Dr S Ranganathan

  Our medical fraternity has recently reported the new threat called Mucormycosis in some COVID patients where different specialities of doctors starting from pulmonologist, cardiologist, diabetologist, opthamologist, mycologist, dentist, general physician, surgeon etc., are required to treat the COVID patient with mucormycosis?   It is quite interesting to credit and crown COVID for mucormycosis because it is already been declared that COVID causes severe immune problem; some say induces hyper immunity while some claim due to poor immunity only people become susceptible to the new virus.   To support the observation of mucormycosis, steroid use has been implicated which is bound to suppress the immunity although such therapy may be required at times to save the patient. The fundamental question is why Mucor alone infect the COVID patients and not any other most common and ubiquitously prevalent other fungi like species of Aspergillus?   If immune suppression d...

  Recently WHO (World Health Organization) has classified the Indian variant of COVID 19 as being “of concern”.     From the preview of WHO what is expected out of WHO, WHO has been done perfectly.   Now it is for India to research out why the strain of COVID 19 in India in the recent time has shown high communicability and is the high communicability of the virus is definitely also linked with its fatal nature?   We are more worried about the symptoms that we see at the surface level and are not really willing to go down to the root of the problem.   In India, we have contracted the responsibility of dealing COVID totally to the ‘epiphyte and parasite’ of the western medical science’ called allopathic system.   Most of the allopaths know only the language of western medicine and whatever findings observed in western population by the western medicos, our Indian medicos would simply cut and paste and then conclude.   In the case of non-infec...

  Man is only one of the species of life form on earth.   But man has made the earth his exclusive, inherited property where his dynastic right alone has space and voice.   In a sense, man had made the earth anthropocentric, where Homo sapiens alone matter and not any other species of life.   The above lines are not some philosophical rant but an absolute truth and the truth is nothing but ‘science’.   The question of whether anthropocentrism is the cause for COVID or the disgusting science that had made the COVID hype so much does not require any great debate or research to answer.    Anthropocentrism and our disgusting science both have made COVID immortal in India.   Those who live under reasonable ‘financial immortality’ parenthesis only had made the COVID problem acute and agonizing to the world.     The so called ‘financially immortal’ people may not have bothered if there was an outbreak of cholera or typhoid or hepa...

  It is always easy to move with the flow of water.   It is always nice if we can remain lazy and it is always merit the views of mass or mob is the general attitude of most Indians.     The hype and limelight given to COVID in India is also part of mob-psychology and not science or truth. The question is not about whether COVID is real or jinx or hoax and even if COVID is true, it is just an ordinary flu which we have blown out of proportion, threatened and terrorized people and what we witness today is nothing but the consequence of what we have sowed.   Naturally our medical science reaps the reward and thanks to Modi for sowing the seeds of fear and threat over COVID a year ago and imposing a senseless nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID. Any new pathogen when enters a new ecosystem (host), the possibility of the pathogen acting in an unfashionable manner is quite natural because the host is unfamiliar and hence the new invader needs to und...

  When the world is running after COVID to chase it down either with PCR test kit or with half-cooked vaccine (s), besides complicating the life of people by imposing meaningless lockdown and other nonsense, are we also dare to at least ask the fundamental question of can we prevent ‘medical Darwinism’ from happening and like how we posed our objections and protests against ‘Social Darwinism’? Darwinian Theory of natural selection in the realm of evolution asserts that the fittest alone would survive and so shall the trait or traits that are required to survive alone shall transmit to the next generation.   Before we subjective and highly emotional to differ to the views in the article, are we willing to look at the COVID surge scientifically; i.e., both from evolutionary as well as from economic perspective.     If we really make big noise over double mutant or triple mutant surge and describe it to be more fatal and communicable than the first one, we also mu...

  Every life-form on earth has an in-born urge and longing-ness to live healthy, remain immortal and will do everything possible (fight or flee) to achieve the ultimate goal of eternity.   Why even every cell our body also struggles for the same level and goal of permanent existence.   If we look at the nature and ask how the order, the beauty, the diversity, different types of adaptations and behavioural idiosyncrasies seen among the structure of the nature, in simple language, the father of evolution Charles Darwin has described the above, due to natural selection.   Natural selection is indeed a very slow process and the near final change may occur after several generations over thousands of years which our present science cannot predict as how long it may take and when to expect the change.   Even the direction of change is also difficult to predict in advance.   But the theory of natural selection is absolute science and those who show braveness ...

  People may call it is highly hysterical, bizarre, perverted, eccentric or insane to suggest the personal opinion of the author to Modiji to imprison our democracy for a while to cut the supply chain of fear mongering of COVID to save the humanity at large in India.   Continuous relay of the bad news about how many COVID cases are happening in the country, how many had died, how many are in the ICU, what aberration our medical services are facing to deal the increasing number of COVID cases, how loom our future is etc., on hourly basis by the media houses doesn’t seems to help people instead such bombarding of news items are only causing further panic and distress among people.   Such situation makes people much tensed, fearsome and as a result of, people runs from pillar to post to deal even very simple medical problems which they can easily manage at home.   Home quarantine and rest are only advised to most of the COVID patients by our medical body.   ...