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Do you go through moments where in movies you see the hero using too many bullets at one shot hitting nowhere and you scream inside, “idiot you don’t have a clip left, don’t waste it”
Honestly, if this was just ripping off billionaires, I wouldn’t care. But this likely going to hurt working class Indian families take out loans just so their kids can buy into a scam to look cool on Instagram. Big thanks to doctors here calling out these bogus 'temple' claims.
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The Electricity Contract is wrapped in secrecy.
All related documents must be made public!
Com. Pinarayi Vijayan
Leader of the Oppositon
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Rs 85,000 for Temple. What does an ordinary person actually get?
@deepigoyal, here are the questions a buyer would ask. I'm a doctor with 30+ years of practice, and I'd like straight answers.
1. What do I do with the numbers?
Say my BrainFlow is low today. Or my Span is 40. What exactly should I do tomorrow? Sleep more? Exercise less or more? See a doctor? I can't find a single actionable on your site, in your studies or in your "foundational research."
2. Why should I care about Span and Entropy?
Your homepage says Span shows "how well your body is doing across a wide range of systems." Medicine has no such single number. Entropy and Span are Temple's own scores. The papers you cite for them are a hypothesis paper and an 11-man cycling study. I found no study showing that tracking or improving these numbers extends healthspan or lifespan.
3. Is this a breakthrough in longevity?
Not on the evidence shown. Your studies on BrainFlow, still "in peer review," tested healthy young people in short posture and exercise tests. It's an interesting start. It isn't a proven health or lifespan tool, and your own research page says associations don't show that raising brain flow prolongs life.
4. What does the contract say?
Your terms say it's not a medical device and that Temple makes no representation about the validity, accuracy or reliability of its data. Use is at the buyer's risk. Big promise in the marketing, none in the fine print.
5. What if I'm unhappy?
You say returns are 14-day, no-questions-asked. The terms say: reason and proof required, refund may be partial after inspection, shipping and taxes non-refundable, decisions final, and legal action against "invalid" claims.
6. What else gives me heart rate and recovery?
Any decent watch does.
A BP monitor, the right blood tests and a good watch cost a fraction of this.
What actually protects the brain and extends healthy life is known for years, cheap and needs no sensor: exercise, sleep, BP and sugar control, social connection, learning new things.
Early-stage science is fine.
But please tell buyers plainly, on the product page: "This device can't tell you whether you are healthy or ill, and no study yet shows it helps you live longer or better."
Mocking doctors won't answer these questions. A clear product page will.
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
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To the people disparaging the Indian medical community, please note that we, me included, are not against technological solutions towards improved preventative care. In fact, preventative care is is the heart of medical science.
But, let us not confuse fradulently selling preventive care from selling objectively verified actionable preventive care. Deepinder, who owns Temple and has already started taking pre-orders from customers for the device has taken the name of other wearables and claimed that his process was also the due process followed before Whoop, Apple, Fitbit etc.. were also marketed. This is a BLATANT LIE.
Rob Mohr (Lead Physician on Temple) and Avi Roy (Science Lead on Temple) have both being running around with their tails on fire like rats jumping of an exploding ship on Instagram and Twitter. They have provided zero evidence to Temple device claims on their website.
Deepinder himself claims that other wearables in the market published data after release. Total nonsense.
The Apple Watch Series 11 and Fitbit Sense had the strongest pre-launch clinical evidence. Before shipping ECG tools, Apple and Fitbit passed multi-site clinical trials for FDA clearance. The Fitbit Sense 2 and Apple Watch Series 11 42mm also built on 400,000-person heart studies before launch. The Fitbit Sense 2, Fitbit Sense Black, and Fitbit Sense Lunar White/Soft Gold combine FDA-cleared ECG with cEDA sweat sensing. Similarly, the Samsung Galaxy Watch8 Classic and Samsung Galaxy Watch9 passed FDA sleep apnea trials before release. Meanwhile, the Oura Ring 4 and Whoop 4.0 launched as wellness trackers backed by peer-reviewed sleep studies. Their skin temperature sensors power FDA-cleared Natural Cycles (K202897) fertility software. Even basic models like the Apple Watch SE 3 and Apple Watch SE use validated optical heart algorithms...all of which are...
...UNLIKE Temple.
By contrast, Temple opened ₹85,000 pre-orders with zero regulatory approvals and no peer-reviewed papers. It's only backed by company's internal, not validated, non-peer reviewed, not conclusive, statistically misinterpreted preprints on 23 adults and 44 young men.
Choose the WHOOP 4.0 or Oura Ring 4 if you want screenless overnight heart rate variability and recovery tracking. Pick the Apple Watch Series 11 or Samsung Galaxy Watch8 for FDA-cleared cardiac and sleep apnea alerts. Treat Temple as an unverified wellness gadget until peer-reviewed clinical trials prove its brain flow claims. Initial studies already prove it has nothing to with the brain function. PRE-ORDERS MUST BE HALTED AS THIS IS UNETHICAL, IMMORAL.
Deepinder's science team for science is as good as Taliban's education ministry is for womens education. Temple as a device for brain flow monitroing is as useful as a bikini on the mackerel.
Deepinder is a businessman. He has already entered the realm on andhbhakts and right wing nationalist with his plastic device "that does nothing" to help boost pre-sales. I dont mind this. The device does not track brain activity and in any case and thats ok with the andbhakts supporting him and the ones abusing me under my posts.
But Deepinder taking a U-turn and calling a supposed brain function tracking device as "fitness tracker" also is a scam because it has not been proven to be a fitness tracker too. People can stick a nice looking Lego piece on their foreheads and it would still function as good as Temple does now.
Now its time for the founder to rage 😘😘😘 or better, stop shipping a junk product.
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Extreme poverty alleviation through public policy. That's the Left Alternative.
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Lie No. 1: Students were suspended because they locked up the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate members of Kalady Sanskrit University and assaulted them.
The Truth: Three students, accompanied by the police, entered the Syndicate room for discussions. They did not engage in any violence. The CCTV footage will show them entering and leaving the room. None of the Syndicate members has filed a complaint alleging that they were locked inside the room and assaulted. Moreover, the FIR registered by the police in connection with the protest held that day contains no mention of the alleged attack claimed by the Chief Minister.
Lie No. 2: The students arranged a funeral bier for the Vice-Chancellor.
The Truth: The students staged a play titled 'Light Marichu'. The performance is available on video and can be seen by everyone.
Lie No. 3: The students did not have the required attendance.
The Truth: Excluding the 60 days during which they were suspended, the students have attendance of up to 98 per cent.
Lie No. 4: Purchasing electricity through GNA is more economical.
The Truth: The agreement with GNA would result in a loss of ₹727 crore compared to purchasing electricity from Himachal Pradesh. An examination of the Rajmanikyam Report, which compares the two proposed agreements prepared by KSEB, reveals a loss of ₹461 crore.
Lie No. 5: The authority to issue liquor licences was given to Deputy Commissioners by the LDF government.
The Truth: It was the Oommen Chandy government that issued the order on 19 July 2011, authorising Deputy Commissioners to issue licences under the FL-7 category. K Babu was the Excise Minister at the time. A copy of the order was also published in the media.
Com. M V Jayarajan
State Secretariat Member
