This SCAM is taking INDIA for a ride (ft. Narendra Nayak) | Midbrain Activation | Brain Optimization

[@prachi8771]

my mom actually made me do this thing lmao

[@scienceisdope]

And? What did they teach you in the course?

[@prachi8771]

@@scienceisdope Back then I thought it was actually magic. They had sessions for the whole day. We used to meditate(?) idk if that is the right word, but they used to play some sounds of some frequency. That was supposed to enter our brains and activate the neurons. We also had to recite weird poems(?). The phrases had no meaning. We had lectures on brain functions, but I can't remember the contents. It was of 15 days, and by the 10th day our brains were "activated". We did the whole putting on blindfolds thing. I thought i was able to see the objects because my brain was activated lol. I mean, that's what they told us. They had told us a procedure to follow- first smell the object, then rub on the head, something like that. Sadly this is not the only scam my mom forced me into, she is very gullible. Your channel gives me hope!

[@shreyasr5629]

@@prachi8771 Ohhh daaaamn I was under the impression that kids actually understand this is a scam but then lie to their parents, or are MADE TO lie to their parents. So, at what point did you realize that your brain was not actually activated?

[@scienceisdope]

@@prachi8771 Did you realise by yourself that you were seeing objects with your eyes?

[@tazziiieee]

@@shreyasr5629 lmao

[@vimohlive]

What we really need is "Parent Brain Activation".

[@kunalkashelani585]

Exactly 😂

[@sundeutsch]

Haha. Good one.

[@ramnarayan7641]

Yes, hilarious!!

[@anonymoushandle007]

I don't have a scientific explanation about this but I see it live everyday at my home. My cousins, who are 8 years and 12 years old, practice this yoga and whatever I draw and give them, they can tell what exactly it is, including the color I've used. I want to point out that I make sure that there's nobody else in the room, their eyes are tightly covered etc. I still find it hard to believe but it is true. I mean just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't work.

[@hisham5717]

@@anonymoushandle007 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZC7fpR5Z5WWg68 Hope you watch this video. It's a live session of exposing this Mid-brain scam. It's in Malayalam, but visuals will be enough to understand the scam. The guy is a famous magician, he knows the trick because they use it for magics. It's just a magic trick, nothing about Mid-brain activation or anything.

[@DrPraveenTripathiPsy]

Oh thank you. One of my patients made her daughter do this in front of me. And I was totally bamboozled. I knew this can't be true but didn't know how we're they doing it. I suspect that the kids are being made to believe that they are using the senses of smell and touch, rather than vision, by giving them strong suggestions. Good job Pranav, keep talking science. Keep talking sense. More power to you

[@scienceisdope]

Thank you sir!

[@mdh_masalewale8681]

@@comfortable_east worst part is that the judges are IIT - IIM graduates.... Debunking this should not only be obvious for them, it should be a moral obligation

[@LightYagami-sj2ls]

@@mdh_masalewale8681 Actually Ashneer told this guy that this whole thing sounded gimmicky.However he had to mince his words because he knew that many Indians would be offended by this shit.

[@mdh_masalewale8681]

@@LightYagami-sj2ls dude just imagine, this entire scam industry could've collapsed if any one judge debunked it on cam. It would be 10/10 shark tank content and also raise awareness against this specific pseudoscience to as large of an audience as possible

[@LightYagami-sj2ls]

@@mdh_masalewale8681 Midbrain activation has been debunked multiple times.Nowadays they market this trash as "Brain Optimisation."It's just one thing after another.I personally think that there should be strict action possibly hefty fines/jail time for these people who promote pseudoscience.

[@saanvinalavde6323]

A kid from our building had joined such course. He showed his skills in our building ka annual puja🤣🤣🤣 And the objects he was identifying were only which he carried with himself🤣🤣

[@Q_QQ_Q]

Nbtrahmin quota people 😂🤣😂🤣

[@iaryansr]

@@Q_QQ_Q can you clarify

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@@iaryansr ??

[@iaryansr]

@@Q_QQ_Q what is nbtrahmin

[@valorkurzatx]

Building ka annual puja??? Aapke paas toh duniya bhar ka paisa h

[@atulxess5565]

If they went to India's Got talent, they would've got a standing ovation or golden buzzer in the name of desh ka product 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@soumyaagnihotri8058]

Some already tried that on IGT some years ago

[@yashrajsoni8804]

Kahe ka desh ka product , unho ne khud bola "Japanese technique "

[@leatherxrose7743]

@@soumyaagnihotri8058 yess!!! I was about to tell that, I wonder if it was this same family because I don't remember it that well. I remember the girl telling she sees Ganesh ji while reading the book when kirron kher asked her if she could see anything

[@soumyaagnihotri8058]

@@leatherxrose7743 and an audiance members exposed her tricks

[@user-by4nd5yg8e]

@@soumyaagnihotri8058 is that episode or video on KZbin?

