At 'Call For Media
and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba', see the article:
Posted by
Barry Pittard on May 15, 2010
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Robert Priddy, former
long-time head of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organization and retired
academic in philosophy and social sciences at the University of
Oslo, has accused one of Sathya Sai Baba’s top aides of serious
plagiarism. The official is Dr G. Venkataraman, Sathya Sai Baba’
deputy chairman of the international Sathya Sai Organization and
head of its progagandist radio network, Sai Global Harmony. Venakataraman
was formerly part of India’s nuclear science establishment, was
Sathya Sai Baba’s former close aide, Dr. S. Bhagavantham.
(Dr G.Venkataraman, left)
In his article, Venkataraman – the most gullible physicist alive? Robert
Priddy (see Wikipedia entry) notes:
“Dr. G. Venkataraman reviews at length
developments in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos… though
nothing scientific that is not found in hundreds of books and other
media. Venkataraman was a physicist working for the Indian
government’s nuclear programme. However, he has copied his
information on astronomy from other scientific authorities. Yet he
does not once attribute anything he reports to its originators or to
other scientific sources! He has even plagiarised text from the
Dennis Dutton website, without any mention …