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| | Dr. Kanwaljeet (Sunny) Anand Fails Science Test
By Barry Pittard 17/01/2006 At 09:27 Top US birth scientist, in favour with those around George Bush, Dr. Kanwaljeet (Sunny) Anand, advances controversial theories about the life of the human fetus. However, he accepts Sathya Sai Baba - who has stated contradictory accounts of foetal animation status - as all-knowing. Dr. Kanwaljeet (Sunny) Anand, is a top United States pediatrician, a very influential advisor on childbirth issues to the Bush administration. He is Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences UAMS College of Medicine; Board of Directors, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Sunny Anand is also a high-profile follower of India's richest and most infamous guru, the profoundly discredited Sathya Sai Baba, who faces worldwide allegations of serial sexual molestation of boys and young men, and other crimes, such as implication in police killings in his bedroom on June 6, 1993, about which prominent Indians like former Home Secretary of Andhra Pradesh (Sai Baba's state), V.P.B. Nair, have publicly voiced concerns at a vast cover-up by Sai Baba’s ashram and local, state and central governments in India. Unfortunately, so great is Sai Baba's impact on successive power brokers of all major political parties in India and on the judiciary – thousands of whom fall down at his feet in public – no court cases or genuine police investigations have succeeded. In April 2004, the BBC - though too late for inclusion in its television documentary ‘The Secret Swami’ (2004) - was able to expose the leadership of UNESCO (Paris) for yielding to Indian government pressure to delete their Media Advisory adverse to Sai Baba and some of his organizers. See my article, ‘Does UNESCO Really Protect the Young? The Case of the Missing Media Advisory’: www.saiguru.net/english/articles/124does_unesco_really_protect_the_y.htm . In the meantime, the US State Department has confirmed to the BBC that Sai Baba is the subject of its concerned investigations into the serious allegations of many US citizens: home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/commentsonsecretswami2.html Hundreds of scientists from around the world - if not thousands - have got enmeshed with Sai Baba or his cult. It is time to get some accountability and to expose such obscurantism. Some of these followers are immensely influential in the world of science, government, education and so on but cannot, with any honesty, reconcile their rationality with the discredited actions and absurdly unscientific statements of Sathya Sai Baba. The refusal to heed the voices of respected former devotees and their families and others around the world that Sai Baba has betrayed the trust of boys and young men, and a great many others, is ethically, morally, legally and scientifically reprehensible. There is an international petition at:  http://www.saipetition.net// Last November, Dr. Sunny Anand was a featured speaker at Sai Baba's eightieth birthday celebrations celebrated in his vast ashram in Puttaparthi, South India. Dr. Anand's claims that Sai Baba is God fully manifest, are found at an official Sai Baba website: www.srisathyasaipublications.org/anand.htm . Whatever may be Sunny Anand's views on fetal development (and they are far from controversy-free among birth scientists), here is a brief example of his incredibly inaccurate and mythologizing talk as a featured speaker at Sathya Sai Baba's eightieth birth day: "The Advent of this Divine Form is referenced in the Book of Revelations of the Bible, in the Holy Koran, in the Vedas and Jaimini Mahabharatha, in the Guru Granth Sahib, and in all of the major religious texts of the world." You may view scans at: home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/shortnews/foetus.html of two brief extracts, run side by side, of entirely conflicting statements on the topic of fetal animation by Anand's omniscient and omnipotent God, Sai Baba, from two editions of the guru's official magazine, Sanathana Sarathi - of a) September 1996 and b) April 1997. For more detail, there is an account by the Australian scholar Brian Steel: bdsteel.tripod.com/More/80bdayanand.htm . Here, Brian Steel writes of his polite attempt to verify from Dr. Sunny Anand whether it was he who spoke at Sai Baba's 80th birthday. Sunny Anand wrote back to say that any further email from Brian Steel would end up in the trash bin. Apart from refuting various myths generated by Sai Baba and his international propaganda machine, Steel quotes this from Sathya Sai Baba, which just about refutes itself: "What is the origin of man? At the beginning there is garbha (space). In this garbha (womb or space) human life originates and has the form of a bubble on the seventh day. On the 15th day it takes the form of the embryo. On the 30th day it becomes fetus. On the 60th day, the head starts taking shape. On the 210th day, the fetus quickens with life. On the 240th day, the full body is formed. On the 270th day the child comes out into the world. The Vedha declared that space and Time are essential factors in human birth." (Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 30, Chapter 6, p.46, and in Sanathana Sarathi, April 1997, p. 86. The quotation comes from a public discourse on 7 March 1997. Dr Sunny Anand lives in Little Rock, where the Mayor Jim Dailey recently proclaimed a Sathya Sai Baba Day. Shortly before, Mayor Slay of Saint Louis did the same. The worldwide and powerful Sai Baba cult works relentlessly to insinuate itself into religious and political mainstreams and then triumphantly features famous 'catches' such as Dr. Anand. In their recruiting efforts, the Sathya Sai Organization shows costly Sai Baba propaganda films and hires luxurious venues such as a Hilton Ballroom, the Cooper Union, La Mirada Theatre, Sydney Superdome, and Melbourne Town Hall: