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Of course.The entire shtick of Patanjali is to promote Ayurvedic products and hope that people accept them in the name of tradition and their preference for “natural” products over “chemicals”.Ayurveda is protoscience from another millennium.[1] Evidence-based medicine has surpassed it due to centuries of rigorous application of the scientific method. Ayurvedic practice, instead of discarding clearly wrong foundations such as three humors and five elements and testing herbal remedies rigorously to embrace science, continues with outdated theories and unverified treatments because of lax regulation.And groups like Patanjali profit from this situation unscrupulously.They stoke peoples natural-love and chemical-fear. In this process, they stoop low enough to mischaracterize a titration reaction and trash a life-saving medicine as the scary chemical that natural cow urine bottled by Patanjali can neutralise. I have a detailed answer about this.Their proclivity to subvert the scientific method was clear again during the COVID pandemic. They kept pushing their Coronil tablets as protection and cure against COVID without any evidence. Meanwhile, they tried to get validation in the name of science by claiming peer-reviewed publications and WHO approval.All this should make it clear that Patanjali is a dangerous pseudoscience promoter. And instead of regulating such entities, the government machinery actively encourages them in India.PS: My answers against quackery and pseudoscience are aggregated here.Footnotes[1] On Ayurveda

arxiv.org publishes many papers, for free, though since they aren't peer reviewed their status as "scientific" can be dubious.plos.org also publishes free papers, and they are peer reviewed.They and others are aggregated at the Directory of Open Access Journals, http://www.doaj.org/.In general, Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) is an excellent search tool for free and non-free papers. Often, the abstracts are available for free even if the paper is not, and for people searching just "scientific" papers rather than a specific field the abstract may be all you need.

Mythological religious belief.Every religion is founded on a lot of mythological stories with different levels of significance. This is just one of those stories, and there is no evidence that it happened.But many Muslims refuse to stop at treating it as an article of faith and want to claim scientific evidence to prove that Islam is the true religion.The most hilarious attempt at hijacking scientific validity came after NASA images showing some rifts on the lunar surface came out[1]OMG evidence that the moon has been split in two!Not.This is just Rima Ariadaeus,[2] one of the many Rimae[3] (channel-like long depressions) on the lunar surface. It is only 300km long and is in no way evidence of the moon being split in two. To top it all, these features are billions of years old![4] Not going to claim that it formed from a 1400-year old miracle now, are you?But many Muslim websites kept promoting the claim and I have even had the misfortune of being at the receiving end of such a share. NASA scientist Brad Bailey had a good to-the-point response to such claims:[5]My recommendation is to not believe everything you read on the internet. Peer-reviewed papers are the only scientifically valid sources of information out there. No current scientific evidence reports that the Moon was split into two (or more) parts and then reassembled at any point in the past.Wikipedia also talks about it in the context of the religious belief.[6]There is also a lot of local folklore about people who supposedly saw the event (and converted to Islam), developed long after their lives. For example, in Kerala where I come from, the folklore is that the first Muslim convert was a king who saw the miracle.[7] But there is no historical evidence for such claims, and the many civilizations around the world who were advanced in observational astronomy made no record of such a monumental event either. Everything puts this in the realm of religious mythology.I hope that religious people everywhere would learn to keep science separate from religion. You can keep your religious beliefs and harmless practices, but please stop using pseudoscience to justify them. It only makes the entire community look ridiculous.PS: My answers against pseudoscience of Islamic and other flavours are aggregated here.Footnotes[1] File:Rima Ariadaeus-1.jpg[2] Rima Ariadaeus - Wikipedia[3] Rille - Wikipedia[4] Linear Rille[5] Evidence of the moon having been split in two[6] Splitting of the moon - Wikipedia[7] Legend of Cheraman Perumals - Wikipedia