They say that if you discover the cure for the common cold, you will become a millionaire. The cure for overweight should definitely come in the same league? If so […]