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Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

Exporting risk

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I’m torn between admitting that our cynicism about scientists’ solutions for the pandemic is warranted and the palliative […]

April 10, 2021 Op-eds, Science

COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem

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At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the […]

March 21, 2021 Scicomm

Anti-softening science for the state

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The group of ministers (GoM) report on “government communication” has recommended that the government promote “soft topics” in […]

March 6, 2021 Op-eds, Scicomm, Science

Magic bridges

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The last two episodes of the second season of House, the TV series starring Hugh Laurie as a misanthropic […]

March 1, 2021 Analysis, Science

Pandemic: Science > politics?

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By Mukunth and Madhusudhan Raman Former Union health secretary K. Sujatha Rao had a great piece in The […]

January 19, 2021 Analysis, Op-eds, Science

A future obscured by exponential growth

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A couple months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I think most of us realised how hard it is to […]

October 17, 2020 Science

India’s missing research papers

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If you’re looking for a quantification (although you shouldn’t) of the extent to which science is being conducted […]

August 9, 2020 Science

The number of deaths averted

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What are epidemiological models for? You can use models to inform policy and other decision-making. But you can’t […]

June 10, 2020 Analysis, Science

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