Dr S Ranganathan

The hullaballoo and hallelujah over novel coronavirus by the world is far from over.  No sensible person on earth (a general expression) would ever dare to speak truth if such truth is going to affect his or her profit and gains in long run and therefore the novel coronavirus would stay in all probability, forever, thanks to the sense and sensibility of the word called science.   Now a new sister or brother of the novel coronavirus – a new mutant has been discovered in UK and which is claimed to be more infectious and or virulent than the old one.   Interestingly the vaccine that is being developed against the old virus may not work against the new mutant because the type of immune protection the developed vaccine likely to offer to the host against the new mutant is quite quixotic and doubtful.  It means, another vaccine to protect man against the new mutant is inevitable.  More science is going to happen, scientists are going to be busy and so ...

  If I ever get a chance to meet and speak to God, more than seeking his blessings to my life, would show curiosity to know whom the God would like to admire and thank for his luminous existence in the human world such as devotees, missionaries of God or an atheist or the combination of all.      The beauty of human intelligence is that it would continue to support what it believes as true and also would continue to generate data and evidences to sustain such belief system.   God may find it hard to answer if the question was, who among the three groups of people such as devotee or missionary of God or an atheist is sincere to God because all the three groups people are prisoners of own making and hence cannot be true to God more than to own belief system. If the topic is taken up for a debate at philosophical or spiritual level, certainly the debate would end only in infinity and no worthwhile consensus acceptable to all would ever emerge.    ...

  The debate over either herd immunity against COVID 19 or a vaccine alone would protect humanity from the pandemic is happening at global level but unfortunately the scientific community seldom recognize the abundant truth that exist in India and which wards off the virus called unheard, un-herd immunity .   The above terminology is never used in immunology nor would be accept also.   Human mind always fantasise over illusionary or mirage images and possibilities than what really exist next to us, so cruelly and brutally.   We must analyse and accept the existence of unheard, un-herd immunity in India.   The world had already claimed that the newly emerged coronavirus is new and that is why it is named as novel coronavirus and the disease thus caused by the virus is called COVID 19.    The virus is new, meaning, no one knows anything about the virus and hence everything our scientific world describes about the virus are mere personalized observa...

The recent discovery of COVID 19 reducing the male sex hormone called testosterone and that could be one of the possible reasons for why men die more due to COVID 19 than women points only towards the very purposeful and meaningful evolution of novel coronavirus and also suggests the clear objective of the evolution in facilitating such virus.   Such an assumption or notion in general is barred and anathematized by those who think they are the real custodians of science, because, according to them accommodating all such possibilities would make science look quite primitive and barbaric.   But the same ‘genera’ of custodians of science can fear monger about the virus, break the social and intimate fabric of our society by forcing people to follow social distancing, reducing the ability of the nostril which has evolved in man over several thousands of years from protecting us and instead man must wear mask hereon in the world of novel coronavirus etc., are scientific a...

The innate and adaptive immunity in man proves nothing but the evolution and biology believes more in itself than in human intelligence or, medical or other allied research advancements of man.   After all, man is also a product of evolution only.   If man could easily surpass pathogens through his medical research and sophisticated gadgets to diagnose the disease and or perform surgery and have drugs to treat diseases means, where is the need for acquired and adaptive immune defence?   Innate immune defence is born with the man whereas the adaptive or acquired immunity; where the adaptive immunity is obtained either by active means or by passive means. Man hasn’t recognized own immune defence mechanism so greatly than the medical advancement, corporate hospitals, high name tag bearing medical practitioners, super speciality diagnosis gadgets etc.   No doctor can cure any disease just with drugs or surgical intervention alone and the positive outcome of treatment i...

  The question of whether the herbal recipes (herbs boiled in water or oil, made into paste with sugar or honey or just dried and powered and called as churna or mixed with faecal matter of several animals, toxic metals and animal parts) can act like a ‘drug’ and cure diseases itself is very crude, untidy and juvenile from the scientific per se.     Let us not tries to fit the herbal recipes into the definition frame of ‘drug’ as described by the allopathic science and instead let us accept all such products as mere extension of ‘silly science’ of the past and such porridge were made more with ‘individualized fallacy’, fatal love over ignorance and need to establish the supremacy of an imbecile over innocence and gullibility around.   Certainly faith medicines in India enjoy the claps of the devotees of God since time immemorial and also patronage of the spiritual leaders.   Like a tape work or hook worm, the faith based healing system has entered into hum...

A few cases of reinfection of COVID 19 are getting reported from different parts of the world and which means, in scientific sense those who got recovered from the virus attack have again turns positive for the virus sooner or later, possibly with symptoms.   The question is whether they were only positive for the viral genome and or presented with full blown COVID symptoms as well is not clear in most reports.   When someone turned positive for the virus for the second time obviously must have some strong symptoms otherwise why should they go for testing the virus by RT PCR?   What we really need to know is whether the second episode is more severe from the symptom per se or the second episode is quite mild and manageable?   Was there any patient presenting only clinical signs but were negative for the virus?     It is already stated clearly that the lingering effect of COVID would continue post elimination of the virus and hence why all those did...