On May 11, a disturbing video of Baba Ramdev, a yoga exponent and a purveyor of ayurvedic medicine, who is widely seen as close to the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, surfaced. In this video, Ramdev made light of the dire situation in India’s hospitals over the previous month as they struggled to cope with the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Worse still, in the same video, he explicitly questioned the value of allopathic (or science-based) medicine, referring to it as “stupid science.”