home.hetnet.nl/~ex_baba/engels/articles/superdome.html . Their presentations typically withhold from the public that they regard Sathya Sai Baba as God fully incarnate (the 'Avatar' of all the ages) who has come to save the entire world before his self-prophesied death in AD 2022. They do not reveal that some of his flashy 'miracles' have been exposed as fakes (see video footage at: home.hetnet.nl/~comments_on/_the_secret_swami/_sai_baba2.htm ). They side-step the devastating exposure of Sai Baba and some of his leaders in the BBC's 'The Secret Swami' (2004), and the Danish national broadcaster DR’s searing documentary 'Seduced' (2002). Nor do they remind us of Sai Baba's embarrassing history of absurd statements about science and history, his unfulfilled prophecies - home.no.net/abacusa/SaiBaba.htm - or the opulent splendor in which he lives, e.g., mounted on a huge golden throne. His prodigious wealth is sustained by vast Indian and foreign donations. See Rediff News, July 06, 2005, www.rediff.com/money/2005/jul/06spec2.htm ), which reports “The Andhra Pradesh-based Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust is the largest recipient of foreign contributions”. This figure does not account for contributions from those foreigners who donate when they are in India. His organization cannot reconcile their promotions with Sai Baba's statements that he does not need to promote himself or his work. On his forty-third birthday, he proclaimed, "Avatars need no advertisement." www.sathyasai.org/discour/1968/d681123.htm Trustfully, forces for reason and justice in the US and beyond will be interested in knowing more about Dr. Sunny Anand's umbilical tie to one frequently called among his millions of devotees 'the Doctor of all Doctors'. Activists of Arkansas, US and beyond, please do share this information with your contacts e.g., media, scientists, doctors, researchers, social justice groups, senators/congressmen/, etc. You may kindly send me useful contacts. From the richly varied backgrounds of many former devotees, I can coordinate highly-qualified professionals, including our legal, medical, academic, sexual abuse professionals, etc., to brief authorities who are concerned at how insidiously such a major cult can penetrate - concealing all the while its real agendas - mainstream social, political and religious structures, Barry Pittard bpittard (at) optusnet.com.au  Email:: bpittard@optusnet.com.au
 URL:: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/belowframe.html
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It is indeed lamentable that those opposing Sathya Sai Baba (SSB), like Barry Pittard, Robert Priddy and Brian Steel, feel compelled to attack devotees of the Indian Guru. These Critics & Skeptics raise a huge cry and gnash their teeth when their character flaws and deceit are publicly exposed. Whenever the focus is shifted to the lies and dishonesty of these Anti-Sai Activists, they begin to whine about "ad hominem" attacks and repeatedly say the Sai Controversy is not about them and their character. Then they turn around and start waging unremitting "ad hominem" attacks against Sai Devotees, utilizing group thuggery tactics. REFERENCES: Barry Pittard: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/A-Pittard/barry-pittard-deception.html Robert Priddy: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/A-Priddy/robert-priddy-deception.html Brian Steel: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/brian_steel.html ---------------------------------------------- What is ironic about these attacks is that Barry Pittard has blatantly lied and misrepresented the facts about Sathya Sai Baba. This is fully discussed on my page about him, entitled "Lies & Anti-Sais: Making The Case Against Barry Pittard". Barry Pittard keeps trying to present himself as being a "serious" and "honest" individual. He is neither. He is one way in public and very different in private. This is not the first time that Barry Pittard has sought to smear the good name of Sai Devotees. He also attempted to smear the good name of Rabbi David Zeller, simply because he spoke at Sai Interfaith Conferences at Prashanti Nilayam. This points to the low and vindictive spirit of Mr. Pittard, whose hate campaign extends beyond Sathya Sai Baba and the Sai Organization and targets high profile devotees or notable individuals holding a favorable view on the Indian Guru. REFERENCES: Making The Case Against Barry Pittard: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/A-Pittard/making-the-case.html Attacks Against Rabbi Zeller: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/A-Pittard/anti-semitism.html#barry_chamish ---------------------------------------------- Let me sum up the facts about the real "evidence" against Sathya Sai Baba: Anti-Sai allegations are made despite NO court cases ever being filed, first-hand, in a court of law in India. As a matter of fact, not even one alleged victim has even tried. Not even one alleged victim has utilized free, "world class legal resources" to bring Sathya Sai Baba to justice. Not even one single affidavit has ever been made public (despite numerous claims to "20", "scores" and "over a hundred" affidavits being in existence and allegedly published on the internet). The online petition (against SSB and Sai Org.) has never been independently verified. "Evidence" is cited from mostly anonymous sources or people using a first name or a pseudonym. Anti-Sais have slandered Sathya Sai Baba in the most vile way, yet whenever anyone questions them and their character, all of a sudden they are beyond reproach. No documents. No affidavits. No court cases. No first-hand complaints filed in India. No independent agencies verifying their alleged data. No nothing! Despite these facts, Anti-Sai Activists have the audacity to attack those who question their viewpoints and unsubstantiated claims. One must also remember that all of these allegations