[2] He tours the country conducting workshops to promote scientific temper and showing people how to debunk godmen and frauds.

He has conducted over 2000 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece, England, Norway, Denmark, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

But when a Bengaluru-based astrologer Shankar Hegde made claims to predict the election results accurately, he received the challenge.

Through the organisation named Aid Without Religion which was registered in July 2011, he has been helping people and institutions where there are no religious rituals, superstitious practices, unscientific systems of medicine and such supernatural beliefs.

During the early morning hours, while on his way to the Mangala swimming pool in his car, he was approached by two unidentified men in a bike wearing helmets and hinted that his tyres were punctured.

An unfazed Nayak suspected foul play and with a great presence of mind drove all the way to a nearby gas station and saw that everything was in order.

Nayak suspected that this attempt on his life could possibly be the repercussions to his fight for the justice of the slain RTI activist Vinayak Baliga, who was murdered exactly a year previous to this episode.

In addition, he states that the relatively low death rate from COVID in India has been falsely attributed to the use of homeopathic medicines as preventative.

When asked what should be done about the use of alternative medicines in India, he said, flatly, “They should be banned.”[20][21] Nayak advocates that more people should be taught to perform the so-called miracles of godmen.

[26] Nayak was the guest of honour during the launch event of the book Bandh Samrat - Tales of Eternal Rebel written on George Fernandes's early trade union activities in Mangalore and Bombay [27]