Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is the founder of Trivedi Global, Inc., a provider of health and wellness products and services. His Google Scholar profile shows 795 publications with a total citation count of 12,032 (as of 31 July 2024). This prolific output reached its peak in 2015, with 268 articles.
“How is this possible?” you can ask. Here is the reason. Only 17 out of 795 articles are indexed in PubMed. All the others were published in journals that do not meet the quality standards of MEDLINE. {This is a fact.}1
The National Library of Medicine determines whether a journal is included in MEDLINE (the source database of PubMed) based on:
- Scope and coverage
- Editorial guidelines and processes
- Scientific rigor/methodological rigor
- Production and administration
- Impact
So-called “predatory journals” – first documented by librarian Jeffrey Beall – do not meet MEDLINE’s quality standards.
According to Wikipedia, predatory publishing is “an exploitative academic publishing business model, in which the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer review process, is highly opaque, and often uses aggressive solicitation practices.”
In such journals, the time between manuscript submission and acceptance for publication is alarmingly short, leading some to question whether adequate peer review had taken place.
Here are more examples for Trivedi et al. (2015). Note that the time from submission to publication was 8-10 days.2
In vitro evaluation of biofield treatment on viral load against human immunodeficiency-1 and cytomegalovirus
American Journal of Health Research (Volume 3, Issue 6)
Received: 9 October 2015 Accepted: 19 October 2015
Evaluation of plant growth regulator, immunity and DNA fingerprinting of biofield energy treated mustard seeds (Brassica juncea)
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries (Volume 4, Issue 6)
Received: 11 October 2015 Accepted: 19 October 2015
Agronomic characteristics, growth analysis and yield response of biofield treated mustard, cowpea, horse gram and groundnut
International Journal of Genetics and Genomics (Volume 3, Issue 6)
Received: 12 October 2015 Accepted: 21 October 2015
Evaluation of biochemical marker – glutathione and DNA fingerprint of biofield energy treated Oryza sativa
American Journal of BioScience (Volume 3, Issue 6)
Received: 12 October 2015 Accepted: 21 October 2015
{Qualification: Science Publishing Group claims that articles are peer-reviewed, although some have collected evidence to the contrary.}
Why is this important? When a company tries to sell products and services that are “backed by science,” we are free to consider the evidence for those claims.
My previous post introduced you to Mr. Trivedi and his divine connection:
“Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is an enlightened and miraculous being of divine embodiment, gifted to transform living organisms at the genetic level and non-living materials at the atomic level. … Guruji’s blessing has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people globally, and has been validated globally with groundbreaking research.”
I read a newspaper from 2023, The role of biofield energy therapy on psychological symptoms, mental disorders and stress-related quality of life in adults: A randomized controlled clinical trial (indexed in PubMed), and found anomalies and questionable results. I’m sure some of the reported data are physiologically impossible. Therefore, I urged the journal to reconsider the paper and the publisher (Wiley) to retract it from the scientific literature {if warranted}.
The bottom line (so to speak) for Trivedi Global, Inc. is net revenue from sales of Remote Blessing memberships:
1 blessing, $250 per month (only $200 per month for blessings from his wife, Dahryn)
2 blessings, $400 per month ($300 per month for Dahryn)
…
Daily Blessings, $2000 per month
The path to enlightenment membership
Platinum, $10,000 per month
Caveat emptor.
Footnotes
1 Any statement in curly brackets is an attempt to avoid a lawsuit. See attachment.
2 Other productivity bursts include June 2021 (19 articles) and July 2021 (17 articles). Most of these reported findings from Sprague Dawley rats.
The attachment provides links to past news articles, blog posts, and lawsuits related to Mr. Trivedi, followed by an egregious example of self-citation (which artificially raises the h-index).
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Mahendra Kumar Trivedi: Transform Your Life with the Science of Miracles
Mahendra Trivedi along with other Trivedi Masters have the supernatural ability to transform living organisms and non-living matter through the power of their thoughts, known as The Trivedi Effect®.
Trivedi effect® – The skeptic’s dictionary
TE is an “unknown” energy. Well, it was unknown until 1995, when Trivedi “received ‘guidance’ from Universal Intelligence that the gift he had been given should now be used for the welfare of humanity.”
Mahendra Trivedi
was extensively tested at Penn State University’s Materials Research Laboratory on several occasions from June to September 2009, and we observed no changes in materials or their properties as a result of his “blessings”. We tested MANY solid, powdered and liquid materials, including radioactive materials.
“Blessed” samples were unchanged.
Although there were sporadic changes in a handful of water samples as observed with 785 nm Raman spectroscopy, it must be understood that the changes (a) were not reproducible, (b) occurred sometimes to the blessed samples and sometimes to the control samples and (c) were most likely due to a problem we had with an unstable laser source on the fluctuometer, which was known for its intensity and output. types of sporadic results that were observed.
Mr. Trivedi sued Dr. Slawecki (see PDF) for these and other statements, but the case was dropped.
The Trivedi Defect, by Mike Mosedale (Minnesota Lawyer, July 2015) – journalist Dennis Lang is sued.
Self-citations from: An Impact of Energy of Consciousness (The Trivedi Effect®) on the Physicochemical, Thermal, Structural and Behavioral Properties of Magnesium Gluconate. Biomedical Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2017, pp. 42-54.
https://www.walshmedicalmedia.com/publish-with-us.html
Figure 4 (Trivedi et al., 2024): Proposed schematic representation explains how biofield energy transfer forms quantum entanglements leading to positive results of this therapy. PPR, Practitioner-patient relationship; PPQE, Practitioner-patient quantum energy entanglement; E, energy; h, Planck’s constant; v, Frequency. © 2024 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