[@sujanbanerjee1]

Here from Only Desi. Great job Sir exposing such scams. This video has been around for 2 years & some stupid videos garner millions of views. Hope KZbin does something about it.

[@romilmahant2971]

I'm from himachal, this is disaster for our education system, you are doing great job by exposing such jokers 👍👍👍👍

[@VijayThakurMD]

Hey fellow Pahari

[@surendrapatro7932]

This man is quite underrated.... Amazing content bro. India needs rational and logical thinkers like you.

[@sapandream]

Don't say underrated spread the video and make him viral

[@surendrapatro7932]

@@naman4067 Why'd a foreigner think it's shameful? His country could've have more scams like this.... Scams happens everywhere. Heck Indians are way better than westerners when it comes to listening to scientists. There's almost non existant anti vaxxers in India, unlike United States and Canada.

[@anonymoushandle007]

@@naman4067 Ch****, come out of your inferiority complex, foreigners kya sochenge? Muh me le le unka. 😂 Unke yahaan churches me kya kya hota tujhe pata hai?

[@kantoumanjigang]

@@naman4067 why do you care lmao? how is their perspective or opinion affecting ya? they have already made a bad perspective for Indians due to microsoft call centre scams, population, slums, etc.. just don't give a f, and keep on improving yourself

[@kantoumanjigang]

@@surendrapatro7932 anti vaxxer influencers were paid in India lol, i guess west behind it too..

[@kumarnarayana5105]

The scariest part is these children are being trained to lie and falsify ! Honestly, the parents are the real culprits and lack evaluative thinking ! 🙏

[@hrishikeshdasdmch8666]

They are brainwashed 😭

[@gorillaisdork8319]

Our society is dumbed down,

[@paras451]

a whatsapp message is all you need to convince your parents about any theory

[@One2_8869]

What kuch vi Tumhe kese pta vo joot bolre h

[@muqsith_001]

@@One2_8869 apko kaise patha vo jhoot ni bol rha

[@harshnair7126]

My question is, why don't they teach this to a 'Blind person' who needs it the most! . . Obviously, they can't because it's a scam.

[@sanasayed5793]

Exactly 😂

[@ananyaverma1957]

It can be taught to blind people also since usage of eyes is not that necessary. Me n my brother underwent this procedure so ik. We could actually feel colours. For example black was rough, red was hot, violet smelled ink like, blue felt cool and calm. Depends on person to person. But this didn't help with our academics or anything

[@harshnair7126]

@@ananyaverma1957 I think you're confusing with something called 'Synesthesia'.

[@ananyaverma1957]

@@harshnair7126 no it was called mid brain activation maybe it has a synonym

[@Breaker_69]

@@ananyaverma1957 can you do that in a dark room

[@semantimanna8207]

Honestly though, how does seeing things blindfolded make anybody a genuis? So what if you can read mathematical equations in the dark, you still have to solve them!

[@ubiquitous9105]

Fax!

[@anonymoushandle007]

This comment is so dumb. 🤦🏻‍♂️ If the child has developed an intelligence that can perceive without eyes, it means that the same intelligence helps them to solve the problem easily. Have you not heard of Ramanujan? He used to say that the Devi has given him those equations in his dream. I don't believe it was a Devi, but I believe that there's a higher intelligence in the world which is beyond man's mind. Humans are about 20,000 years old, their modern science is about 400 years old, and the universe is 13,000,000,000 years old.. yet the most humans (particularly who know Little bit of science) think they are smarter than the universe's intelligence. What if a human taps into that higher intelligence?

