Apparently (and surprisingly) The Telegraph didn’t allow Dinesh Thakur to respond to an article by Biocon employee Sundar Ramanan, in which Ramanan deems Thakur’s article about the claims to efficacy of the Biocon drug Itolizumab not being backed by enough data to have received the DCGI’s approval to be inaccurate. Even notwithstanding The Telegraph‘s policy on how rebuttals are …
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The fascist’s trap
The following lines appear in the opening portion of G.S. Mudur’s report in The Telegraph about government opposition to student protests: “The people protecting our democracy are the people in JNU. They’re taking beatings on our behalf,” K.S. Venkatesh [a professor of electrical engineering at IIT Kanpur] told the assembled group [of students and faculty …
Do your bit, broaden your science menu
Don’t judge the best science journalists in India after having read only the worst science journalism.
TIFR’s superconductor discovery: Where are the reports?
Most news publications in India didn’t report on an exciting and significant discovery made by physicists from TIFR, Mumbai. Why not?