📣🙏 A private Ayurveda company filed a criminal defamation case against me and my co-authors for publishing the case of a child who developed severe Ayurvedic herbal injury from their products and nearly died. Today, the honorable High Court of Kerala passed the judgement to stay all proceedings against all of us, the "accused (doctors and scientists)." We doctors and authors of the study collectively paid close to INR 800,000 ($9200) in legal fees to defend our peer reviewed publication and scientific evidence. It is a small win for medical science, but there is a huge battle up ahead as multiple lawyer sources tell me that the Ayurveda industry in Kerala is preparing for a coordinated attack on me (and my coauthors) for publishing reports on harms of alternative medicine and educating the public on the same. I need the public's support on fighting the alternative medicine mafia in the near future because now, the playing field has changed. It is no longer my personal fight (it never was), but now it is the people against pseudoscience. Through my lawyers and our rationalist group, Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare (MESH), I intend to plead for crowdfunding support to carry on not just the defensive, but also take the offensive on Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Siddha, Unani and Naturopathy quacks that have been misleading, misinforming, and mistreating the public and patients. They may be an unstoppable force, but we intend to be the immovable object, to protect and shield you, from the harms of pseudoscience, with your continuous help and support. cc: @arifhussaintm @Lucythebiped @DrTonyPhilip