TheLiverDoc™

"It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness." skeptic.org.uk/2025/10/dr-cyr… I am the first Asian, the first Indian to receive this prestigious award given to science communicators who fight misinformation and pseudoscience. "Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, a doctor and expert on the harms caused by alternative medicine in India, has today been named the 2025 recipient of the Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism by The Skeptic magazine. Dr Philips, a clinician-scientist in Hepatology at Rajagiri Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, has spent over a decade highlighting the dangers of homeopathy, herbal remedies, and superstition in India, sharing his expertise with more than 430,000 followers across X, Instagram and YouTube. His work in countering health misinformation has been featured across the national and international media – resulting in campaigns of harassment and litigation by supporters of India’s powerful herbal and homeopathic industries." To everyone who supported me, who stood by me, who raised my voice...my big thanks and appreciation. Science communication cannot progress without science loving rationalists like you all. Thank you to the @TheSkepticMag and the @merseyskeptics, to the editor in chief @MrMMarsh and the @QEDcon awards and scientific committee of the Okhams for choosing me, giving me stage and helping me raise my voice on the unstoppable work I do against the unrelentless pseudoscientific drivel that people of my country are been subjected to... with regulatory support. Only the medical community can fight back for the public and patients... and this prestigious award and recognition gives the few medical science communicators in India, like me, more fuel to burn ourselves for the better. This is an award for all rationalists and scientific communicators in India and I'm proud to make this ours, not mine alone. Jai Hind. PS: deeply grateful for the few minutes of thunderous standing ovation at the end of my presentation from the massive crowd who gathered on a rainy day in Manchester to fill the main stage event. It was unlike anything I had experienced. I'll never forget it.🙏

All major central/state government medical institutes in India including apex hospitals such as All India Institutes of Medical Science (AIIMS) and National institute of mental health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) promote and treat serious diseases with integrative medicine.

@divyanshsainy1 You should have chosen Ayurveda 🤡

@theliverdoc Trauma surgeon Residency final year 🙃

I am sorry everyone, we all know who is coming after me. Maybe goodbyes are in order.

@divyanshsainy1 What "Dr" are you?

@theliverdoc Don’t give yourself that much importance

@rajeshkumarpv Yes...I just saw

@theliverdoc DrNimoyadav & few others got blocked since yesterday .

@Ikigaimode apt!

@theliverdoc x.com/i/status/20345…

@s_shalinee Why did you delete the post? That itself means you know your question was stupid?

@theliverdoc Docb no need to snub off I'm here to understand,I thought u r the right person to ask this question.

@s_shalinee Ayurveda is pseudoscience, not limited science. There was never science in ancient India. Thats why its Ayur (life) and Veda (knowlegde). It is easy to understand this and accept it, if you have deep knowledge about principles in epistemological systems in medicine.

@theliverdoc I have rather never listened to any treatment of ""root cause"" of any disease by Ayurveda.i always call Ayurveda as limited science than pseudo science.For all the lifestyle related conditions which are in a repairable state,a modern medicine practitioner always asks to exercise

