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Yes, scientific journals should publish political rebuttals
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Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Anthony Fauci, Björn Brembs, false balance, glamour journals, journal prestige, peer review, pro-democracy, Science journal, science journalism, science news, scientific journals, Tucker Carlson
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The omicron variant and scicomm
Somewhere between the middle of India’s second major COVID-19 outbreak in March-May this year and today, a lot of us appear to have lost sight of a fact that was central to our understanding of COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020: that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 pandemic, delta variant, omicron variant, science communication, scientism
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The great Nobel Prize hypocrisy
Katie Langin’s report for Science on October 12 is an eye-opening account of one reason why the committees that pick every year’s Nobel Prize winners almost never pick women: because they aren’t nominated. Given the Nobel Foundation’s frustrating policy of … Continue reading
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Tagged affirmative action, Anthony Fauci, Göran Hansson, Nobel Prize nominations, Nobel Prizes
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Being apolitical doesn’t mean politics doesn’t exist
A few years ago, we had a writer who would constantly pitch articles to us about how the Indian government should be doing X, Y or Z in the fight against this or that disease. Their submissions grew quickly tiresome, … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, epidemics, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
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