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Misleading Media – The story of Hannan Binth Hashim

A few weeks ago, Many Techies has got forward mails about a wonder girl- A teenage girl from kerala named – “Hannan Binth Hashim”. The news was about a prodigy girl, who is appreciated by many well known scientists and graduated from ‘NASA’ by the age of 14. She is calling herself as an astrophysicist and claiming to prove Albert Einstein is wrong!!!. A lots of discussions were made among the tech community about this news, and finally here is the truth.

Hanan Binth Hashim is a 14 yr old class X student from Kozhikode, Kerala. There are amzaing reports about her unbelievable achievements on some websites which has created a sort of frenzy on the Indian sphere of the Web. Some excerps from the articles on Hannan Binth Hashim.

* Her works have been appreciated by former President A P J Abdul Kalam, scientists at IISc, IIMSc and many leading research institutes around the world including NASA.
* “I’m already in touch with President Obama and am looking forward to meeting him. He has always been a source of inspiration for me.
* “Absolute Theory of Zero is a new mathematical system which explains the established theories in a different light. Through the theory I’m trying to explain that the speed of light is not constant always,” she explains.
* Hanaan believes that the conditions in Venus are conducive to sustain life.”Scientists should overcome the atmospheric challenges of Venus and should be willing to probe more. Like Mars, which we believe can sustain life, Venus too is a promising planet,” she said and added that the scientific community should accept that the universe is constantly changing.

One website screams “SPEED OF LIGHT IS NOT CONSTANT!! NEW THEORY BY 14 YEAR OLD INDIAN GIRL”. Another says “Hannan Binth Hashim: A 14-year-old with astrophysicists”.

Let’s try to analyze the Hannan Binth Hashim phenomenon, is she an astrophysics genius or nothing more than stupid media exaggeration.

1. There’s nothing called “IIMSc”. Probably they meant “IMSc”. See how credible media is.
2. Why haven’t any reputed science journals/magazines published about her theory yet? As Wikipedia would do it, Citation Needed – atleast from one of the IISc journals.
3. Where is the proof of appreciation by A P J Abdul Kalam, the scientists at IISc and Barack Obama?
4. As far as I know, there’s nothing called “American Journal of Theoretical Physics”. If it exists, probably it’s a homebrew journal.
5. “Hanaan believes that the conditions in Venus are conducive to sustain life. “Scientists should overcome the atmospheric challenges of Venus and should be willing to probe more. Like Mars, which we believe can sustain life, Venus too is a promising planet,” she said and added that the scientific community should accept that the universe is constantly changing.” I am a firm believer of extra-terrestrial life, but you shouldn’t take my personal opinion of life on pluto – just like that. We, as human civilization, don’t have enough knowledge about the planets in the solar system to say whethere life-as-we-know can exist there or not.
6. Is she into astrophysics or theoretical physics?
7. Isn’t Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology competition open only to US nationals?
8. As reported in June 2009, “Astrophysics and 14-year-olds may seem like a ‘paradox’, but the future and present will co-exist when Hannan Binth Hashim delivers her lecture on astrophysics at Universities of Boston, Chicago, Texas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 17 others across the world. Hannan’s six-monthlong cruise will begin this July.”, is there any video of her lectures?
9. “Absolute Theory of Zero” sounds like a name right out of the imagination of an uneducated comic book writer.

Hannan Binth Hashim looks more like an average class X student with a great interest in science, esp Astrophysics, who also happens to admire A P J Abdul Kalam and Barack Obama, and probably quite active in science seminars and projects at Kozhikode – but nothing more than that. 98.9% of her achievements seems to be media manufactured.

We congratulate the entire blog/tech community, who took this issue, and made researches and proved the truth behind this hoax.

check out the links below:

http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/2009/09/hannan-enquiery-into-truth.html

http://bhairavan.in/narmabhumi/ ( malayalam)

http://pillasar.blogspot.com/2009/09/hannan-binth-hashim-hoax-or-true-story.html

       

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  1. She is a fake, and making the claims with out any maturity. its a comedy to listen her ( one of the video footage was there in manorama online sometimes back. but later they removed that).