This is a never-ending, absolutely brainless and utterly nonsensical "argument" that suckers of alternative medicine and sympathizers of Ayurveda and Homeopathy keep asking the medical community. This shows how poorly educated the common social media troll is about human body, basic diseases and simple management goals. 200 years ago (early 1800s), Type 1 diabetes was a guaranteed death sentence - diagnosis to death in weeks to months, often in children. Even Type 2 diabetes patients with significant disease rarely survived long. It wasn't until Banting and Best discovered insulin in 1921 that a child with diabetes stopped being a child with a funeral date. Before insulin, doctors [known as Allopaths at the time] literally prescribed starvation diets as the only way to buy a few extra months. Hypertension (not BP - that is blood pressure) wasn't even recognized as a disease 200 years ago. No sphygmomanometer in clinical use until the late 1800s. People simply dropped dead of "apoplexy" (strokes) and "dropsy" (heart failure) in their 40s and nobody knew why. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the 32nd President of the United States died of uncontrolled hypertension in 1945 - even that recently, effective antihypertensives didn't exist. Average post-diagnosis survival with malignant hypertension in the 1930s was about 6 months. Hypothyroidism (not thyroid - that is the gland) severe cases progressed to myxedema coma — fatal in the vast majority 200 years ago. Cretinism (congenital hypothyroidism) left entire mountain communities with irreversible intellectual disability. Every single one of these "incurable" conditions was a killer or a crippler before modern medicine turned them into manageable chronic diseases. That's not failure - that's a miracle this troll is too scientifically illiterate to appreciate. Some diseases do not require a cure. They require control. Remission. People live long lives because medical science and scientific discoveries entered the chat. So dear fool, please dont bring this rotten argument like a headless chicken, into an adult conversation ever again.

@mountainfox I have received many letters from the State Med Council.

@theliverdoc Here only question that's important is did u get any letter/email from state medical council. If Not it's always 🟢 for u

Left: Ayurveda practitioners have initiated the process regarding providing evidence. Right: The various documents from Courts, Police officers, Lawyers and Regulatory authorities harassing me to stop speaking against alternative medicine practitioners and practices. Intimidating medical science communicators and gagging them from improving scientific temperament, is the only expertise that alternative medicine practitioners are capable of.

@greenu_george 🙏🙏

@theliverdoc Guy’s just follow @theliverdoc youtube channel ! All your queries will be answered Monday, Wednesday and Friday are the day’s for new video! Stay tuned. :) (thanks for the info doc :)

@vs_sanidh Ancient "wisdom" vs. Science-based medicine. For most of human history, people only lived for about 30 years. In the last two centuries, the global life expectancy has risen to 72 years.

@theliverdoc The BS Vaidya at the debate confidently explained how long people lived in the ‘good old days.’ A quick glance at basic life expectancy data might have saved her from that masterpiece of nonsense.

@vehla_trader Absolutely! You understood it well 🤝

@theliverdoc This is exactly the message a regular person needs to hear. Not all diseases can be fixed completely.Modern medicine helps in managing the disease better.The messaging & expectations for the patient needs to be set correctly. Otherwise the quacks entraps them with bogus claims

@sureshchowdhary Taking it as an opportunity to teach history of medicine. Always looking at the glass half full.

@theliverdoc Next time please do not reply to these types of infants. 🥶

@PaleBlueTweet Man! Everyone should know Oogway!

@theliverdoc Sorry doc. I am very old school when it comes to cartoons. I had to look this up. I am still in the He-Man, Jungle Book era! Not to forget Johnny and his Magic Lamp 😝

@p_vams1 @PaleBlueTweet Nice!

@theliverdoc @PaleBlueTweet Asked Gemini to make a map of the discussion, and seems that the Vaidya skipped or diverted most of them. The 'answered' tag is also actually incorrect, but Gemini isn't considering the nuances of the debate

We should maintain the decorum. Always. And Forever. h/t @PaleBlueTweet Source: youtube.com/watch?v=z1_zou…

@vgkvignesh1804 Many FIRs filed against me on criminal defamation via police stations.

@theliverdoc Police officers? But why?

@meghnath1789 Just because you did not have pain, doesnt mean your gallstones have gone away.

@theliverdoc Genuine question: Can gall stones be cured by Ayurveda medicines? I was diagnosed with having gall stones and the only option given to me was to remove my gall bladder. I then went on a strict diet for 6 months while taking Ayurveda medicines and I never had the pain again.

@aksiiita06 @X Twitter is not soft with these pseudos. Instagram is fertile soil for quacks and frauds,

@theliverdoc Can they write "dr" in their name? Why all scammers exist only on Instagram. Why don't they come here on @X Maybe, they all fold here in 10 mins.