{"id":2757,"date":"2003-05-21T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/21\/conspiracy-theory-update-3\/"},"modified":"2003-05-21T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T10:24:03","slug":"conspiracy-theory-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200305\/conspiracy-theory-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theory update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It now turns out that Reliance didn&#8217;t actually <i>develop <\/i> the SARS virus. As is traditional in India, they merely <i>rediscovered<\/i> the knowledge that  was already there in the <i>Atharva Veda.<\/i> In the course of the rediscovery, they also found that the SARS was a waterborne disease, the spread of which in fact caused the destruction of the Indus valley civilisation. Aryans (and the Dravidians who remained) developed immunity to the virus, which carries on to this day.  It is not yet known whether the disease was intentionally spread by the invading Aryans. If they did, it would be the first recorded instance of bio-warfare. <\/p>\n<p>The virus was waterborne remember? The Aryan Invaders called the river which carried the disease <i>SARS<\/i>wati.<\/p>\n<p><small><b>Warning:<\/b> If you feel the urge to bang your head in frustration after this, you are adviced to look out for a pillow or a cushion. <i>The Examined Life <\/i> cannot be held responsible for any direct or consequential damages to your cognitive capacity if you disregard this advice. <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now turns out that Reliance didn&#8217;t actually develop the SARS virus. As is traditional in India, they merely rediscovered the knowledge that was already there in the Atharva Veda. In the course of the rediscovery, they also found that the SARS was a waterborne disease, the spread of which in fact caused the destruction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}