The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered unscientific - some of them have been debunked here and here (auto-captions available).
I can’t help but think why YouTube would immediately remove videos that spread misinformation, but only when it affects the western world, but not the other part? Clearly, this guy’s video is in English, he participates in collaborations with other misinformation-peddling YouTubers - the consequences of which a few percent of the billion people in India have to face - which is still, a lot of people? Sure, you can complain that it is the responsibility of the Indian government - but they are themselves in this business of pseudo-science. When there’s no one taking responsibility, I can’t help but feel helpless about the lies people will hear.
Edit: And to why this matters, there’s an on-going case in the Supreme Court of India. Said “guru” sold Coronil kit, and mocked dying doctors. What did the kit do? It had high concentration of lead. Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips fought against it - and the system tried to punish him.
I don’t think this question is in the spirit of c/asklemmy. Some recent posts which I think are in the spirit:
I’m not a fan of posts that use c/asklemmy as a catch-all community, but unfortunately the mods have gone AWOL.
So you’re saying only pointless questions can be asked? If you want to break it down that way then every question could be posted on a more specific community.
It’s not that hard to understand what c/asklemmy is supposed to be about: it was one of the first communities created on the original Lemmy instance (this one) as a clone of r/AskReddit.
I wish I could ask this in other community, but there seems to be none that cater to address specifically on pseudoscience or rationality.