Dr. V. V. Pillay is currently the Chief of Poison Control Centre & Clinical Forensic Unit, Professor & Head of Forensic Medicine and Medical Toxicology in Amrita School of Medicine (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Cochin. The Poison Control Centre is listed in the Yellowtox Directory of the WHO website. The Analytical Toxicology Laboratory attached to the […]
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0:01…with some heavy metal or the other. So to make that the causal actor in somebody’s ailment or death, we need to be very careful. Because the mere presence of a heavy metal even if it is unexpected concentrations we need to be very sure that there is not some other factor that has come
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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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5:36 That is one aspect I am not very sure about, to be honest, and again animal experimentation, you know, sometimes we got problems, when you try and bring it to human beings, so since that has not been shown to happen in human beings, I would say that let us leave that aside, possible…
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5:48 He died at the age of 81, before that he had medical problems, diabetes blood pressure, cardiac problems and kidney problems at a later age. So this can be considered from the medical point of view as part of the normal aging process, aging of the body organs. 6:15 If suppose cadmium was used
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…are too numerous to enumerate. 0:04 In your book you also mentioned that consumption of acid food juices eroding cadmium plated metals and pots and pans with cadmium plating can also cause poisoning in people. In 1970’s peoples did not have so much awareness of cadmium, could this also be a reason for exposure at
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6:00 in previous century where the contamination of some water body occurs because of cadmium and the local population use that water for patty fields and they started developing a lot of problems like bone pain especially, It came to be known as the iti, iti disease, or the Ouch Ouch disease. Over a period
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0.01 Based on the hair samples we are seeing…constituting proof if deliberate homicidal intent. Over and above there are forensic specialists whose expert opinion they have taken, and they also said such high levels of cadmium in the hair.. that the person may die within two days, this is clearly a case of manage hair
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7:00 he is a very good analysist, but I don’t think he has got a medical background to interpret what he has found in biological samples like hair. I think the proper thing, even if you wanted to do NAA for a heavy metal analysis… the interpretation of the report should not have been done
2:00 you could not get the ideal biological samples like what you mentioned blood or urine, even the other tissues were not accessible, therefore hair which was accessible has been done… I accept all that.. Now my questions are this. No 1. The hair sample that was done has come down I think from hand
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In the book you have written in medical toxicology where you have written foreign issue regarding cadmium and no where is chronic poisoning party stated Where as environmental heavy metal is routinely found in soil, air vegetables milk, water and even (basen?) Can the high readings of cadmium in the hair be due to environmental
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0:21 …As to why ICPMS I am sure must be very easily available in the west… like a country like the US I am sure almost every university will have it why not do it there? And if you did get something abnormal will NAA why did you not get it retested with ICPMS or
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0:35 I would like to conclude by saying that ah, what I have done here I think is just my duty. I am not here to take any sides, in fact I know that you had approached me several months ago with this case and I thought like maybe convinced when I say something I
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Was cadmium an ideal homicidal agent in the late 70’s? 0:30 I have already stated: No1: cadmium is difficult to obtain Arsinic is more easily available, but cadmium is difficult to obtain and even if somebody says it is available in nickel cadmium batteries it’s difficult to extract it unless you have knowledge of chemistry…
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5:00 So an isolated people giving an opinion, even if they are expert is not the right thing. 5:05 Not at all, There should be a board who are specialized and who can come up with a consensus. Yes, They should be talking to each other, they should be addressing all of this. That’s what
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0:21 …As to why ICPMS I am sure must be very easily available in the west… like a country like the US I am sure almost every university will have it why not do it there? And if you did get something abnormal will NAA why did you not get it retested with ICPMS or
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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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Sociologist David Platzer explains the psychological and emotional aspects driving the poison conspiracy fraud.
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