“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 the term “poison” in conversations during his last year; why the so-called “whisper tapes” depend on discredited audio technologies; and why cadmium, which later replaced arsenic by proponents of the theory as the alleged means of poisoning, would be unlikely, if not inconceivable, as a poisoning agent in 1977. ” -ISKCON Communications, April 25, 2025 See Page Two [1]
[1] https://iskconnews.org/statement-regarding-unfounded-poison-allegations/