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you're aware that Nepal has rejected many of their products ? The current government of India is in bed with Ramdev so there won't be any bans. it's very easy to give "organic flavors" and I can't believe educated people would fall for their traps.

Source: https://www.firstpost.com/india/nepal-drug-administration-re...

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'Educated' people once believed the earth was flat. We all know how that worked out.

Nepal has rejected Ayurveda products manufactured by one company because of contaminants. How is that a statement on the efficacy of Ayurveda ? There has been contamination found in batches of Coke/Pepsi bottles also in India - none of it is a statement on the efficacy of the underlying product.

> 'Educated' people once believed the earth was flat.

This is a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

Belief in a flat earth being a myth is, as your own link says, specifically about Europe in the Medieval era. No one denies that people considered the learned ones in their community at other times and places believed in a flat earth.

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