# Shiva Ayyadurai is a Criminal Lunatic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722 "2020-04-13T19:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/1 "2020-04-13T19:59:37Z")
People have started passing around video clips of this guy: [Shiva Ayyadurai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai). Here’s his [website](https://vashiva.com). Until now, he was known for claiming he invented email and running for the Senate in Massachusetts with the tagline “MIT PhD for US Senate”. Marketing at its peak. Now he’s become the darling of Fox News and the Right Wing. He spouts out shit like this, “[Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Truth Freedom & Health. Vs. Fear Fauci & Fascism](https://youtu.be/2Psbv9xqI_M)”. Fauci is a dangerous madman, you see, and if we all just took Vitamin C, and D, and B, and something else, well, we’d be fine. There is no danger from COVID-19. We don’t need a vaccine. BIG PHARMA is conducting a scam on a worldwide basis to make bank. Fuck. this. guy. He’s obviously smart. I can only conclude that he’s willfully being deceptive for the press coverage. MIT should be ashamed that they ever admitted him, let alone gave him a degree of any kind. The very least of his sins is that he is playing into this horrible false narrative and people are going to get killed because of it. May he lose ignominiously. May his dreams fail. May he die alone and unmourned. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/2 "2020-04-13T20:14:09Z")
If you think what’s he saying is stupid, try reading the chat replay. My eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/3 "2020-04-13T20:15:31Z")
What are the chances that Massachusetts, of all places, would elect this guy? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/4 "2020-04-13T20:27:17Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Now he’s become the darling of Fox News and the Right Wing. Also [Facebook bots](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ninajankowicz/elizabeth-warren-senate-campaign-shiva-ayyadurai-facebook) and [Alex Jones](https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0ONtb2Np/mit-scientist-claims-coronavirus-is-a-deep-state-fraud). There’s more evidence that he’s a pawn of Moscow than there is that [the head of the WHO is a pawn of Beijing](https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-tom-cotton-world-health-organization-coronavirus-china). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/5 "2020-04-13T20:28:46Z")
So he’s is pro Trump, running in the GOP, appealing to MAGATS with his conspiracy theories and snake oil treatments… [no… wait… stop…](https://youtu.be/W9ZD3_ppcPE?t=23) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/6 "2020-04-13T20:39:57Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > If you think what’s he saying is stupid, try reading the chat replay. My eyes. It’s really awful. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/7 "2020-04-13T20:41:50Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So he’s is pro Trump, running in the GOP, appealing to MAGATS with his conspiracy theories and snake oil treatments… [no… wait… stop…](https://youtu.be/W9ZD3_ppcPE?t=23) Yes, I know. Saying a Trump supporter is stupid is redundant. I just think this one is dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/8 "2020-04-13T20:49:41Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Yes, I know. Saying a Trump supporter is stupid is redundant. I just think this one is dangerous. I know it isn’t safe to assume that Trump supporters are the only ones who’ll pay for their own ignorance, but part of me is all… what if Sam Harris is right? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/9 "2020-04-13T21:47:47Z")
What he dated Fran Drescher, so random… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/10 "2020-04-13T23:41:41Z")
I see that Shiva Ayyadurai is also an anti-GMOer and [antivaxer](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/shiva-ayyadurai-antivaxxer-for-senate/). With that level of crank magnetism, his Senate campaign could see significant crossover support. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/11 "2020-04-13T23:52:55Z")
> [@pool](#): > > What he dated Fran Drescher, so random… And Fox News commentators claim to oppose the “Nanny State”. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/12 "2020-04-14T00:36:38Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Until now, he was known for claiming he invented email and running for the Senate in Massachusetts with the tagline “MIT PhD for US Senate”. The slogan that he’s more known for is “Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.” This was in reference to Elizabeth Warren. I see his slogan on an old school bus with his campaign ads on the side still parked alongside Concord Ave in Cambridge. Yeah, he’s pretty much a shitstain. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/13 "2020-04-14T01:52:44Z")
Wow, he invented the internet when he was 14. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/14 "2020-04-14T01:59:24Z")
Before I jump in on this pile-on, can someone explain to me how this dude is any different in his positions than, say, **Jim Peebles**? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/15 "2020-04-14T02:02:45Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Before I jump in on this pile-on, can someone explain to me how this dude is any different in his positions than, say, **Jim Peebles**? No one is listening to Peebles, for one thing. He’s just some crank on a message board. This guy is getting his message out to the gullible. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/16 "2020-04-14T03:10:00Z")
**Jim** is a crank on a message board. This asshole is on Fox News, and his videos are getting passed all over social media. ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/17 "2020-04-14T03:17:21Z")
Yeah, he seems to have Narcissistic personality disorder. A pathological attention whore. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/18 "2020-04-14T06:12:09Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > May he lose ignominiously. May his dreams fail. May he die alone and unmourned. I wish I knew who put this very curse on me, and could defeat them before it becomes too late, Aahyoo? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/19 "2020-04-14T22:59:40Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > May he lose ignominiously. May his dreams fail. May he die alone and unmourned. BTW, if this wasn’t very inappropriate for most threads (and I didn’t have an issue with accidentally including my signature when I don’t mean to), this would totally be my signature. I actually looked it up to see if you were quoting someone, but didn’t find anything. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722/20 "2020-04-15T00:51:50Z")
If you think Shiva is bad, you should see the rest of the clowns that keep getting elected in the Commonwealth… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722.md?page=2)