Talks at the Indian Science Congress need to be vetted by serious committees, says Venki Ramakrishnan
Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who attended the Indian Science Congress held in Mumbai in 2015 and called it
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Pseudoscience
Indian Science Congress sans drama from 2020?
The Indian Science Congress Association has finally decided to bring some respectability to the Congress by deciding to do precisely
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Funding for science in India has nearly doubled in four years: Ashutosh Sharma
With fewer and fewer research proposals getting approved, delay in the release of funding for approved proposals, and only a
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Oncologists step aside, here comes medical astrologers
Pseudoscience has reached a new low in the form of medical astrology. Mushrooming of predatory journals in India is helping
Read MoreThree science academies denounce Satyapal Singh’s statement on evolution
In a first in recent times, three science academies in India have taken a stand and issued a statement denouncing Union
Read MoreAt last, there’s a welcome push back by the Indian scientific community
Since 2014, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there have been many instances when members of the ruling party at
Read MoreAstrology workshop at IISc stands cancelled
The pushback against the two-day astrology workshop to be held at IISc on November 25 and 26, 2017 was swift
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Alas, astrology workshop to be held at IISc in November
It was not a question of whether but when a scientific institution would hold a conference, meeting or workshop on
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