The reporter than quotes the Judge's stance as "deliberately misleading' as said by a few of his sources who refused to go on record!!! (Could it really get more absurd?).
CLAIM 5: Famous Russian scientist Shirovich: Houses plastered with cow dung are safe from radio waves.Using 10gms of cow ghee for yajna generates a tonne of oxygen."
Indian Express rebuttal: the only famous scientist with a similar sounding name is Lawrence Sirovich. Further, how can people talk on cellphones and watch TV in a room plastered with cow dung?
CLAIM 6: Agriculture scientists Dr. Julius and Dr. Book German: "Cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen."
Indian Express rebuttal: Animals exhale the unused part of oxygen (and by inference, not cows alone).
CLAIM 7: Dr. King, famous scientist of Madras: "Cow dung can destroy cholera germs."
Indian Express rebuttal: Websites such as Surabhi Goshalas of Andhra Pradesh cite Dr. King's work but it attributes it to cow milk and not dung.
CLAIM 8: Britain's Dr. Hamilton: "Cow urine cures heart disease."
Indian Express rebuttal: An unspecific and unverifiable claim found on many websites.
So what's the fuss about? What's vague and outlandish about the Judge's claims? I couldn't spot one in Express rebuttal. Typically, the newspaper believes most readers only read headlines and wouldn't bother to look at the text. But such is their compulsion they are prepared to lose the shirt and hit at the present dispensation.
The Express rebuttal had no valid criticism, none so whatsoever. It takes some ingenuity to write 1000 words on nothing. Express, sadly, does it every day, deriding the majority of this country, and of course the Modi government. An Indian newspaper treats its own country's magnificent heritage as a piece of garbage which makes one wonder with whom its' loyalty rests. Or at whose behest it abandons every single norm of honest journalism. Such venom and hostility would persist every single day for the next two year. But it would be with a caveat. The newspaper should be mindful they are being watched closely. Very closely. Eggs on the face would be routine too.
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