    She is just making some stupid theories with out any proof. just like even i can make some statements like there is life in mars. and i met one mars resident named chandran last week,on chaala market!

    WTF??

    people should kick the reporter who wrote this report in the media

  2. After going thru all this I was reminded of comedy Serial “Mungeri Lal ki hassen sapne” ! As a counter to Einsteins’s theory of relativity, he wrote ” Theory of absurdity”! Once in a while you hear about Indian Child prodigies A Bihar boy was whisked away by NASA because of his techno briliance . Nobody heard any thing about him!

    Then there was this software prodigy 13 yrs whom Microsoft considered to be so brilliant that they have shut down business. If you send any crap theory to a well known scientist, his secretary will send an encouraging reply like “this theory is very intersting ” etc . If U show this to a reporter he will conjure up a story! A colleaue of mine, who thought he can put Einstein & his chorts in the witness stand wrote aletter explaining his (crap) theory to a Nobel Lauraete, Physisist who sent him a innocuous letter. This fellow was running around with that letter & how he could outwitt even Nobel laureates !! THis fellow was in his late twenties at that time .

    NO wonder if children like Hashim crave for some publicity .But the media should have been more careful . Another leading Malyalam daily front paged that an American swallowed 16 dogs in 5 minutes!! Hot dogs were translated as DOGS!! So much for care in reporting .

  3. It seems like an attempt to get some sponsors for her further study and to get publicity. But the tall claims and the importance given to the story by the newspaper puts things different.

    But one thing is important, no news came in any leading newspapers negating the story. The internet reaches only a few,someone within the scientific community has to write an article on this fake story in any one the leading dailies or magazines. otherwise the story will be believed as genuine by millions ( the readership is that much).

  4. What a great joke?

    HOW CAN SOMEONE CAN JOIN M.I.T after completing SSLC from kerala?

    hahahaha…

    This statement itself proves it is a big HOAX and media is responsible for this bullshit.

  5. pinne angane anenkil nale thottu ellarum SSLC kazinju MIT il padikkan pokumallo….

    priyappetta software engineersey, ningal chummathe BTECH MCA oke padichu samayam kalanjallo….

    pathaam tharam kazinju nere angu MIT ilo hawards ilo vallom poyi padichu koodayirunno..???

    Ival Hanaan alla…HANUMAAN aaanu..HANUMAAAN….

  6. she is a fake. her parents are trying to make such hoaxes and expecitng some fund for her higher studies. but whatever the media is telling is bull shit, and it can be verified by anyone with common sense.

    Who wrote such an article in media? i heaerd mathrubhoomi published it first.

  7. What a nonsense? how can a 15 year girl can prove Einstien is wrong? does she knows any mathematics which can make a proof of e=mc^2.

    she is making wild claims and those are came up from a immature mind.

    Media should be questioned to propagate such misleading news to public and the science world.

  8. The achievements claimed by Hanan is highly exaggerated She designed a rocket to Mars and Nasa tested it. Nasa is still designing a rocket to moon that will be able to send men to moon in 2020.

    It requires lot of knowledge in Aeronautics, thermodynamics,electronics, communications and aerospace engineering to design a rocket. Malayalam newspaper Mathrubhumi also published many things about her with out sound verification

  9. As already pointed out, the “Space School Graduate” is not a degree. Nasa Space center at Houston is an organization to promote interest in space study among youngsters. The degree they give is only informal. Anyone ready to participate in their activities for a few days may get it. The Space Center have rocket modeler software with which one can design a model and launch it provided one is willing to pay money. These things are nothing extraordinary. Definitely Miss Hannan’s parents must have known it.

    2. Reports mention several “mentors” of Miss Hannan. One of them is Prof. Jayanth Murthy of Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Murthy admits that Miss Hannan has visited IIA library but clarifies that he hasn’t had any scientific discussion with her

  10. This is an entirely fabricated crap. Anyone who is even remotely knowledgeable about physics and the scientific world and community can verify easily that this girl’s ‘accomplishments’ and ”achievements’ and ‘recomendations” is fabricated. Sadly, it is becoming all too common to see con artists enter the scientific world to cheat the public for the sake of money.

