Yoga guru and businessman Baba Ramdev has changed his yogic pose. Weeks after scornfully declaring that allopathy calls itself a `super science’ but is actually a ‘stupid science’ and announcing that “lakhs of people have died after taking allopathic medicines,” the Baba now describes doctors as ‘god’s messengers’ and says that he himself intends to take the Covid vaccine. Earlier, Ramdev’s bizarre anti-allopathy public tirade had led to a shocked Indian Medical Association filing police and legal complaints. Justifiably so. A person of enormous influence railing against doctors and allopathic medicine in a pandemic can be dangerous. At this time, `anti-science’ babagiri should take a back seat to modern science.
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