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Dr. G. Venkataraman
writes in Part 4 of his 7-part series entitled “In Quest of Infinity”
on his Radio Sai website “You know, when I think about it all, I am
simply wonder struck. On one side of it is God who has created the Universe
in which all these wonderful things happen. On the other side, there
He is in human form in Parthi, going about as if He is not aware of any of the
mysteries in the Universe” See here
Dr. G. Venkataraman
reviews at length developments in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos…
though nothing scientific that is not found in hundreds of books and
other media. Venkataraman was a physicist working for the Indian government’s
nuclear programme. However, he has copied his information on astronomy
from other scientific authorities. Yet he does not once attribute anything
he reports to its originators or to other scientific sources! He has
even plagiarised text from the Dennis Dutton website, without any mention.
Outright plagiarism:
Both text and an image ‘lifted’ from
http://denisdutton.com/einstein_eddington.htm by Prof.
G. Venkataraman, who also took the following images, all without
acknowledgement:-
‘The Big Bang’
image from
science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/bang.html
‘An Expanding Universe’
from http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-SNAP-dark-energy.html
‘The Periodic Table
of Elements’ is from
http://www.Scientificpsychic.com/health/ chemistry.html (on which he has even
imposed the logo of Radio.Sai!
‘The Chandra Telescope’
images come from
http://starbulletin.com/2000/01/14/news/story1.html
and from
http://whyfiles.org/223orbital_astro/images/chandradiag.jpg
The images of white
dwarfs are falsely sub-titled “www.radio sai” but they are taken
from
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/science/hubble_m4wd.jpg
He uses copyright
images from the Anglo-Australian Observatory at
http://astro.ic.ac.uk/Research/Stellar/images/aat050.jpg
This failure
to cite any references in articles on science or academic subjects is
regarded as dilettantism by scientists and scholars. The innocent and
uneducated may well believe that Venkataraman discovered such things
himself, when he is simply promoting himself as if he were an authoritative
researcher. This marks him out as bogus. In addition to this absence
of basic scholarly standards, he has a pretentious main agenda. He presumes
to inform us of 1) The Cosmic origin of man. 2) Man’s Cosmic
connections. 3) Man’s Cosmic responsibilities, and 4) Man’s Cosmic
Destiny, no less!
These
(contra-feminist) titles alone reveal that he is setting himself up
as some kind of ‘spiritual mouthpiece’, misusing science as a mere
tool in an attempt to inculcate religious belief - preferably faith
in his Lord and Master, Sathya Sai Baba, as the Incarnation of God Almighty
in this Age.
Venkataraman
posts his various lessons and lectures on the website he directs, and
he receives no peer comment, let alone criticism, from within the Sai
Baba movement, and such is not permitted at all! At the Sathya Sai educational
institutions - where servile respect for elders and what they teach
is an unbroken rule, no teacher or student would ever are to put a critical
question to Sai-luminaries. Protected from any critical debate
and intellectual inquiry in the passive circle of co-admirers of Sathya
Sai Baba, Venkataraman is able - with his Lord and Master holding the
chain behind him - figuratively to bark down anyone in his vicinity
who might dare to question his undigested and highly doubtful views.
However, the wider world of genuine research and discussion - where
excellence arises from rigorous peer review and disputation - will not
be impressed in the least.
Dr. Venkataraman
writes - as if he knows directly and authoritatively - of God and his
existence etc. (actually - he really thinks he knows God personally
as Sathya Sai Baba!) All the signs of pseudo-philosophy on a wholly
belief-driven agenda are there, for he only parrots Sathya Sai Baba’s
beliefs and propaganda without any critical thought whatever, even when
they are wholly preposterous and in conflict with the most established
scientific and historical fact (see here).
Evidently,
far too much now depends on it for him, evidently - prestige and pelf,
employment and perks. Sai Baba is his God and patron, and Venkataraman
is his beneficiary (having received from Sai Baba an expensive new Japanese
car paid for by funds donated by well-meaning followers who thought
the money would go to raise the poor instead! (such as myself, alas,
having once contributed enough to buy a number of cars). Venkataraman
did not refuse to accept the brand new Japanese vehicle as a personal
gift from his Lord (who says he has no money or property anyhow) and
so becomes yet more of a consumer than before… one who
immorally accepts what amounts to a bribe for allegiance paid for by
money donated for the good of the poor, unhealthy and uneducated! Under
Sathya Sai Baba’s direction, he willingly compromised himself. [Four
other Sai-VIP’s accepted identical free cars].
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