    This girl’s family might have deliberately cooked up the girl’s accomplishments to cheat Indian well-wisher’s and investor’s out of money, using her as a bait. With much publicity and hype, there must have already been people to send her family money and offers to help fund this ”genius’s” studies and trips abroad, help her family, and meet her financial needs, etc. Thats how the racket works.

    Unfortunately, it is the gullible Indian public that gets taken for a ride. Because, this family’s racket will mainly target the poor Indian public for their scam. I have to hand it to the Indian media – they manage to come

  11. I checked to see the facts, using simple google search . Name of the mentor if you search (Hind Rathan award winner Dr Somya Vishwanathan – she is a medical doctor not a physicist and that too in the US ). Same with other things mentioned.

    The physics journal that is mentioned in the below article does not exist. The contest mentioned is only for American Citizens. So you can also please verify the facts yourself.

    1 . There is nothing called American Institute of theoretical physics or American Journal of theoritical physics (The news says that she is publishing her works in that journal).

    2. There is no sign of any reputed Science Journals or Magazines published about her theory yet (Do a simple google search, all you can find is the replicas of the news came in Indian express and nothing else like a Scientific paper or anything like that).

    3. I couldn’t find any proof of appreciation by APJ Abdul Kalam, Brak Obama or any other

  12. The very credentials of the mentor of this girl Dr.Soumya Vasudevan are suspect. It is claimed that she is a “Hind Rattan” award winner gives rise to these doubts. Such awards are often given on payment and are presented at ceremonies in which some well known public figures participate many of us in public life do receive such notifications that we have been ‘selected’ for such. Again, the Dr. title too should be verified. I am sure that this girl has been motivated by some one to put forward these claims and we need not go far to see who has done that

  13. ee koch oru mahaaa kalli aanallo…

  14. http://connect.in.com/hannan-binth-hashim/article-14yrold-girl-going-places-with-astrophysics-e8a31ba8dbbfdfa37919ccd83c7bd2a60677afa4.html

    see the above link, to see how the expressbuzz( the indian express product is glorified the Absolute theory of stupidity by Hannan )

  15. Ival oru padicha kalli thanne.. kollunna raajavinu thinnunna manthri enna poley kure media mandanmaarum.

  16. The newspaper establishment should be sued for publishing fabricated news to deceive the public.

    anyone is ready for that?

  17. Last Sep 14, Mathrubhumi ran Headlines about this girl Hanan –

    Who is capable enough to question the theories of Einstein-
    Who left our great Sceintist Abdul Kalam clueless about what she is talking about
    Who got special invitation by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in US
    Who designed rockets for NASA
    About The list of her admirers ranging from Barack Obama to Neil Armstrong
    Queen of Qatar seems to be her regular visitor
    About the support she receives from Tennis star Roger Federer
    Sponsorship offers from Wipro , Infosys and Google

    These were the few ‘FACTS’ penned down by the Mathrubhumi reporter for the readers to digest.The reporter have no second thoughts in the fact that once Hanan’s ‘Theory of Absolute Zero’ is published Sceintific community will throw Einsteins Thery of Relativity in Dust bin!

    Several English Media also carried the story, Kerala Government too came with all support – After going through this suspicious report an IIT student contacted the Editor of the English daily which carried the report and demanded an apology for fooling the public by printing such fake stories.The Editor in Chief contacted the reporter and asked him to provide the proof. The poor reporter contacted Mathrubhumi reporter and managed to collect the phone number of the girl.

    After trying to contact several times he made contact – The first request from her side was – Will you please help me to find some sponsors? The reporter who wrote lavishly about her high flying contacts,fans and admirers recieved his first jolt. No Wipro, No Enfosysis, No Google, No Queen of Qatar neither Roger Federer is around to help her now!

