Jayakrishnan Menon

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science... The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

When a patient is in the hospital, doctors used to use paper notes to communicate with one another. In the EHR era, the note stopped being a clinical communication tool and became a billing and compliance artifact. The results have been a disaster. One JAMA study found notes got 60.1% longer from 2009 to 2018, while redundancy rose 22%. ONC has explicitly acknowledged that clinicians use templates to stuff notes with unnecessary information into the chart to meet billing requirements, creating note bloat. The clinical note was no longer a method of communication. It was a billing document. So hospitals layered secure chat on top just to communicate the actual plan of care. And even that workaround is not working. A 2024 JAMA study found more secure messaging was associated with more time on the phone, not less. Doctors needed to call to clarify the now constant message stream. Another study found higher messaging volume was associated with higher odds of errors. More messages means a higher cognitive load with most of the information being low-importance. This increased cognitive load leads to more errors. We took what should have been efficiency improving technology, a computerized chart, and so over-regulated it and misaligned incentives that it has led to harmful downstream effects. Now, please don't do this with AI...

I am surprised at the outrage over the Robodog and Orion. Academic fraud is inbuilt into Indian education systems and sanctioned by the powers that be. When India created an incentive structure where business benefits are tied to rankings, this had to happen. Autonomy, graded autonomy, opening fresh campuses, starting new courses, permission to offer online degrees was all tied to rankings – NIRF or QS.  At a governmental level, the diktat is to get into QS so that India can make big claims, each year. Even the PM tweets when the rankings are declared. Here is an example of how rankings benefit businesses: “HEI can be entitled to offer online programmes (i.e., entered into the “entitled list” without requiring prior approval every time) if it meets one of the following: - Valid NAAC score ≥ 3.26, OR - Rank in Top 100 in the University category of the National Institutional Ranking Framework at least twice in three preceding cycles. The warning signals were always there. It is just that we chose to ignore as we can continue to make tall claims: 1. When we saw that all the IITs together aren’t doing as much research as a few private universities on their own, we should have questioned the quality of research. 2. In THE rankings, IISc  has a research Score of 51.6 while 5 private universities have a score of 90+. There are 70+ universities that are ranked above IISc in research alone. 3. We have patent filings increasing while patents granted was never increasing. We had four private universities filing for more patents, individually, than the combined IITS added together. 4. In Oct 2024, Chemistry World did an article: Are Indian higher education institutes gaming the ranking system?” 5. In Aug 2025, Nature Magazine wrote: India’s research retraction surge sparks call for reform 6. In Sep 2024, The Print wrote: “India’s research crime is getting worse: Scientists are gaming peer-review system” 7. In Jan 2025, Retraction Watch wrote “The 14 universities with publication metrics researchers say are too good to be true”. 4 of the 14 are from India and all are private universities. 8. In Jan 2026, ToI wrote: “Universities rush to file patents for rankings, few acquire commercial value” The only way we can achieve a 50 GER target with no corresponding investment is to do away with questioning quality and auditing numbers. We have to enable a few institutions to give online degrees and produce degree mills so that we can claim a 50 GER in 2020. It is systemic and well planned. I repeat - Academic Fraud is systematically inbuilt into India’s Education system.

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Make the sports books illegal again. unherd.com/2025/10/make-s…

The tyranny of wellness: When self-care becomes another performance metric, a psychosocial KPI. Your meditation app has a streak counter. Your watch grades your sleep. You can now "fail" at relaxation. It's gamified - because it's hard to muster internal motivation. The twisted irony: practices designed to cultivate presence become just another treadmill of goals, wins, and failures. We're not actually in the experience anymore, or if you are, that's duly noted and recorded. We can't hold on to it without some form of commodification. Nobody can follow every piece of wellness advice. The curriculum is impossible: morning pages AND meditation AND 10,000 steps AND strength training AND meal prep AND gratitude journaling AND cold plunges AND... there's not enough hours in the day. We end up potentially exhausted from our self-care routines, because we've been redlining the RPMs on that count. Maybe we're walking around with low-grade guilt or shame about all the "self-care" we're failing at and should be doing better. Where's my A+? Wisdom makes a difference here.

For the public and patients, please do not stop vaccinating your children. You don't want polio to come back. You don't want measles to kill your child like it is doing in the US because boomer uncles in charge of US Health Departments have become anti science. The conclusions of this study are not credible either. The "authors" who themselves are a bunch of antivaxxers, funded by an antivaxx organization, who published the study on their own antivaxx website. Not peer reviewed, not scrutinized. The low IQ authors have selectively amplified weaker associations while dismissing robust epidemiological data from millions showing no vaccine-autism link. The largest study ever on this, a Danish study found no association between childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. Here is the evidence, unlike the pathetic links shown by the other guy. aap.org/en/news-room/f… I had already called out this barefoot walking, urine-guzzling loving CEO boomer uncle before on his bullshit on medical and science, but it seems like he needs to bad mouth science and medical discoveries to keep his head floating above water level on social media considering the fact that his Arattai Messenger App and his Zohodotcom email is going the Koo way right into the gutters. These health Illiterates have themselves taken these vaccines, given their children their vaccines, and saw them enjoy longevity and now advising others to consider stopping vaccinations. How selfish and bigoted can this get? Uncle ji, a wise Gujarati chessmaster once told me, "Stay in your Lane", before he got busted out of his game trying to glorify pseudoscience. You also do the same and use the X payout from this engagement to fix your Arattai and Cherattai and whatever third rate app you are cooking up to fool your spinal level thinking bhakt pals. Ok? Delete your post you lime soda without fizz.

