Meet Aniket Sule, the man who wants pseudosciences thrown out of education

Research such as on the medicinal value of cow urine gets funded easily, and speakers who make controversial remarks are invited to the Indian Science Congress

Aniket Sule’s ready response to messages forwarded on WhatsApp is to demand evidence for the statements made. So when news reports said that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had prescribed a reference book that makes unsubstantiated claims tying various scientific inventions directly to ancient Indian thinkers, the 39-year-old scientist and educator’s instincts swiftly took over. 

As the text in question, Bharatiya Vidya Saar, was not publicly available, Sule sought information from the journalist, who shared excerpts with him. Once Sule and scientists in his circle were satisfied that the writing was indeed contentious, he drafted and circulated