    When he asked her about the certificate from MIT- After repeated request she gave him a routine acknowledgement letter send by MIT which they send after receiving an application! She also complains that no one is helping her because she belongs to a Minority Religion!

    When enquired about the geniunity of Hanan to Abdul Kalam, Former President of India following is the reply we got from his PA

    “Reference your mail addressed to Dr Kalam. He has not authenticated any paper from any student. According to him, If any paper has to be recognised it has to be published in scienticfic journals/magazines and debated in scientific forums”

    Does Mathrubhumi expects it’s readers to ring Obama, Neil Armstrong, Roger Federer or Abdul Kalam to confirm whether the news is true? Even after this many days Mathrubhumi
    haven’t even shown the audacity to admit their mistake and apologize to it’s readers for taking them on a ride.

  18. Mathrubhoomi poley ulla news papers ban cheyyanam

  19. Thanks for whomever written this article for mentioning my article 🙂

    and here is the latest news on this, Matrubhumi Apologized for misleading its readers with wrong information, see the link here.

    And thanks again for all those who supported..

  20. I saw many blogs and articles praising her, idiots she is a total fraud and fake stories. Why popular medias like mathrubhumi and manorama supporting her

  21. The entire credibility of malayalam daily mathrubhumi is spoiled by a single news like this. the editor who published this news is identified as sisy jacob. how can she publish such a stupid news with out any ground to the highly educated people like keralites?

    Mathrubhumi should apologize to the entire readers for committing such a blunder.

    I know many people stopped reading mathrubhumi after this incident.

  22. If it’s a HOAX are we sure that is it done by she herself ? i dont think so, just my personal opinion. Could it just be practical prank played by one of her rival ????

  23. She is such a silly girl studying in her 10th. So she alone cannot do this prank. We can’t blame her or her parents for this.

    But the media is responsible for this. the reporter who collected such false details, the editor who verified and given permission to publish it in the first page of such a very reputed daily is an unforgivable mistake.

    What credibility has that media right now? How we can trust a news which is published by such media? They spoiled the entire trust and goodwill and once again proved that media is just a monkey business.

  24. Blloodie Bullshits…,,,,everyone for who co-operated writing this article…She will be der to paste ever sticking plasters on ur mouth..bc”oz the kid has lot more ways to go..I dont agree to media..Bcoz they are total bullshits ..bullies..They just earn money by rubbish/…Exactly this is not the way Hanaan has to gain publicity..Media made her wrong..and she has ntmade them wrong..I wish I could have connected to Hanaan earlier .
    @ Suman : I agree with you..What has this kid go to do all for you are only wise-enough for saying.. ..and I believe she will achieve.&.Prove herself..Hanaan from all these deminished creatures..for those who havent been a support and talking rubbish about you..U need to do the same thing i told you now..
    Please if you dont mind,get me ur contact address , I would be glad 2 talk to u!

  25. This story has been going on since April (in a slightly different name), as time goes on stories are just getting more elaborate to address the objections (like the eligibility of Westinghouse competition). Appears to be a deliberate effort.

    Please see here – from April 21, 2009
    http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/teen-test-einstein-theory-736

  26. Hannan doesn’t know even the basics of physics and mathematics. she is such a small kid, living in a fantasy. Let her learn science and mathematics more, like a PHD, and then study about the einsteen and darvin, then only she will get the ability to understand their theories and postulates.

    Now it is just another media bullshit, and responsible persons are Anula Abubaker from Indian express, and Cicy Jacob from mathrubhumi. You have to sue them for spreading such a prank. What you girls think about the people out of here? Do you have any common sense? Bullshit and total waste, pity of you….

  27. Comment From Reji T Nair on My facebook Post

    Prof. Jayant Murthy of The Indian Institute of Astrophysics – her
    ‘mentor’ has responded to an email inquiry thus:

    “Thanks for forwarding this link to me. I will also post my comment in
    that site itself. This girl came to see me some months ago and told me
    that she had this theory that Einstein was wrong and that Kalam was
    impressed by her theory… Read more. She also had a writeup in the
    Indian Express (if I remember right). I told her that the press and
    Presidents were easily impressed but that ground breaking theories do
    not come from school kids – they just don’t have the mathematics and
    physics tools necessary. I advised her to continue her interest in
    science but that she should work hard to learn everything necessary
    and that I would be glad to help her where possible. That is the limit
    of my contact with her (other than one more brief visit and email
    exchange). This is what I do for any student who contacts me and have
    done for dozens of students.”

