How Do You Sleep At Night? A Response To Chandre Dharmawardana

By Grusha Andrews – AUGUST 15, 2018

“All scientific work is incomplete, and is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge”1 _ Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1965)

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Corruption and privilege are cosy bedfellows. Sexier bed fellows are corrupt privilege and hypocrisy. Shameless are those privileged, who, cocooned in civilized and safer societies advocate danger, health hazards, lack of regulations and death for ‘lesser humans’. Living in societies with abundant consumer protection where governments perceive safety of their citizenry as a natural obligation, certain devil’s advocates preach death and disease for the ‘lesser masses’ in poorer countries. Chandre Dharmawardana a specimen of a ‘scientist’ who is using scientific jargon to advocate cancer, chronic kidney disease and death to Sri Lankans is living safely in Canada. He has recently a written an article to Colombo Telegraph, distorting epidemiological theory to suit his advocacy for Glyphosate. It appears that Sri Lankan humans are lesser than lab monkeys or guinea pigs to such men of stunning scientific immorality. For them, people in Sri Lanka are but moving masses of flesh, blood, serum, cells to toxify, test, and kill. Nothing seems to haunt classless “scientists”. The Nazis who performed trials on captured Jews, the Caucasians who trialled gynaecological instruments on Negro women without anaesthesia or their consents – these are the likely ideological progenitors of men who have the immoral audacity to consistently advocate to ‘lesser humans’ what they protect themselves from in their countries of residence. 

Seriously, Colombo Telegraph, you might as well feature Nazis, rapists and paedophiles. 

Fundamental Folly Of The GMOA: Natha Deyyo

The fundamental failure of the medical profession in being sound and sincere advocates for agrochemical safety lies in the hands of the nincompoop-hood of Dr. Anurudha Padeniya and his hilarious cult of Natha Deyyo worshippers. A team of cult worshippers including Padeniya, Prof. Channa Jayasumana et al, reduced what should have been a serious and a cerebral scientific discourse in to a stupid saga of idol worshipping mumbo-jumbo playing right in to the hands of the agro chemical industry and scientific Nazis of despicable calibre. Athuraliye Rathana, the extremist Buddhist monk defecated on an already muddy unscientific pit that Padeniya et al steered the agro chemical debate in Sri Lanka through his inflammatory and disruptive discourse on the matter, insulting scientists and outshouting moderate proponents. Their fundamental reason for professing that agrochemicals had a causative effect on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown origin (CKDU) was that the ghost of Natha Deyya (the spirit of a local deity) came to them in a dream and said so. Fairy Tale Theatre, anyone? This also begs the question: what kind of decerebrated morons sit at the Ethics Review Committees of faculties of medicine which sanction research based on unverifiable joo-joo of this nature? 

By reducing a valuable scientific discourse to a cultural debate between those who demanded evidence from western knowledge and the Kattadi Gang of Padeniya et al, the GMOA backed imbeciles who were essentially the political stooges of Mahinda Rajapaska meated the mouths of the likes of Chandre Dharmawardana to ridicule the effect of agrochemicals on human health and to establish themselves as voices of moderation and reason. 

The idiocy of Padeniya, Rathana, and Jayasumana (who was a coordinating secretary of Mahinda Rajapaksa for Anuradhapura district and candidate of SLFP under Rajapaksa rule) et al does not absolve Chandre Dharmawardhana and his team of devil’s advocates from their criminality towards the human beings of Sri Lanka. 

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