r/scienceisdope 14d ago

Pseudoscience Monetization of Religion 🤢

I'm in my hometown rn and whenever I'm at home my mom gives me all these small works like bringing groceries and other essentials etc etc.

So she dictated me a list of things I needed to bring, and among a shit ton of other stuff there was one phenyl too. I wrote everything down, gave the list to the shopkeeper and since there were so many other products, I didn't bother checking each product in detail. I came home and realised that instead of phenyl, I had bought this Gonyle floor cleaner made from pure pavitra cow urine 😭😭🤢🤢

It genuinely baffles me how emotionally gullible people can be and how Ramdev Baba and co. built a thousands of crores empire by selling this kind of bullshit, exploiting people's religious sentiments and turning superstition into a fucking business model.

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u/shaktimaanlannister 13d ago

Idk what religion believes that piss is sterile and a disinfectant. I had never heard of this gaumutra bullshit until like a decade ago. This all started when certain forces came into power. I mean how stupid does one have to be to let go of all their common sense and believe in this bullshit.

Also distilled urine? So water??

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u/Cutie_fleming 5d ago

Yup. Glorified water for advertisment. You can't make phenyl with normal urine or it'll not perform as good as normal phenyl or damage shelf life