    “I am not her mentor and have no knowledge of her work. If anyone were
    to ask me, I would say that I do not believe in her “theory” but am
    happy to see her so interested in science. After this latest episode,
    I am much less forgiving and would believe that her story is a tissue
    of lies from beginning to end.

    Again, thanks … Read morefor this link. Someone had forward the
    Malayalam paper where it first appeared and I had written to them as
    well as this girl but this site gives me the chance to make it
    public.”

    He also commented on Following 2 news Items

    http://arunachalnews.com/hannan-binth-hashim-astrophysics-genius-or-m

    http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26

    I dont know why Mathrubhumi , Indian Express and Other media who
    Published this hoax are lagging to correct it.

  28. Come on, this is a very funny story. I laughed hard reading this.

  29. We can blame the media, and may be even her parents, but I think we should go easy on her. She is just a 14 year old girl, who is expressing her scientific interests. From all I read, I do not see any false statements from her, velocity of light may not be constant, big bang may have little to do with the universe, and evolution must be reevaluated – these are all possibilities. She said “scientists should overcome atmospheric problems in Venus”, which is a statement on hope. Venus at least has an atmosphere, Mars does not and really does not have a magnetic field to protect atmosphere and people from cosmic rays. If scientists are crazy enough to think about living in Mars with all these difficulties, then I think possibility of living in Venus may not be any more difficult (at lest you do not get cosmic rays down on the surface with a thick atmosphere). Everything else are statements by the reporter, not hers. So, I think it is a bit too much to criticize her.

  30. One more thing, I read repeated reference to someone in Canada Moffat proposing velocity of light to be different long ago, and so her proposal is not new. Long before Einstein, Maxwell proposed that velocity of light is a constant – does that diminish Einstein’s work?

  31. Dear Suma Nair,

    I’m Kuttappan, and here is my statements.

    Aliens are there, and they are living in some other planet in this universe.

    Newtons second law may be correct or incorrect in SUN.

    See, According to your argument, all these things are correct, now i’m a scientist, please secure me an admission in MIT, and NASA.

    Anybody can bluff about anything, does it mean they are the scientists?

    Scientific findings should be proved properly, other than just these kind of statements. and Nobody can challenge any of the scientific theories with out deep understanding of science and mathematics.

    Hannan is a scientific coward!

  32. Dear Kuttappan,

    My point is that Hannan has not said anything about NASA or MIT or called herself a scientist (she was not quoted saying any of that). If we read the report very carefully, statements related to NASA, MIT and naming her as an astrophysicist are characterizations by the reporter, not quotes that can be directly attributed to Hannan.

  33. Even Hannan does not declared anything by herself, the media reporters done it for her. agreed, so do you think the media reporters can guess and write anything about a person? i don’t think so. Hannan/her family might have told something to them and the media reporters exaggerated that and published that.

  34. Dear friends

    This Hanan is a fake

    When this news appeared in Mathribumi
    september 14th I contacted Her school
    principal . Principals name sister Jovita
    St. Joseph’s Anglo – Indian Girls’ Higher Secondary School
    CALICUT KERALA

    PHONE 0495-2366932

    The principal said she is a 10 th class student
    of this school and she talked very nicely

    Then these contraversis started

    Few days back( December 16th ) I contacted the Pincipal
    She says this student Hanan left the school
    one year back when she was in 9th class
    I was shocked

    Then immediately the principal disconnected
    the phone

    Another intresting thing is the school has
    completely changed their web site after this
    Hanan contraversy .All news about Hanan is
    deleted from the web site of school why ?