are many years old. Anti-Sai Activists wage an unremitting smear campaign that accuses SSB of "serial pedophilia" and the sexual abuse of "boys" and "children". These comments are fallacious, unsubstantiated and wholly misleading. Pedophilia is the sexual abuse or exploitation of a boy, girl or child 12 years of age or younger. There are NO testimonies from boys, children or parents of children that support the erroneous claim that Sathya Sai Baba is a pedophile/paedophile who engaged in sexual interactions with children. As a matter of fact, the youngest, non-anonymous testimony came from a 16 years old teenager (Jed Geyerhahn) who claimed he received a NON-sexual oiling. All of the other alleged victims were 18 years of age or older (some as old as 31). This once again goes to show how those inimical towards Sathya Sai Baba resort to cheap propaganda and blatant disinformation because the truth simply does not argue in their favor. REFERENCE: Alleged Victims: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/Witnesses/exbaba-witnesses.html ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Anand is a well respected and reputable doctor. Since it serves the Anti-Sai Crusade to smear notable and respected devotees of SSB, they are attempting to undermine his credentials with ad hominem attacks. Dr. Anand has the following credentials: Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences UAMS College of Medicine; Board of Directors, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute; MEDICAL SCHOOL: M.B.B.S., Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, University of Indore, Indore, India; PHD: D.Phil., Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK; F.A.A.P. (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics), American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village IL; RESIDENCY: Research Fellow, University Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.; Research Fellow in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; FELLOWSHIP: Clinical Fellow, Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; POST DOCTORAL TRAINING: Intern, Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, Indore, India; Intern, Hindu Rao; BOARD CERTIFICATION: 1981, Registered Medical Practitioner, Madhya Pradesh Board, Bhopal, India; 1991, Board Certification in Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics; 1994, Board Certification in Pediatric Critical Care, American Board of Pediatrics; 1997, Arkansas State Medical Board, Little Rock, Arkansas, FCCM (Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine), FRCPCH (Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - UK); OTHER: Listed, in 2001, in Castle Connolly Medical's America's Top Doctors (which is a guide published to identify the top 1 percent of medical specialists in the nation). SaiSathyaSai.com exposes the underbelly of the Anti-Sai Movement for what it is: A dishonest and deceitful hate-group that wages an unremitting smear campaign against Sathya Sai Baba because they have failed to make any leeway against him in a Court of Law. This highly suggests that the "evidence" against SSB is inadequate or non-existent. REFERENCES: SaiSathyaSai: http://www.saisathyasai.com/ Critics & Skeptics of Sathya Sai Baba: http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/ex-devotees-critics-skeptics.html
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After three years and thousands of hours of research into the issues, I have come to the conclusion that the allegations against Sai Baba are more than highly suspicious to say the very least. None of the accusers have ever even tried to file charges in India as required by law. Instead they have played judge, jury and sentencer over the internet. They have contradicted themselves and changed their stories and have absolutely no corroborating witnesses or evidence. They have lied about signing legal affidavits which were notarized. It appears they have lied about Hari Sampath's supposed trip to the Supreme Court of India on May 8, 2001, which is not listed anywhere on the Supreme Court website.
Almost all accusers were grown men (foreigners) whom it appears the anti-Sai group used to try and create the illusion were "children" who had been sexually abused when, in fact suspiciously, they were adults-some as old as 30 years! Almost all cases are now past the eight year Indian statute of limitations. Most of those pushing the allegations have hidden agendas such as being evangelical Christians, Catholics, anti-Semites and/or white supremacists or atheists! There are even wanted criminals in the group of detractors, including an evangelical Christian who runs a website from the Netherlands and is wanted in California for failing to register as a sex offender after spending six months in prison! If anyone should be investigated, it should be the hate group stalking Sathya Sai Baba!
And HOW many times will it have to be explained to the democratically, ethically and mentally challenged anti-Sai group that NO investigation is launched into any crime in ANY country UNLESS there is an actual victim, willing to take legal responsibility, who FILES FORMAL charges in the COUNTRY where the crime was committed? For some strange reason Robert Priddy, et al, seem to have great difficulty understanding this VERY simple concept of the presumption of innnocence but would rather continue to demonize the Indian government in their blatant and extremely deceptive propaganda campaign. Saisathyasai.com has done an excellent job documenting this deception.
The simple FACT is that not ONE of the alleged victims has filed charges in India. Not one of them EVEN tried to file charges! This nonaction is VERY suspicious in itself. But you cannot get the anti-Sais to understand this because they live in a fantasy world where they think they can make up the rules as they go.
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