“A newspaper clipping states that NASA has selected an Indian Ayurvedic doctor to study the role of traditional medicine in space travel”
What FACTLY found
The viral newspaper clipping is fake, and the claim that NASA has selected an Indian Ayurvedic doctor for a joint space medicine research mission with ISRO and the Ministry of AYUSH is false. According to official and credible sources, no such collaboration exists. Moreover, there is no media outlet by the name ‘The Yonk Times’. On 18 May 2025, the fact-checking unit of the Government of India’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) clarified in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the viral claim is...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 May 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 20 May 2025, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/groups/133408154100255/?multi_permalinks=1893139241460462&hoiste…
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.