[@semantimanna8207]

@@anonymoushandle007 @Tejas Rathore you know intelligence is not this very abstract thing that one can have or not have. Shakespeare is a literary genius and Ramanujan is a mathematical genius. There are some people who are not mentally equipped to look after themselves but they can learn a language is just a few months. None of these is because someone tapped into the 'higher intelligence' but because everyone's brains works in different ways. In fact, there have been some documented cases where people have had their whole personality changed after getting an injury in their head. And about what Ramanujan said, I have no idea what he meant when he said that and I am not going to guess. Nothing will change the fact that he was a revolutionary. Besides this concept of 'higher intelligence' that you are touting about here is a completely different ballgame altogether. That's not what this video or my comment was about. So go comment about it in videos that actually talk about it. My comment was to highlight the stupid notions based on which parents send their kids to such places. Lastly seeing things and solving maths equations occupy different sections of the brain. So honestly, either you are dumb or you are just a troll. And I am not interested in engaging with either of those.

[@seerthefool]

@@anonymoushandle007 thats dumb, its almost the same as me saying I can eat food without using my teeth so I have an easier time eating food.

[@PotatoWiz]

Savage :(

[@sharwari24]

A sane voice amidst all the insanity around us! You are doing a great job Pranav :)

[@scienceisdope]

Thank you!

[@kunalkashelani585]

@@scienceisdope bro, next go for that guy who claims he can teach Children to walk at age of 6 months and also makes other outrageous claims!

[@Hustle_24]

@@kunalkashelani585 who?

[@selvakumarjawahar]

With people like you around, my hope for scientifically aware India is alive.. Never stop doing what you do. You earned yourself a Patreon member :)

[@scienceisdope]

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

[@anonymoushandle007]

@@scienceisdope I don't have a scientific explanation about this but I see it live everyday at my home. My cousins, who are 8 years and 12 years old, practice this yoga and whatever I draw and give them, they can tell what exactly it is, including the color I've used. I want to point out that I make sure that there's nobody else in the room, their eyes are tightly covered etc. I still find it hard to believe but it is true. I mean just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't work. I wanted to add that my cousins are not scamsters. 😛 I am not going to tell you the name of the Yoga practice because I know you're so full of your little knowledge of science that you'll go and malign those guys without proof, who are actually taking the Yogic sciences forward.

[@abisgamer4825]

@@anonymoushandle007 lmao yeah sure

[@crazimathx4905]

@@anonymoushandle007 ya...ya.....im happy dude....i hope ur cousins get jobs in Microsoft as a Sadhu.....best wishes

[@crazimathx4905]

@@anonymoushandle007 i appreciate that u diidnt tell us the name of yoga....or else ur all scammers wud hv come to ur house for PHD ....LOL

[@jaivardhansahay9297]

Around 4-5 years ago, a similar organization was set up in my native village. They claimed that they could train children to read anything blindfolded through their nose(same thing as shown in the video). Around 2-3thousand children enrolled. They were advised not to eat junk food or any kind of meat, as it could make them lose their 'power' to perceive through their noses. I too was a kid back then, probably of age 12 or 13 and interested by that attended one of their sessions. The trainers there first made the students sleep for 1 hour and then played some kind of music which they claimed would activate their brain which would allow them to use other sense organs to see whatever object is put before them without using their eyes. This seemed to work and as a kid, this impressed me very much. People then forgot about it, they never questioned how it 'worked', only now after your video it came back to me. What amuses me is how these scamsters brainwash children into doing all these stuff and what's more intriguing is why these children support these people despite knowing that there is nothing special in this, and don't speak up that they were able to see through the gaps in the blindfold. Oh and thanks man for exposing this bs. Keep up the good work

[@thanos4138]

I got scammed too its the same story as u

[@jayeshpanda2782]

My Mom also told me to go for this session and we had to pay around 12k for it since we had seen a demo around 8 yrs ago where the person was reading serial numbers from a 1000 rupee note and then we fell for it, so the sessions were only on Saturday and Sunday and we stayed there the whole day from 9-6, where they would make us do mind exercises, zumba and 3-4 hrs of meditation and listening to music, then at around 4 they would let the sunlight enter the room and we were blindfolded, then they would give us cards with colour and we had to smell it or they used to rub it in our head. Initially for 2 weeks I couldn't see a single thing, but then the next week I could see colours flashing my eyes idk how but I could feel it, but when I used to practice the same thing at home I couldn't see a single thing, and then Mam asked me to read words but I couldn't and I finally left the course and 12k went down the drain.

[@scienceisdope]

I see... So they aren't necessarily telling the kids to lie. Would you like to come on a Livestream and tell us your experience?

[@AM-jx3zf]

🤣🤣🤣you were ascending to different dimension

[@online_rahul]

Maybe its some trick in blindfold

[@professorelixir3351]

This is even done by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

[@udaydikshitb21g76]

Did you do it from arham brain chargers perhaps ?