My teacher Dr Pande told me this early in my training. "You must choose who you are working for. It is about who you choose to become. An agent of change for your patient or a mercenary hired by the family" (She never minces her words). I spent 6 months learning systemic family therapy so that i can breech this impasse. It proved impossible (for me) in Indian family structure in most cases.

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Make this your must read for the day. We need to celebrate doctors like her. This is the story of Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a paediatrician from Hyderabad, who fought for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS. Her persistence led to FSSAI’s landmark order, protecting children and patients from misleading claims. “These drinks had 10x the sugar WHO recommends, worsening diarrhoea and complications in millions of kids,” she explains. Her 8-year battle changed the game for public health and children across India. What is sad is that it took 8 years for the government and regulator to understand that these so-called ORS drinks were harmful to children. We need to have quicker public health reforms.

🚨 24 transgenders attempted mass suicide by consuming floor cleaner in Indore Police say the act was triggered by frustration over alleged inaction in a rape and blackmail case Two men, Akshay Kumaon & Pankaj Jain, posing as journalists, allegedly raped and extorted a trans person three months ago Victims had filed a complaint, but slow response and harassment allegedly pushed the community to despair Officials say all 24 are now stable, but the incident exposes how ignored and unsafe India’s transgender community remains, even after years of “protection” laws

Do your kids play Roblox? You should read this explainer, about how the monetization strategies of multi-player games have changed, incentivizing companies to put kids into harmful situations in 8 ways. New at AfterBabel.com afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just…

The names and profiles of the 36 people named by the CBI in the medical college recognition scam are shocking. Now take a closer look – It starts with the former chairman of the country's most prestigious university regulatory body UGC: 1. D.P. Singh – former UGC chairman. The institution that should ensure the purity of higher education in the country, is the source of brokerage. 2. Dr. Jeetu Lal Meena – Joint Director, National Health Authority. Recommended fake recognition for private medical colleges amidst government responsibility. 3. Ravi Shankar Maharaj (Rawatpura Sarkar) – This college chairman, who calls himself a saint, turned medical education into a business. 4. Atul Kumar Tiwari – Director of SRIMSR. The contact person who “managed” the inspection team. 5. Laxminarayan Chandrakar – College accountant, used to maintain records of financial transactions. 6. Atin Kundu – College administrative officer. 7. Sanjay Shukla – Associated with the college network, coordinator of fake documents and faculty. 8. Dr. P. Rajni Reddy 9. Dr. Satish A. 10. Dr. Chaitra M.S. 11. Dr. Ashok Shelke All of them were members of the NMC inspection team, who prepared the report and took a hefty amount in return. 12. Piyush Malyan – Section Officer, Ministry of Health 13. Anup Jaiswal 14. Rahul Srivastava 15. Deepak, Manisha, Dharamveer – Other officials associated with the ministry Now let us stop at one name — 16. Dr. Shivani Agarwal – Director of NCR Medical College, Meerut. Her name is important because she is the daughter of three-time Legislative Council Member (MLC) and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr. Sarojini Agarwal. That is, a member of a political family was found to be a part of this entire medical mafia gang. 17. Mayur Rawal – Registrar, Geetanjali University, Udaipur 18. Suresh Singh Bhadoria – Chairman, Index Medical College, Indore 19. Venkat – Director, Gayatri Medical College, Visakhapatnam 20. Joseph Komareddy – Father, Colombo Institute, Warangal 21. Swami Bhaktavatsaldas – Swaminarayan Medical Institute, Gandhinagar 22. Dr. B. Hariprasad, Dr. Ankam Rambabu, Dr. Joshi Mathew, Dr. Virendra Kumar Now another revelation – According to the CBI chargesheet, one of the accused also built a grand temple in Rajasthan with the scam money. That is, the scam money was purified under the guise of religion. 23. R. Randeep Nair – Techinfi Solutions, which provided technical help in preparing fake documents. 24. Udit Narayan – Kanpur resident, contacts with many colleges. 25. Pradeep Agarwal, Indrabali Mishra alias 'Guruji' – Both of them were prominent in the brokerage network. 26. Sunil Mishra, Narendra Sahu, Manish Jain – They were responsible for fake faculty, documents and data entry. A total of 36 people are named in this charge sheet of CBI, which includes officers, doctors, saints, Netaji's daughter, and middlemen. They have serious allegations of taking bribes worth crores of rupees to get fake recognition for medical colleges, submitting fake documents, and corrupting the system. Now the question is - Will strict action be taken against such influential people? Will medical education be freed from brokers? Share this post so that the truth reaches everyone and commercialization of education can be stopped.

Rob Poole (who we all know from Twitter) talking about the people who don’t get better and the injustice of modern medical systems that don’t want to look after them.

AI is about to push back the frontiers of mental illness and reveal vistas of insanity that are as yet unimaginable.

It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.

In psychotherapy, every patient must ultimately choose between getting well and getting even

AI therapy is based on a delusion. It’s called the ELIZA effect. ELIZA was one of the first AI chatbots (1966!) designed to try to pass the Turing Test. Famously, a “DOCTOR” script was written that mimicked the responses a therapist in the school of Carl Rogers would give.

1/ This is what AI advocates always misunderstand about therapy. They think it’s an advantage that a machine cannot judge or disapprove. Not so Therapy is the psychological work it takes for us to become able to reveal ourselves to a human being—who *could* judge or disapprove