In October 2020, the Chairperson of the National Commission on Cows, the Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA), made
headlines with bizarre claims about a cow dung chip that could supposedly block harmful radiation from mobile phones. They went a step further, saying the claims were backed by scientific proof . A group of scientists wrote an open letter to RKA at that time, asking to see proof of their claims. The letter has now received a response from the Chairperson of RKA, Dr Vallabhbhai Kathiria. The reply is so comical, it could be dissected in an oped of its own.
But let s draw our attention to another attachment that came with the RKA Chief s letter – a letter from the head of the Physics Department at Saurashtra University, Prof Mihir Joshi, who has apparently certified the so-called scientific analysis of the so-called cow dung chip. The results of this study were retrieved by