[@popoye5154]

To your point of feeling bad for the judges who have to invest after the 5-10 minute pitch; they're not actually obliged to invest as soon as the deal is closed on air. They do their due diligence after closing it on air. And only after the claims are met, do they go ahead and invest.

[@popoye5154]

Nice video, btw👍🏼 Loved your mid brain technique 😂 And your invaluable first law, "where there's desperation, a scam is waiting to happen"🙌🏼

[@grf123]

Yup in reality it's takes between 45 minutes to 1.5 hr for each pitch, they show us only 5 to 10 minutes, also the investment on show is a soft promise, sharks have teams that verify this stuff and deal goes if everything is right. I watched a KZbin video of tanmay Bhatt with Aman gupta and namrita thapar

[@scienceisdope]

Yeah i know. For the sake of the joke I made, this works i suppose

[@metaedge2444]

Evolution - took millions of years to produce a human eye Some humans - nope we wanna blind fold our children

[@kaustubhprakash1273]

The sharks+Sony probably knew that the brain optimisation was a scam, but they chose to ignore it for TRP purposes. Great channel, I wish your channel could get a wider reach amongst all Indians who believe in things like homeopathy and whatnot. Subscribed.

[@sai_69]

@Praveen Sampath If you're saying Ayurveda is fine, it's practitioners are crooked, I'd like to defer.

[@kaustubhraizada]

@Praveen Sampath homeopathy is scam 🤣🤣 there are university around the world gov funded 🤣in western European countries 😗

[@History4Buff]

@@kaustubhraizada How does your argument prove that homeopathy is not a scam??

[@kaustubhraizada]

@@History4Buff because it's well researched

[@ThatControlUser]

@@kaustubhraizada being well researched doesn't prove it to be true. Something can be well researched and conclusion maybe false. So stop believing in expensive pseudoscience.

[@ayushxshukla]

I'm so glad you posted this. As a magician myself, I can vouch for the fact that we can do this with fair ease and it's nothing to deal with any sort of activation, it's a trick. Plain and simple!

[@vaishaksuresh8555]

There was a 40 + aged woman who tried to trick me with this scam. She was trying to get me to pay her for a brain exercise + meditation class. I instantly figured out that she was able to see because of the white cotton and the gap near her nose. But didn't tell her right away. I asked her if I could try once. She said yes, but because of fear of getting caught she said to me, that she didnt have anymore fresh cotton, and that I dont have to put the cotton on because she trusts me. But I insisted on putting the same cotton that she used and guessed all the cards correctly. Nothing else had to be said, because she left immediately.

[@mukta4689]

Haha brilliant

[@xoxo-iq4ef]

🤣🤣

[@vishwakumar2864]

7:10 Pranav's first law of scams : When you are desperate , there's a scam looking to take advantage of you . 😆👍

[@Abhijeetonroll]

Narendra Nayak ❤️. Have been following him since 2011. I usually follow him on FB, good to see him on KZbin thanks to you. So that a larger audience can see it for themselves

[@playerlol_1842]

If they can make blindfolded child see through it by brain optimization . They should be able to do this with blind children it would change their life . But I never heard of such case of doing brain optimization with a blind kid

[@mukta4689]

Lol true

[@cpsaleemyt]

Why did they have to say "it comes from Japan " ? It is " an ancient Indian mind technique " would have been a better sales (scam ) pitch ! 😄

[@vipe4_1971]

The word "vedic" would make it more attractive

[@maheshpadalingam3137]

Mabye the same reason why everyone wants their kid to study in USA.

[@fiascojuego4607]

@@maheshpadalingam3137 not study, but rather work, not many people can afford to study there

[@yogendrapratapsingh8225]

Thanks for bringing this to the fore. I saw this on Shark Tank and was convinced this is some ridiculous scam. I'm just amazed how do they get through the shortlisting of such a big show and get the undue publicity.

[@anandsharma7430]

Shark Tank India is a TRP focussed show, not so much about innovation. Too much drama. Dramatic music, dramatic pauses, repeating camera focus on facial expressions, etc are soap opera techniques, and wildly out of place in a cerebral, discussion-oriented situation like funding startups.

[@arnavverma2461]

When the episode of kbc had aired , the girl pretended to guess the colour of some objects just by touching it , so i had raised the question that if it's only by touch , then why does she need to get her eyes in the line of the object , she can even keep her head upwards and then guess the colour , and now proved i was right when I raised this question 😁☺️

[@starlordgg]

India is the best country to start scams and also get scammed.

