When Research Money Is Scarce, Should It Fund Cow Urine Papers?
Shardool Katyayan | 01 July 2026 | Newslaundry
Cow urine can fight off the Chikungunya virus.
Cow urine’s chemical compounds make it an important agricultural and medicinal product.
These may sound like claims on a fringe website. But they actually are central arguments of research carried out by the country’s premier scientific institutions under SUTRA-PIC – short for Scientific Utilisation through Research Augmentation, Prime Products from Indigenous Cows.
Both are now being reassessed by the journals that published them – ACS Publications and Springer Nature – after complaints by Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, known online as The Liver Doc….