    I request all readers contact the school
    principal Sister Jovite 0495- 2366932
    and bring out the truth

  35. Latheesh,

    After reading what was claimed to be Hannan’s posting (see below), I may have to agree with you. She says it was not all a media hype. At least in part, she played a role, it appears, in this fiasco. Her parents and media did the rest. Seems like she is not even going to school now. Sad story.
    *****
    Hanaan Bint Hashim Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 7:26 am

    I,Hanaan Bint Hashim, is writing to all the above,
    Without my permission there were few authors who published it, and with whom I gave refernce to,They have even made few statement as fake.,and even I agree to that.I have done a theory all thats true,and even been to NASA and delivererd presentations too!.But the media exxxagerated and made it feel people to be fake.But totally it ws nt a media hype.I state it because I have done my research work individually.

    Few corrections you can see here is that:
    The media published it as IIMSC but it is IMSC ( Indian Institute of Mathematical Science),Chennai

    and its not American Journal of Theoretical Physics,see its American Journal of Physics,I have nt stopped working on my research,as a 14 year old girl,I will have my own limitations obviously,I will continuing working on my research,and hope to yield a good result very soon

    This is the proof I can produce for American Journal of Physics
    http://scitation.aip.org/ajp/
    CHK THIS out.

    Thanks Hanaan Bint Hashim

  36. Suma,

    Thanks for the details, But the website, http://scitation.aip.org welcomes us with a description about tehmselves.

    Welcome to The American Journal of Physics (AJP) Online. AJP publishes papers that meet the needs and intellectual interests of college and university physics teachers and students. Articles provide a deeper understanding of physics topics taught at the undergraduate and graduate level

    So this is just a place to discuss the physics and related things in the school clasess by teachers and students, and nothing important as she claimed ( not a research institute or anything related to NASA ). its just like a lobour India related publication.

    Also where is the link for her work in that website? i searched with all possible keywords like Hannan binth hashim, absolute theory of zero, india etc..and NOTHING FOUND!!!!!!!

    do you mean that there is a website like that, or Hannan published something in that website? if so please provide the link for her work….

    She is an absolute fake….

  37. sfg,

    She had a post here:
    http://arunachalnews.com/hannan-binth-hashim-astrophysics-genius-or-media-bullshit.html/comment-page-2#comment-2173

    Also there is a post by Jayant Murthy, from IIA, who she claimed to have worked with her.

    After reading these posts, I had to change my opinion. I think she played at least a partial (and significant) role in this publicity drive.

    I did not check the journal until you pointed out – it does not look like a real scientific journal, but many of the authors are university faculty members. The impact factor is low, around 0.7, so, I think you are probably correct about the journal. In any case, her work is not in there, so there is no point anyway.

  38. She has indeed met President Abdul Kalam – see the picture here:

    http://sciencelokam.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_13.html

    Surprising why the president was so impressed to meet her.

  39. From:
    http://talkislam.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/quantum-physics-confirms-islam/

    *****
    MAY be other religion can fight against Islam.but all the non believers will see that islam is only truth. And I am nt rejecting any religion, islam is the best, islam shows what is right. and no-one can be against it, no one can be against allah , even non-believers,will believe in allah. evry religion will praise islam. I dont want any feedback.this is true,the perfect, and special note for all non believers, science is just a testing of quranic concepts.and not quranic concepts are proven by science, almost 80%. I never forces people to convert your religion to islam, but this could be best.nt bcoz i am a muslim, but I feel the divine power of allah ,that made for all non-believers not to stick to convictions.there is no need of proof for existence of allah.he is one.and just see the universe around, therois around, yet no theories have bcome most comprehensible with quran.trust in allah -almighty,because he exists.DIVINE POWER.
    i just hate other religion criticising islam,that should nt be done, not that this religion should be called liars,there cn be , but not all muslims,dont use unneccesary language or discourage muslims in their belief in allah.
    If u cant comprehend the infiniteness of allah , how can you comprehend the infiniteness of creator if you cant divide infinity into 2/3, how can you believe in his trinity/? where is all mathematcians,scientists in his oneness.
    pls nt: other religions might not know islam well, so does the non-believers.you may feel to argue, but therse is no point,you will recognize,and please dont blabber over facts on islam which you dont know.
    speak what is right.
    reffering to marks comment.you have said, allah is light. yeah tthts rite.light is energy.but allah is not reduced to state of light.he is force,the singularity.absolute extreme absolute force, and not like ordinary forces.u gt me? believe it.
    regards
    Hanaan
    Hanaan Bint Hashim – April 19, 2009 at 10:55 pm

