Not medical device: Deepinder Goyal on chatter around Temple
New Delhi: Deepinder Goyal, founder of Zomato, who now works in deep-tech, on Thursday, November 5, responded to the buzz around the wearable, Temple, taking to X to address the speculation surrounding the venture.
While his explanation was dismissed as a “word salad”, Goyal nevertheless sought to clarify the thinking behind it.
It is worth noting that a section of the medical fraternity on X has pointed out that Temple, a Rs 85,000 wearable, only tracks facial blood flow via the superficial temporal artery, not true brain flow, and questions the high price without solid proof.
Hitting back at “Concerned Indian Doctors”, Goyal put forth a point-wise explanation.
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) November 5, 2026
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day,…
He said if Temple were a scam, “people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns.” He added that he has invested USD 20 million of his own money into it and “a scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.”
He said he left his Eternal CEO role because he wanted to get “the science right”. “At some point, you have to stick your neck out and say, ‘We believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use.’ We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.”
He insisted that all their claims were verifiable. “Last but not least, the most groundbreaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors,” he wrote.
Later, as an afterthought, he added another post saying, “Temple is a fitness tracker and wellness device. We are not a medical device. If at some point, we clinically validate any of our metrics, we will let you know.”
‘No real evidence, no proof’
Meanwhile, one of his loudest critics, Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, who goes by TheLiverDoc on X, responded to Goyal.
“As expected, he has written a word salad. This man has provided no real evidence or proof that his device, which he is selling for INR 85,000, can measure and interpret brain flow from a superficial artery (superficial temporal artery – which is an extracranial artery – meaning a blood vessel placed entirely outside the skull, supplying blood to the side of the face, temple, and scalp regions).
He wrote that Goyal’s Science Lead has accepted that Temple isn’t proven to measure brain flow as claimed on their website.
“The device can only measure blood flow and flushing to the face in humans and has absolutely NOTHING to do with the brain, as they claim. This is the issue, not what can happen in the future. The device itself fails its primary objective,” he wrote.
“There is no our science and your science. But there is bad science, fringe science, and science fraud, and Team Temple embraced all of these,” he said
The founder of the wearable device Temple, Mr. Deepinder Goyal (who has blocked me on Twitter) has now put out an official statement regarding concerns raised by the medical community on the said device being a scam.
— TheLiverDoc™ (@theliverdoc) November 5, 2026
As expected, he has written a word salad. This man has… pic.twitter.com/V0Dlh0S3i2
TheLiverDoc insisted that Temple device is a scam. “There is no doubt about it. The question is however, how long can this man and his team keep defrauding people under the garb of ‘we are spending millions for you’, ‘we are trying our best’, or ‘we are taking the risk’ kind of responses?”
These farts in the windtunnel responses are not what is expected from a company who’s website claims “solid science”. There is solid fraud though – pathetic little businessmen.
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