“Moreover, Mayesvara Dasa, a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada,has authored a comprehensive book rebutting the poison conspiracy. The book’s title is DECEPTION (2019), and a key argument in his work is the historical improbability of the claim, noting that in the 1970s, cadmium—a heavy metal allegedly used—was not known at the time to have been
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“In addition to the GBC-commissioned studies, Mayesvara Dasa, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada spent five years investigating the allegations, resulting in his book DECEPTION (2020). This study surveys all the available information and provides compelling alternate explanations for the ‘evidence’ cited by the proponents of the poison theory. Mayesvara’s study explains how Srila Prabhupada used
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Science Digest openly admitted in 2009 that there was still a lot of uncertainty about how cadmium affected the body. Are we to believe that the ISKCON leaders, who are criticized by those who promote this rumor as dishonest, lazy and incompetent, knew more about this heavy metal then highly trained chemists did 30 years
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Here we have a statement from the research scientists at the Johns Hopkins University published in 2014 where they clearly admit they didn’t know much about how cadmium affected the body. How do those who claim cadmium was used to poison Srila Prabhupada explain how isolated monks could do that? Here the experts admit they
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