  40. My five year old son last month proved Fermat’s theorem in two simple steps. How do I get him some publicity?

  41. We have our own similar scandals here in the U.S. which have yet to come to light. One was the bogus claims made in the 2004 Siemens science competition for invention of a NEW alternative energy technology that, in fact, was over 25 years old! Not only were the (so called) “expert judges” completely duped that year, but all those in the media were as well (well … that’s not really so hard to believe). It remains to be seen if Siemens will ever fess up to this fiasco, or if the media is going to be willing to go back and check that one out again. I suspect it is just too embarrassing for everyone involved. Those curious about this can just check what was claimed in the 2004 press releases regarding this supposedly “new technology”.

    I think it is very important that science scams and/or bogus science stories, in particular, get ferreted out as quickly as possible because people (and the media) tend to trust scientists far more than ordinary people – and that’s the way it should, hopefully, remain. If scientists lose credibility (as was recently the case with climate change research) then we are in serious trouble! For this reason the 2004 Siemens science competition scandal is another one that still needs to be exposed. Besides which the other students involved need to be made aware of what happened and why they may not have been fairly judged.

  42. This is the condition of the stupid world at present….Why can’t u guys accept, if not try to do yourself, something as brilliant as what Hannan has done?

    Jealousy has no medicine, dears…
    Learn to accept what others have done, then try to find out what a hoax actually is…If you are having the time to print this bullshit article, why don’t do it in a relevant way so that the majority of the media games are exposed..??
    How many issues are there in the world that you can call MEDIA HOAX>???

    You people won’t learn things…Accept the facts, and May God Be With Us All….

    PS..The writer is a big fool…IIMSc is Indian Institute of Medical Sciences…

  43. Ashfak,

    we can understand your feelings, but we should accept the facts. appreciate the people who is dare to say this.

    anyway Hannan story proved as a hoax, and we are not against that poor child. but against the media who can make a goat as an elephant.

  44. I feel that this is not a hoax story..its good to support her..bcoz though the criticims has come,sure something good for long is waiting for her..May be during her undergrad studies,also she can come up,she can come up with more tutoring,.its sure a 15 year old wil hv her own limits..but privately feel..HANAAN..the world is waiting for you to come up..I dont know which field you will excel..may b in all..or in just one or two..but be it yourself..and make this come true…research hard and publish it..
    AZHAR from BANDRA

  45. good luck Hanaan..!:))..

  46. Come on guys, if so what difference it makes with Hannan than any other child in our India?

    If we provide them enough help and guidance, anyone can raise up. but the case of Hannan is a lil bit different.

    This is just any school exhibitions, and she is claiming that she is graduated from NASA and NASA is using her ROCKET(Hahaha!).

    I feel pity on you people, still believing all these shits and hoaxes and wishing her another happy hoax future.

    If you are really concerned with her, just make her and her parents to understand the importance of studies science and mathematics before making such wild claims.

    Our scientists and other experts and spending millions of money and equipments and another latest study materials and still they are finding new things. among them how can this 10th std child can make such big theories without any grounds?

    Anyone can make such claims even you can, or I can. but there should be some stuff, instead of these kind of stupidity.

    If she wanted to learn the space science, please finish your schools, then join for a graduation in related subjects, go for a PG and then for a PHD. there you can research about your interest with the help of the experts and equipments. then you have to find new theories and prove with the help of the science.

    till then, my dear poor child Hannan you a are a cheap HOAX!!!

  47. I value her talents, if she got some. But I hate this cheap publicity.

  48. shihab mohammad

    You said it… This is very cheap publicity