# IIT Mandi conference mixes science with pseudoscience, scholar warns 2026-08-20T04:59:28+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A mathematics professor who taught a course on the history of Indian mathematics says a growing challenge is defending Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) from pseudoscience. The scholar wrote in Scroll.in that institutions like IIT Mandi are blurring the line between genuine science and unverified claims, eroding the credibility of scientific research. The professor cited the IIT Mandi Mind, Brain and Consciousness Conference, held under the Ministry of Education's IKS division, which included sessions on reincarnation, energy chakras, and a theory of quantum emotion alongside legitimate neuroscience. Another paper on Pranic Healing claimed a 114% improvement in anger control. Earlier this year, IIT Madras hosted a keynote that used a NASA sonification as purported proof of the syllable 'Om', and IIT Roorkee announced a study on cow urine for chikungunya that is now under investigation. The scholar argues that pseudoscientific claims, unlike scientific ones, can never be refuted, and that the shortcut of trusting institutional backing no longer works when the institutions themselves fail to hold the line. ## Indian Opinion Analysis This is a deliberate misspelling of "analysis" in the key. The correct key for analysis is "analysis_paragraphs". ## Coverage - scroll.in Leads with a professor's defence of Indian Knowledge Systems against pseudoscience, citing IIT Mandi's conference that includes reincarnation and chakras alongside neuroscience, and the cow urine study at IIT Roorkee as evidence of institutional failure to maintain the science-pseudoscience boundary. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: cow urine, IIT Mandi, Indian knowledge systems, Ministry of Education, pseudoscience Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/iit-mandi-conference-mixes-science-with-pseudoscience-scholar-warns/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/iit-mandi-conference-mixes-science-with-pseudoscience-scholar-warns/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/