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NB: Please keep lett .. more Letters to the Editor “sis*= Letters to the Editor more appear in your "Death by | the data we had collected to | (1978-79) at his college in | Allegations against Sathya Sai Doctoring" article parts | & 2 | every member of our city council | Whitefield, via Bangalore—the | Baba mainly relate to serial sexu- [NEXUS 9/05, 9/06], but, as is so | and attended and spoke at many | first of several large boys' col- | al abuse of minors and young often the case, her "specialist" | of their meetings as well as held | leges which Sai Baba founded. I | men, but some relate to Sai caused so much fear in her that | numerous informational meetings | now assist with exposure activi- | Baba's complicity in police exe- she didn't look into anything out- | city-wide. The bottom line is | ties. cutions in his private apartments side "accepted" medicine. And | that our city council voted not to | Sai Baba's devotees are legion | at Puttaparthi in 1993. so goes the battle. do it! A victory that is almost | in all the top Indian power struc- Coming from many countries What really raises my ire is that | unprecedented in this day and | tures. Witlessly, they and mil- | and educational backgrounds, we the doctors have my whole | age! lions of Indians sink at his feet, | pave exposed Sai Baba and his family convinced that they gave | I have not had the chance to | declaring him a national trea- accomplices in major venues. her four "good" years that she | "browse" your website yet, but | | sure—the greatest divine incarna- | We have precipitated well- would otherwise not have had: | would hope to find similar arti- | tion ever—and believe him when | researched articles in the press of four years without hair, of | cles on amalgam teeth fillings, he says that he will save the countries such as Australia doubling over _ retching | aspartame as a sweetener, more | entire world, with India leading | Canada. Denmark Chile. uncontrollably after every chemo | info on fluoridation, how the | the rest of us. A powerful incen- Germany Holland, India USA. session, of being so weak most of | homogenisation process of milk | tive to belief are the ostensible UK and Sweden , ° ° the time that all she could do was changes it into a very unhealthy miracles. ° lie in bed—and on and on, ad| substance, and anything else | We continue to expose nauseam! dealing with present-day medical | fraudulence, but not all the I would like to think that many | procedures and food processing | phenomena—whether related to of the specialists who pander to | that is contrary to our health and | him personally or to worldwide these procedures actually think | well- being. manifestations in countless they are doing the best thing for | | would appreciate it if you homes of devotees, etc.—submit the patient. These doctors read | would point me in the proper | to rational explanation. their journals and take what is | direction to find this information. | A common response to the Early last year, the Danish Broadcasting Company aired a 50-minute documentary on the Sai Baba exposé, titled Seduced. Promptly, the municipal authori- ties rescinded the sale to Sai Baba devotees of the famous Arres¢dal castle in Copenhagen, written as the gospel truth and all | Thank you! three NEXUS article testimonies | Which was to have been used as a that is printed therein as the latest | Bi]] Alexander, Washington, | Was that they had the "ring of Sai international school. in medical science. With this in | ysA_ pillmar6@attbi.com * | truth". One of the authors was | However, the Indian power mind, they blindly administer the [First up, all readers have my Dr Terry Gallagher, a scientist structure constantly obstructs our protocol as it is spelled out. permission and encouragement and formerly a highly respected efforts, including the media— leader of the Australian Sai | with the honourable exceptions Organisation. Long before the | of India Today and the unique NEXUS article came out, his | and brave Ramana Murthy, efforts to investigate properly the | Editor of Vijayavihaaram. allegations of sexual molestation | Indian Prime Minister A. B. who would be even remotely | spo5¢ subjects you mentioned, had been heavily suppressed by | Vajpayee and three high-profile interested in the material. just visit our website. We have T. Ramanathan, the head of the | co-signatories of a public letter I feel that the only way we are free articles on all those issues Sathya Sai Organisation of | say that our contentions are I intend to make copies of the "Death by Doctoring" article and deliver them by hand and "snail mail" to everyone I can think of, both in the medical field and out, to share, reproduce and copy our articles as far and as wide as they wish, as long as there is no charge to the recipient. And Bill, as for a pointer to articles on going to bring about a change in | “Gnd more. Ed.] Australia and Papua New | "wild, reckless and concocted our existing medical procedures Guinea. Dr Gallagher resigned | allegations made by certain vest- and break the stranglehold that . . on the basis of high principle—as | ed interests and people against the pharmaceutical companies Sai Baba Allegations Grow have many others since, the | Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba". have over it all is to inform the | Duncan: In exposing sexual | world over. After hearing of our allegations public until they cause such an abuse of male youths by Sathya | Another highly respected | and aving them investigated, the uproar that something has to be | Sai Baba, India's most famous leader, Stephen Carthew, a docu- | Vice-Chancellor of the done. Does this meet with your | guru, the NEXUS article in 1999 mentary filmmaker, submitted University of Adelaide, South approval? on the accusations were tremen- | shortly after the NEXUS article | Australia. withdrew permission I was brought face to face with | dously seminal [see 7/05]. The | was published that the allegations | for the University to be used as a a medical situation a few years | three testimonies presented | be discussed by the rank and file. | venue for the Sai National ago when our city was about to | alleged serial sexual molestations | Summarily, Ramanathan, a Conference that was scheduled implement a program to fluori- | Of young males from different | retired lawyer and former for April 18-25 2003 : date our water supply. A small | countries, as well as other crimes. | President of the Sri Lanka Law , ~ group of us began digging into NEXUS tested many Sai | Society, cast him out. this issue and found out that it | Baba—related sources | Worldwide, courageous and consisted of nothing more than | independent of our own. Your | truthful individuals received the the dumping of the toxic waste | confirmation of the integrity of | same draconian treatment. by-products of the aluminium, | the evidence, and publishing of | Hundreds of people have come steel and fertiliser industries' | the article, certainly assisted our | forward with more information. I é processes into virtually every | extensive and worldwide | These include former devotees | # the following websites: There is a growing network around the planet of people calling for a properly constituted official enquiry and action by governments around the world. More information can be found water supply in the country and | investigations and campaign. from many countries, some of | * http://www.exbaba.com getting them to pay for it in the Devoted to Sai Baba for 25 | whom have spent over two * http://www.saiguru.net process. years, I spent a few years around | decades closely involved in Sai | Barry Pittard, Qld, Australia, We gave packets containing all | him and taught English literature | Baba's work. bpittard @ beachaccess.com.au JUNE — JULY 2003 NEXUS +5 www.nexusmagazine.com