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\nScientists in the Indian Science Congress made some embarrassing claims thatPythagoras’s Theorem was invented in India, not Greece, Inter-planetary planes in Vedic age, Cows can turn their food into 24-carat gold, Helmet from Mahabharata days on Mars, Autopsy by leaving the dead body in water. This is refuted in http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/5-howlers-from-the-indian-science-congress\/1\/411468.html<\/a>
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\nAnother person made a claim by quoting Vyaminka Shastra that aeroplanes existed in India 7,000 years ago but he was unaware of the fact that this claim was refuted 40 years ago,
\nhttp:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/vyamanika-shastra-is-a-big-fat-hoax-claims-of-aviation-in-ancient-india-debunked-40-years-ago-2031939.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-others\/science-meet-didnt-hear-40-years-ago-iisc-debunked-flying-claims\/99\/<\/a>
\nIAS officer claims that blowing conch shell can turn white hairs into black and exercises rectal muscles.
\nhttp:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/IAS-officer-blew-conch-at-science-meet\/articleshow\/50476426.cms<\/a>
\nNobel laureate V Ramakrishnan calls Indian Science Congress a circus.
\nhttp:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/indian-science-congress-is-a-circus-wont-attend-it-nobel-laureate-v-ramakrishnan-2572268.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Scientists in the Indian Science Congress made some embarrassing claims thatPythagoras’s Theorem was invented in India, not Greece, Inter-planetary planes in Vedic age, Cows can turn their food into 24-carat gold, Helmet from Mahabharata days on Mars, Autopsy by leaving the dead body in water. 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