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Tag: scientism

There’s a scientistic eclipse

lunar eclipse
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There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual participating in amplifying nonsense. It’s prima […]

April 30, 2022 Science

Science shouldn’t animate the need for social welfare

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This is an interesting discovery: First, it’s also a bad discovery (note: there’s a difference between right/wrong and good/bad). It […]

January 25, 2022 Analysis, Science

On science, religion, Brahmins and a book

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I’m partway through Renny Thomas’s new book, Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Its description on the Routledge page reads: […]

January 12, 2022 Analysis, Culture, Science

The omicron variant and scicomm

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Somewhere between the middle of India’s second major COVID-19 outbreak in March-May this year and today, a lot […]

December 9, 2021 Scicomm, Science

Cat stripes and folk tales

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The New York Times published an article on September 7, 2021, entitled ‘How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: […]

September 12, 2021 Analysis, Culture, Science

‘Science people’

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Two of the most annoying kinds of ‘science people’ I’ve come across on social media of late: Those […]

June 13, 2021 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 Q&A about my job and science journalism

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A couple weeks ago, some students from a university in South India got in touch to ask a […]

November 27, 2020 Scicomm

Trump, science denial and violence

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For a few days last week, before the mail-in votes had been counted in the US, the contest […]

November 7, 2020 Science

The ignoble president and the Nobel Prize

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What is the collective noun for a group of Nobel laureates? I’m considering ballast. A ballast of Nobel […]

September 13, 2020 Analysis, Culture, Science

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