[@cacavb]

AOL has hands on experience in scamming people around

[@ssharma1580]

Most humans hv the same capability! Some can fool others, while others r specialized in Scam/ deception.

[@saurabhpandey-td2rt]

there was also an episode on show called "OMG! yeh mera india" on nat geo hosted by krushna. didn't know then that this scam is so much present in this country. btw i saw that episode about 10 years ago

[@deepEleven]

Just wanted to say that an average shark tank pitch is about an hour long, it is just edited to look like it is 5-10 minutes long. And, honestly, looking from an investment point of view, it doesn't even matter if the product is a scam as long as it is profitable.

[@randomrainbow8423]

I had done this in 2015. We had a 12 day course or something where we did meditation and listened to weird sounds, performed some strange activities and I thought by magic I'll be able to see things blindfolded. However I couldn't. I did not want to disappoint anyone so I used to peek through the tiny gaps in the blindfold. I always felt like I was cheating since everyone else could recognize stuff easily while I had to "cheat". Now, thanks to this video, I am relieved to know that I was not the only one and infact everyone did the same. It's a request to everyone to not fall for this scam.

[@chitranshsrivastav4648]

This is probably the best KZbin channel in India

[@scienceisdope]

That means a lot man!

[@dhruvparmar3226]

Sad part is that these scammers are doing all this with the help of the childrens who are also making thier parents fool. After all this our samaaj🤡

[@softgrowl]

@Meenal Verma can that emotion be called greed

[@1dpriya]

Out of all the pitches on Shark Tank the “Ayurvedic/Herbal tea can cure PCOD and diabetes” pitch was by far the most enraging to watch. Please have a look at that one too if you can!! 😊

[@mukta4689]

Wow wtf

[@rekhamaity860]

There's literally an establishment in my city in which they "enhance" kids and many parents send their kids into these workshops throwing in tons of money. Also, they go around promoting their stuff in each and every school every couple of months (pre-pandemic) , if that wasn't enough they organise events online due to classes being restricted to online. Really messed up.

[@Identity1111]

Hats off to you Pranav bhai! This was real fun to watch. After ages did I watch a full video on KZbin without getting distracted. (apart from watching my own content 🥲)

[@scienceisdope]

Thanks man!

[@SugeetStudios]

I got the same feeling when I was watching the show. I am grateful to you for taking such initiatives. India needs to develop a scientific temper, and people like you play an important role.

[@sparshcastic]

I remember falling for the same scam but it was done by none-other than SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR'S foundation art of living, they have a course named INTUTION, it is only for people under 18 years of age and used to cost Rs 10,000 in 2017-18. My cousin first took the course. He was 17 -18 at that time, on the last day they asked people to make a painting and then blindfolded children to touch and read each other's painting to tell what the other person had drawn. the other person drew a flower or something but my cousin guessed sun, (he couldn't see anything) but was made believe that he could feel it but making a relation as follows - that you saw sun and sunlight is needed to grow a flower and thus you are in the right direction and you guessed by touching. My cousin was not impressed and asked me not to join.

[@cacavb]

Why to call sri he is ravi

[@kunalkashelani585]

Man, just a few weeks ago my friend said his little cousin can do this. I checked her and found out she was bluffing! I didn't want to expose the little girl, so I told my friend in private that it's fraudulent and somehow the ones who have taught her this have convinced her to never speak truth about it!!

[@danyalshamsi1161]

This is just what I wanted, lol. I saw your update about an upcoming video in the evening, and suggested making a video on this very pitch on Shark Tank. And I see this is what the video is about. Eagerly waiting for the video to start!

[@paganmallu]

I watch your channel with a notebook and I got fooled by this episode when I first saw it. But I was sure when you took up the Ayurveda episode, this would also be broken down. Science is Dope 🤘🏾

[@hackermango]

People paying money to read with closed eyes? I can read with open eyes!

[@naman06]

My mom made me do this thing, she was really mad when I didn't peep through the blind fold. I started peeping and my mom got happy for sometime. Then "GMA" got sued and deleted then my mom understood that I am doing something scientifically impossible

[@namanjain4645]

I remember they came to my school 6 years ago(in a rather small town). I couldn’t take the course because supposedly only small kids can learn it well and to my surprise a couple of kids from my school learnt it. Feels great to finally see how its actually done. 😮

[@bamremix8235]

This was exactly what I thought as soon as I heard their pitch! "Scientific Magic"..."Brain Optimization"..."Included in school curriculum" ....What the f...?? Nice video!

