Tag Archives: Indian Council of Medical Research
Journalistic entropy
Say you need to store a square image 1,000 pixels wide to a side with the smallest filesize (setting aside compression techniques). The image begins with the colour #009900 on the left side and, as you move towards the right, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm
Tagged conspiracy theories, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, entropy, fact-checking, false balance, health journalism, image compression, Indian Council of Medical Research, information theory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Priyanka Pulla, pseudoscience, science journalism, thermodynamics, Washington Post
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In conversation with Sree Srinivasan
On May 1, I was hosted on a webinar by the American journalist Sree Srinivasan, along with Anna Isaac of The News Minute and Arunabh Saikia of Scroll.in. As part of his daily show on the COVID-19 crisis, hosted by Scroll.in, Srinivasan hosts a … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged Anna Isaac, Arunabh Saikia, COVID-19, data journalism, Indian Council of Medical Research, Indian journalism, Irrfan Khan, mainstream media, novel coronavirus, pandemic, Rishi Kapoor, science journalism, Scroll.in, serological tests, Sree Srinivasan, The News Minute
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‘Science alone triumphs’: A skeptic annotates
An article entitled ‘Science alone triumphs: Providing a true picture of the world, only science can help India against coronavirus’, penned by a Jayant Sinha, appeared on the Times of India‘s editorials page on April 8, 2020. My annotated reading … Continue reading
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Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jayant Sinha, novel coronavirus, virus
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On India’s path to community transmission
There’s a virus out there among many, many viruses that’s caught the world’s attention. This virus came into existence somewhere else, it doesn’t matter where, and developed a mutation at some point that allowed it to do what it needs … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution, community transmission, coronavirus, COVID-19, demonetisation, epidemiology, healthcare expenditure, Homo sapiens, Indian Council of Medical Research, infectious diseases, local transmission, novel coronavirus, pandemic, World Health Organization
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