Tag Archives: realpolitik

The ignoble president and the Nobel Prize

Posted on September 13, 2020 by

What is the collective noun for a group of Nobel laureates? I’m considering ballast. A ballast of Nobel laureates is appealing because these people, especially if they are all white and male, often tend to take themselves too seriously and … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science | Tagged Abdus Salam, Barack Obama, Bharatiya Janata Party, Carol Greider, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, civic engagement, democracy, democratic rights, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Nobel laureatures, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for peace, public participation, public stewardship, realpolitik, reason of state, Rep. Bill Foster, scientism, scientocracy | Comments Off

The alleged politicisation of science

Posted on September 22, 2019 by

“Don’t politicise X” has become the defence of choice for a class of scientists and public intellectuals in India whose class and caste privilege utterly blinds them to various inequities in the practice of science – as privilege is wont … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Science | Tagged caste-based discrimination, Chandrayaan 2, gender-based discrimination, ISRO, misogyny, nationalism, Paul Feyerabend, politicisation, politics, privilege, pseudoscience, rationalism, realpolitik, religion, scientism, Tim Hunt | Comments Off