[@abhisheksharma1921]

Sharks do not invest at the end of their pitch. They just make them an error and give them a dummy check, after the show, they check whether the claims made by them are correct or not, and based on that they decide whether to reject the deal or go forward with it.

[@amex4453]

offer*

[@karthikkash681]

One boy around 11 yrs of age in our society performed this trick in front us.. I just asked him can i close your eyes, he agreed under pressure because many people were watching .. I simply went and closed his eyelids with just one finger horizontally placed with minimum pressure.. Next moment he suddenly started shouting and acting wierdly accusing me of pressing his eyes too hard and trying to damage his eyes and created a scene, his mother started yeiling at me. And all that show ended in havoc.. I just think they are trained to do this, if in any case they get caught, just create nuisance and get away...And as they are kids no one can even say anything.

[@Niggasonic_Teenage_Warhead]

Damn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 u r a sigma dude, honestly I hate these types of people

[@anmolswarnkar7707]

I had the exact same thoughts while watching this episode on shark tank, the sharks didn't even question the credibility of this thing. They were concerned about the business model!

[@arjunNidigallu]

Brilliant video. People like Narendra Nayak are national treasures and deserve every bit of credit for saving countless families from this trap. Thank you Pranav for continuing to debunk these exploitative efforts! Kudos!

[@shashikumarvs52]

I hope you get inspired by prof Narendra nayak for this video

[@shaikhmohinuddin6778]

As I see many people getting trapped in this and buying this course or whatever why isn't any parent complaint about this after knowing the truth. How do they brainwash them?

[@scepticgene]

Art of living's version of this is called Prajna yoga

[@muttley2190]

OMG I finally found a comment about Art of Living!!! They have been scamming the whole nation for over two decades!

[@八ルシュ-z6v]

This actually came in my school at like 2015 when i was in 5th grade. Everyone in my class got it since they just thought of all this like toys cool-looking and stuff and their parents agreed too. They convinced me too but weren't able to convince my parents lmao. My parents are awesome. I begged them so much to get it for me. It costed around 500-1000 rs

[@AlphaCentauri24]

Your school got a cut of those profits.

[@tazziiieee]

Imma be verbose here, but these people are diabolical, pretentious, conmen charlatans. Keep exposing such scammers dude! Good work! 👍

[@swapnaneelsen8795]

I just want to say......I have attended a seminar with Sir Narendra Nayak, and later after the show, I even had the chance to sit right next to him and have the lunch. And I even shared the stage with him for the demonstration of a stunt! I was just 13 then, and now at the age of 19, I feel so lucky about meeting such a person IRL

[@melroyc.f.fernandes7467]

👍👀 Thank you. Also for giving credit where it is due with the interview with Prof. Nayak. Prof. Nayak must be happy that he can pass the torch on to someone like you and for you (and many more) to keep the fire of rationality, reason and questioning burning.

[@SHIVAMSHARMA10]

Bhai jo tu kaam kar rha hai ye main karne ki 5 saal se soch rha tha! Thanks man for taking an initiative and cleaning the BS from Indian youtube and preventing gullible people from getting scammed.

[@aryandewan]

True bro I was also made to do such programs by my mom a few years back and it is a total fake. With you and Dr. Narendra in this revolution.

[@rudolf895]

I'm sharing this with my family who watches KBC. Very well explained and exposed!! Kudos

[@sourinbasu5277]

Kudos to you for exposing their stupidly simple trick! We need more awareness videos like this to prevent parents from spending thousands and sending their kids to lie-training camps. Definitely sharing this video with everyone

[@BharatS7749]

I was around 11, when I saw a movie of Nasiruddin shah in which he acted a blind man doing all his chres himself. It intrigued me so much that I started doing things with my eyes closed. Things like Taking out my books, keeping them back in place, walking around my house without falling, pouring water in glass accurately. I must have activated my midbrain in six months but I can clearly say that it was largely memory at work. Then touch. And certainly, I couldnt read my book With closed eyes😂.

[@Monika0207s]

By touching we can identify many things.. touching, hearing , listening and seeing all are our senses.. However to read and to identify colours we need to see them 😂

[@eklautasaquib]

Desperation can lead u to scam. Man.. last year in sept I got scammed on 99acres by those who claim to be army men. I got a good lesson of my life but with a price 😭😭. I was so desperate back then. My hause was empty for years because of pandemic

[@abhalera]

Good job Pranav to make a video about it. Liked your idea of turning off the lights 🤣 We can also hand them the book flipped upside-down and see if they can read as fast as reading the book in correct orientation

[@nigirizushi533]

This has slowly become my fave indian infotainment channel. Keep at it!!!

