More on Prahalad Jani...

Hardcore readers of this blog will be aware of Prahalad Jani, the godman who neither eats nor drinks (and it has been revealed, nor defecates nor urinates) and the DRDO research project. We made a snarky post on it.

It looks like we have to eat our words, for an interim report has come out: after fifteen days of close observation, during which time Prahalad Jani did not eat or drink anything- he is perfectly normal, in some aspects, better than normal, too.

Experts baffled as Mataji's medical reports are normal - dnaindia.com:

"Usually, if a person does not urinate for 72 hours, he faces grave chances of kidney failure, say medical practitioners. But Prahalad Jani, affectionately known as Mataji, who claims to have survived without food and water for 65 years, and on whom a team of 30 doctors conducted rigorous medical tests, has not passed stools or urine for 65 years. It has baffled medical experts and scientists."

We are sorry, Baba.

Either Autism is a rumour or is contagious...

Either Autism is a rumour or is contagious is some way we don't know how.


"Researchers at Columbia University say that a child who lives 250 meters from another child who has been diagnosed with autism has a 42 percent increased chance of being diagnosed himself or herself. Children who live between 250 and 500 meters of another child diagnosed with autism have a 22 percent increased chance of being diagnosed themselves. The researchers based this conclusion on a study of more than 300,000 children in California between 1997 and 2003. Children who live further away from another child diagnosed with autism have a lower risk of being diagnosed themselves."

via The Essential Read 

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