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Tag: scientific literature

The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science

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Primacy is a false virtue imposed by the structures of modern science – yet it is also necessary to right some wrongs.

March 28, 2022 Analysis, Science

The forgotten first lives of India’s fauna

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Prof. Biju said the Rohanixalus is the 20th recognised genus of the family Rhacophoridae that comprises 422 known […]

November 13, 2020 Culture, Science

The passive is political

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If Saruman is the stupid shit people say, I have often found Grima Wormtongue is the use of […]

September 30, 2020 Culture, Op-eds

The costs of correction

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I was slightly disappointed to read a report in the New York Times this morning. Entitled ‘Two Huge […]

June 6, 2020 Science

Poor journalism is making it harder for preprints

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There have been quite a few statements by various scientists on Twitter who, in pointing to some preprint […]

May 12, 2020 Op-eds, Science

The chrysalis that isn’t there

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I wrote the following post while listening to this track. Perhaps you will enjoy reading it to the […]

February 5, 2020 Culture, Science

GM: confronting contradictions

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Neither the persuasion to nitpick scientific studies nor our persistent hypocrisy is going to end the GM crops debate.

June 8, 2017 Life notes, Scicomm

Podile, plagiarism, politics

If Appa Rao is the first politically appointed VC at the University of Hyderabad, how can anything he does not be examined through a political lens?

April 5, 2016 Scicomm

Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II papers are now in the public domain

The Wire May 21, 2015 A scientific paper written by Alan Turing, the brilliant computer scientist who cracked the […]

May 21, 2015 Culture, Scicomm
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