[@lunaray5073]

This scam actually tried to make its way in Nepal few years back and we did this trial session with bunch of other kids and parents. This scam part was main objective but other training were actually brain engaging. Thank God we never pursue it after that trial session because all of didn't think it was worthy, this is only gonna be useful if we get blind and it felt gimmick too. They even try to put you in rush telling you can't learn this after you reach 18 or 16 so parents will pursue it immediately. The season was so weird.

[@krishan4079]

Ashneer not calling them out hurt my brain

[@vallabhdeshpande4079]

According to this scam, there would be no blind people.

[@scienceisdope]

Yup

[@muttley2190]

Yes! That's the claim of Art of Living guru Sri Sri Ravishankar that they're teaching visually impaired kids to actually see with this blindfold technique. No eye surgery nothing. Simply using Prajna Yoga (that's what they call it), visually impaired kids are able to recognize colors and read!

[@Panchsheeel]

I feel bad for all the parents who get involved in this scam 😔, such a complete lack of a conscience these people have - making kids lie!! insane.

[@theaditxys]

My parents also made me do this course: 1) we used to do meditation for 3 hours straight with irritating music 😑 2) use to do crazy dance and hand movement in name of exercise smh They claimed that this will boost children's minds and give them the superpower to recognize color, text, and even ride vehicles blindfolded 🤦, I knew it was a scam from the beginning but I can't win an argument against my parents 😂.

[@namjoonandchanarebeautiful1214]

Omg , mine too , and when i was not able to tell , my father just said it's my fault . Because they wanted to show off me to relative like it was such a waste of time , as a kid i thought i was weak for not being able to learn this like how they do it on tv . But i realised it after that there are better things i can learn rather than reading without eyes .

[@namjoonandchanarebeautiful1214]

@Meenal Verma at that time it really did but i have grown up and realised my job is not to satisfy people's extraordinary believes , it is to live the life i want too . Btw thanks

[@theaditxys]

The meditation part was helpful, I think that everything happens for reasons, and learning from your's and others' mistakes is necessary.

[@namjoonandchanarebeautiful1214]

@@theaditxys Yup meditation is important for feeling calm , i agree .

[@SunSet-kl1xh]

Same I was also part of this scam

[@theunbeatable728]

Bro thanks for this video I am grade 11 student (Science) and back in time people like this came in my city for demos like this in order to grab middle class desperate parents' money. They showed similiar things in the seminar and I was Stunned by those. My cousin sister joined the cource and started doing these "Superbrain" Things and I to this day was so confused how in the hell this was even possible. You cleared it and thanks for that

[@masterking7479]

One of my cousins used to tell me that he can read without looking. Once when he was unaware, I took those blindfolds and wore them. I came to know anyone can see through it clearly.

[@straightbusta2609]

Thank you, for making this video. Many many people were being scammed of this a few years back, and now it's back again

[@Vaibhav221B]

Dr.Nayak is Such a legend..🙏🙏

[@shreyassen4260]

Thanks for making a video on this. Absolutely no one was covering this topic. Subscribed 👍

[@I_love_blasphemy]

Science is Dope and Pranav should replace the priest, Khalifa and the Pope. Love you man. You are extremely underrated bro...….India needs content creators like you.

[@scythe36]

After I watched it on Shark tank, I was shocked that no one objected it. But it's good to see you bring it to light.

[@cauliflowerhead2735]

The Sharks rejected the idea. That's a statement in itself.

[@arkapravasarkar7327]

This video should be broadcasted in every TV channel to show them their SCAM

[@vishwakumar2864]

Everyone's a gangster , until Dr. Narendra Nayak comes and exposes them as scamsters 🤩🔥

[@viveknair891]

thanks for using the Mahabharat book and subtle hinting your ideological leanings , didnt want to see the rest of the video

[@info.sridhar]

he got paid. i lost trust in his content 🤦🤦

[@viveknair891]

@@info.sridhar but he is good next level he even made a video on zakir naik so as to appear fair but targets are well known hindu / Indic Renaissance icons. He knows they are general speakers but he draga them to his field and says E=mc2 mein m capital nahi tha

[@info.sridhar]

@@viveknair891 yess, but started as science , ended up as mocker

[@Pramod_Dubey]

Amazing channel! Great to see someone speaking out against the dangerous amounts of pseudoscience going around in the country that too with the right research and facts.

