From cure in cow urine to 'superior child', pseudoscience inviting research

Pseudoscience is a set of beliefs or practices that masquerades as science to claim legitimacy

A pregnant woman should wear a specific gemstone, clothes of specific colours, offer specific flowers to the gods and recite a specific chapter from The Gita to receive the benefits of planets that influence her and the foetus in each month of pregnancy. That was the advice Shraddha Vyas had for a group of Ayurveda practitioners, or vaidyas, who sat in a building named Kunverbhai Jain Dharamshala in Jamnagar district of Gujarat.

Vyas is a lecturer at the Jamnagar-based Gujarat Ayurved University. She was one of the speakers at a five-day workshop organised by Karishma Narwani, director of Garbhvigyan Anusandhan