Commentaries

Collection of Additional anti P-Con Editorials

Mondegreens & whispers

      The power of suggestibility is all it took to send a wave of devotees to listen closely to BBT tapes in the quest to find suspicious whispers that could be used to support the charade that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned.  These sleuths apparently felt those who allegedly did this terrible deed were foolish enough to […]

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History Of Cadmium

Much of the propaganda generated about the poison allegations takes advantage of distortions related to the history of how cadmium was discovered, developed and particularly the medical knowledge of how it interacts with the physical body. This timeline is presented to clarify what we knew about this heavy metal, and when we knew it.

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Chandra Swami (No Connection)

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/chandra%20swami.htm In his book “Someone Has Poisoned Me“, Nityananda Das has spent a whole chapter trying to establish a link between an Indian man called Chandra Swami and the alleged poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. Although he is unable to provide any real evidence of this, Nityananda Das attempts to persuade the reader through various drawn

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Hair Analysis Shows No Signs Poisoning

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/hair%20analysis.htm This chapter will document important scientific facts regarding analysis of hair arsenic levels in Srila Prabhupada’s hair relics. Nityananda Das has claimed that Prabhupada’s hair levels were recorded at 3ppm and that this represents solid evidence that “undoubtedly Srila Prabhupada was maliciously poisoned.” We will show that this assertion is untrue, with reference to

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Prabhupada’s Surgeon Confirms: Diabetes to Blame

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/surgeon.htm After being encouraged to further investigate the allegations of arsenic poisoning made by Nityananda Das and others, it was decided that we should try to contact the doctor who performed the operation on Srila Prabhupada in England, just over two months before his passing. As one of the only Western health professionals to treat

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Not That I Am Poisoned… Quote!

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/conversations.htm Among those who feel there may be some truth to the poison rumors, much of their concern relates to the words spoken by Srila Prabhupada and those around him, in his final days. Poison theorists like to repeat Prabhupada’s words like, “Someone says that someone has given poison, it’s possible”, and other such equivocal

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Nico Kuyt’s Diagnosis: Assorted Anomalies

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/anomalies.htm In chapter 32 of ‘Someone Has Poisoned Me,’ Nityananda Das has summarized his medical ‘evidence’ under the heading “Health Biography Analysis”. There he tries to link all of Srila Prabhupada’s symptoms to arsenic poisoning. We will show that most of this chapter is total misinformation, and is not supported by any available scientific literature.

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The Will-o’-the Whispers

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/whispers.htm The now infamous “poison whispers” make up a large part of the so-called evidence in support of the conspiracy theory. These are found primarily on the conversation tapes of the 10th November, 1977. In fact, the whole poison controversy began when some devotees heard whispers on these tapes that sounded like references to poison.

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Reverse Speech: Bogus Dhanesvara!

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/reverse%20speech.htm One of the leading advocates for the poison theory, Dhanesvara Das s released a number of papers reporting on his reverse speech investigations. There he repeatedly refers the reader to the work of David John Oates, who founded the technique, and cites him as the authority on reverse speech. Dhanesvara also tacitly implies that

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Attempt To Poison with cadmium

                A very convincing way to understand how reckless it is for anyone to believe Srila Prabhupad was poisoned by cadmium it to learn from what actually happened when someone attempted to do that.  The poison conspiracy fraudsters claim that cadmium is tasteless and would not be noticed or have immediate affects after it is

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Medical Diagnosis: Diabetes

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/medical%20evidence.htm The lack of specific clinical symptoms of arsenicosis such as Mees’ lines, hyperkeratosis and raindrop pigmentation indicates that arsenic poisoning was not to blame for the illness of Srila Prabhupada. Rather, his condition was symptomatic of type 2 diabetes mellitus, causing high blood pressure, peripheral neuropathy and heart problems, including myocardial infarction and stroke.

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Cadmium & Snuff

This is a very informative article written by a devotee called Narendra.  He proposes that an alternative explanation for the alleged high cadmium reading in Srila Prabupadas’ hair could be do to the fact that HDG used it to keep him awake in the early mornings of the day when He translated.  What is particularly

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Chandra Swami Diversion

https://www.iskcon.org.au/notpoisoned/scientific/chandra%20swami.htm In his book “Someone Has Poisoned Me“, Nityananda Das has spent a whole chapter trying to establish a link between an Indian man called Chandra Swami and the alleged poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. Although he is unable to provide any real evidence of this, Nityananda Das attempts to persuade the reader through various drawn

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India’s Deadly Arsenic Belt

Image URL: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/oct/18/arsenic-contamination-poisoning-bangladesh-solutions When the first version of poison conspiracy was released on the unsuspecting innocent Vaishnava community, in 1998 it claimed that arsenic was the deadly agent his disciples used to murder him.  The insisted that the evidence for this was that when tested, Srila Prabhupada’s hair indicated that it had abnormally high levels

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