[@metalman4393]

I think we should encourage more scepticism and inquiry in this country where people believe all kinds of superstitious bullshit. Videos like this help with that i think.

[@vivekvijaykumar43]

Finally..two of my favourite people together ☺️🙌🙌..dope as usual pranav. Nayak sir is the GOAT👌

[@nileshdarunde]

That's what I always said from years when I first saw this bullshit in India got talent. If you can read without looking at it, then just turn off the lights because it would be the same thing.

[@mr.unknown9506]

Actually sir This type of scam came to my area they took 3 -6hrs took some practice session then They said now to that thing I did I guessed all the thing but I knew I can see that And when some other kid tried it what I did was kept hand on his eyes to see if he really can guess it before me keeping hand he was able to guess just after i kept hand he was just Randomly saying anything so this was the story BTW I was 12 or 13 at that I understood the scam they said their centre is in other city would to join training for 10 -12 day And I straight up said no but but BUUUT MY WHOLE COLONY SAID NOOO thank fully it was not in my town And I am happy that people of my area didnt get scamed Thanks for showing this.

[@rahulp5931]

Hi Pranav, this trick also shown on Sony TV Kapil Sharma show, one father + daughter. They claimed its yoga. I believe they were towards ( in between ) vasai to palghar - Thane Mumbai. Surprised to see all major shows on Sony TV shown this blind fold as brain development .

[@DYtechnicalgyan]

One thing is wrong the pitches on shark tank india do not run for just some minutes most of the time they go hours and we are only showed some minutes that is also the reason why they wear same clothes so that it can be edited properly

[@charanredddie9156]

I just watched that episode of shark tank and was searching for " Japan's brain optimization course for free online" and thankfully, KZbin algorithm suggested this video . Thanks a lot . You earned a new subscriber❣❣❣

[@madhusudanpathani1953]

5 years ago I was about to be scammed but my family was sceptical like how's it possible and we didn't get into it

[@garvitjain9648]

My mother also made me attend this 11k session. They told us this work for 15 or less year old kids which make me think now that it was a scam as small kids would tell lie of seeing blindfolded due to the fear of parents and the money they paid. In that they made us do meditation, zumba, mental exercises, watch some videos, sleep. There was a blind kid also. They made him try this again and again But it kind looked like he used to guess images. There was show on history tv18 called omg! Ye mera india. In that also there was a boy who was practising this for years and he also drove scooty blindfolded and made record. I am shocked!!!

[@skanderberg8701]

Lol is this a scam😂. I used to do this when I was a kid. Who falls for this🥴

[@lion581]

Lol.... 😂 😂 😂... Me tooooo.

[@poojapattni1585]

These people came to my school for promotion almost 6 years ago when i was in 6th class but at that age also i realised that they were seeing from gaps 🤣🤣

[@History4Buff]

This is a scam which proves that commen sense is not so commen

[@rajeshbandaru7413]

Well done exposing scamsters!! You earned another subscriber. Looking forward to more such content. Cheers!

[@RachanaAgarwal-t1e]

This channel needs to grow asap!! Found you a month ago really good content

[@HL-dw4dl]

Even I attended some of these classes. Initially they will sasy stuff like you are doing much better than your peers. After that they will start blaming you for not guessing stuff.

[@dr_sanmesh]

Being a magician I would say that this is a very good trick to peform 😂

[@kishordeka4874]

These parents are teaching their own children to lie. Great parents. Salute.

[@beactivebehappy9894]

With this video you have just hit the roof. Obviously 50% credit goes to the editor, and rest whoever planned it (ig you only). e.g. the structure, not including the whole interview in this video, so viewers don't drop off. All in all, a solid 8/10.

[@abhistraj4284]

This scam happened about 1.5 months ago at my uncle's home (but they don't know about this scam), they gave scammers around 30,000 rupees for their 2 children 6 classes , scammer promised that they will increase their children's mental capacity and learning and creative power, also they did this blindfold scam to make them believe. They did the exact same things, i was 110% sure, this is a scam but i didn't did anything.

[@pradeepgaur4647]

When parents missed thier science classes

[@sumithrasumi6561]

6:02 🤣🤣 You just broke my humour bro !

[@monkewithgun1854]

I discovered gold today **this channel**