India, Jan. 8 -- 2020 started with the return of pseudoscience at the 107th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru

You think the world has problems? Blame Brahma.

That's what yoga therapist HR Nagendra did. The current problems of the world are because people now look "outside themselves" rather than inwards and this is due to an error in the way Brahma created the Universe, he claimed.

It was part of the Padma Shri awardee's inaugural speech at a session on 'yoga science' on January 5, 2020 at the 107 th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru.

This of course flies right in the face of the widely accepted Big Bang Theory on how the Universe came into being, The term was coined by physicist Fred Hoyle; iconic physicist Stephen Hawking exte...