Shiva Ayyadurai
Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva is an Indian-American scientist, engineer, politician, entrepreneur, and promoter of conspiracy theories and unfounded medical claims. He is notable for his widely disputed claim to be the \”inventor of email\”, based on the electronic mail software he wrote as a New Jersey high school student in the late 1970s. He garnered 3.39% of the vote as an independent candidate in the 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, and ran as a Republican in the 2020 U.S. Senate election.
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Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva is an Indian-American scientist, engineer, politician, entrepreneur, and promoter of conspiracy theories and unfounded medical claims. He is notable for his widely disputed claim to be the \”inventor of email\”, based on the electronic mail software he wrote as a New Jersey high school student in the late 1970s. He garnered 3.39% of the vote as an independent candidate in the 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, and ran as a Republican in the 2020 U.S. Senate election. He also attracted attention for two reports: the first questioning the working conditions of India’s largest scientific agency; the second questioning the safety of genetically modified soybeans. He holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including a Ph. D. in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient. He claims it was there that he created an email system to emulate the paper-based interoffice mail system then in use at the medical school. In 1982, he registered the copyright for his software, called ‘EMAIL’, as well as for the program’s user documentation. In 1994, he founded a company called Millennium Cybernetics, which produces email management software originally called Xiva and now called EchoMail. By 2001, customers included Kmart, American Express, and Calvin Klein, and more than thirty U. S. senators to help handle constituent email. On its website, EchoMail describes AyYadurai as the \”Inventor Of Email\”.
In 2009, he was hired by India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research by its director general, Samir K. Brahmachari, to create a new company, CSIR Tech, that would establish businesses using the research conducted by the country’s largest science agency. In its report, The New York Times said that the agency did not accept his offer as withdrawn as its terms and conditions and demanded unreasonable compensation. In 2012, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of India complaining about the way the agency’s scientists were being treated. In 2013, he said that he had spent months trying to create an alternative business plan for CSIR, but received no response from the agency. He wrote a paper about the situation that was not just circulated to journalists, but to the prime minister and wrote about his situation to the journalists, and wrote to the PM. In 2014, he published a book about the coronavirus; spreading conspiracy theories about the cause of coronav virus; promoting unfounded COVID-19 treatments; and campaigning to fire Anthony Fauci for allegedly being a so-called ‘deep state’ actor. In 2007, he won the Fulbright U.N. Student Program grant to study the integration of Siddha, a system of traditional medicine developed in South India, with modern systems biology. He was awarded a Fulbrighters’ award for his thesis focusing on modeling the whole cell by integrating molecular pathway models, with his thesis on Siddha.
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