SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM
Slightly revised and edited version of Dr. Leo Rebello's speech
delivered on December 9, 2004 at Goregaon, Bombay, during the
Awards function of the Science Exhibition of K/P Ward
(Bandra to Goregaon) Schools in Bombay.



The audience consisted of 1518 participating students, 230 teachers,
parents, officials, TV actress Nikki Aneja Walia and mediamen.



Dear Students, Parents, Teachers and Guests:
I have been asked to give comments on behalf of the 35 Judges and I consider this as
an opportunity to guide the students, teachers and their parents in the right direction.

Earlier the Science Exhibition used to be a show put up by rich schools. Hence, I never
accepted the invitation to be a judge. This year I accepted it because for the first time
Municipal schools are participating along with elite schools. These poor students struggle
against heavy odds to succeed in life. Through these exhibitions the scientific attitude will
now percolate at the grassroots helping our nation to develop further.

My observations as a Judge
Science devoid of Humanism is 'faceless science', like Modern Medicine is 'pseudo science'.
Science without discretion and discernment becomes decadent. Scientists should also be poets
at heart because like the Marathi saying goes – Je na dekhe Ravi, te dekhe Kavi. That which
the Sun cannot see, the Poet sees. That means we need to look at the whole rather than a part.

Science should be safe. If scientists lose their conscience and conspire with criminals,
soon we will have Humanzee (a chimpanzee with human brain) amongst us, due to
experiments called Chimeras. A Humanzee may be able to speak and dress like a human being,
but will jump on the trees if he sees a female mate and be used like a slave by injecting them
with hypnotics and programming them to kill people as army recruits. Therefore science devoid
of spiritualism becomes a tool for downfall rather than evolution.

Youth and teachers are expected to be intelligent and alert, not postmen of mediocrity.
To have a scientific attitude is to have an open mind. Not rote learning. Another qualification of
a true scientist is honesty borne out of conviction.

Frankly, I was sorely disappointed by many exhibits, devoid of creativity, window-dressed as
it would seem to win the prizes rather than apply the mind. It was routine. There was no originality.
No new ideas. To the best part of our ignorance that we arrange and classify, we give the name
"Knowledge". What the budding scientists have to understand is that science is not uni-dimensional.
Everything has got minimum two sides.

For example in the AIDS section we had 39 entries. But all saying the same thing without
even verifying whether what they were presenting was fact or fiction.
To say that HIV causes AIDS and you will die unless you take ARVs or use condoms, is
repeating like a parrot who has been trained to say "Good night" when it is "Good morning".
Polly cannot use his brain, and he has limited vocabulary. Every scientist must remember
and ask six questions: who, what, when, where, why and how? Unless you ask these six
questions you will not learn anything let alone be a scientist.

Incidentally, remember that AIDS is not caused by HIV but by drugs. Elisa, Western Blot or
CD4 count tests are all positively programmed and condom only protects 60% of the organ.
Remember that AIDS is a racket. Do not join the bandwagon and be led blindly to accept
the lies.

I recently read in the newspapers that the Health Minister of Karnataka has mooted the idea
of distributing condoms through school students. This I call condomised education, which will lead
to condom ethics, condom morals, condom culture, condom history and condomed civilisation.
If this madness goes on there may come a time, when mothers will tell their daughters to bring a box
of condoms, "some for you, some for me", like some irresponsible fathers send their sons
to buy cigarettes or beer or liquor and have parties in the presence of their growing children.

As a physician with 25 years of clinical, teaching and research experience, let me tell you that 95%
of diseases are caused and cured by diet. Many dishes, many diseases.

For next year’s exhibition, I throw up some ideas:
1.. Is Refrigerated food safe? Or is it akin to eating from the garbage bin?
2.. Are microwaves death machines?
3.. Do cell phones cook up the brain?
4.. Do the vaccines we give to tiny tots mutate human bodies creating more deadly diseases?
One of the hypotheses is that AIDS is due to overuse of vaccines and deadly drugs.
Infact that is the only known cause of AIDS according to me.
5.. Why are veggie vaccines, urine vaccines, homoeopathic vaccines not tried?
6.. Can food be processed from garbage?
7.. Can phytoplankton or algae in the sea be used to purify the air quality.
8.. Internet is the greatest revolution and resource of our times. Use it wisely, because
information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
9.. Also remember NOT to use plastic, thermocol, corrosive chemicals in your
science exhibition next year.

Everything in the Science Exhibition should be Eco and Environment friendly, and safety of our
students should be uppermost in our minds. Economy and less garbage from these
science exhibitions, and creating a science museum of some of the award winning exhibits is
another suggestion that I would like give you.

All the best. Jai Bharat, Jai Jagat.


Dr. Leo Rebello
World Peace Envoy
28/552 Samata Nagar
Kandivali East
Mumbai 400101
Tel. 28872741
Email :  leorebello@vsnl.com
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