Tag Archives: Times of India

On that anti-mRNA vaccines video

Posted on February 1, 2023 by

The Times of India has published an irresponsible article today on a video by a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claiming with dubious evidence that all mRNA vaccines are harmful. The article quotes from the video at … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged ad verecundiam, AEFI, myocarditis, Nature Scientific Reports, Nick Naylor, peer review, public healthcare, Retsef Levi, science journalism, Times of India | Comments Off

Science journalism, expertise and common sense

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

On March 27, the Johns Hopkins University said an article published on the website of the Centre For Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), a Washington-based think tank, had used its logo without permission and distanced itself from the study, … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm, Science | Tagged ad hominem, authoritarianism, CDDEP, cherry-picking, common sense, complexity, coronavirus, COVID-19, epistemology, expertise, knowledge is power, novel coronavirus, Ramanan Laxminarayan, science journalism, Times of India | Comments Off

For space, frugality is a harmful aspiration

Posted on February 21, 2018 by

Ref: ‘ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to cost lesser than Hollywood movie Interstellar – here’s how they make it cost-effective’, staff, Moneycontrol, February 20, 2018. ∞ ‘Chandrayaan-2 mission cheaper than Hollywood film Interstellar’, Surendra Singh, Times of India, February 20, 2018. ∞ The following … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Chandrayaan, ESA, frugal engineering, frugal innovation, gravity, hollywood, Indian Space Research Organisation, Interstellar, ISRO, K Sivan, labour costs, Mars Orbiter Mission, Moneycontrol, NASA, NASA MAVEN, public sector undertaking, quality control, Times of India | Comments Off

TIFR’s superconductor discovery: Where are the reports?

Posted on December 3, 2016 by

Most news publications in India didn’t report on an exciting and significant discovery made by physicists from TIFR, Mumbai. Why not? Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bismuth, embargo, Indian Express, ISRO, physics, R&D, Science, science journalism, superconductor, The Hindu, The Telegraph, The Wire, TIFR, Times of India | Comments Off

And now, a tweet from our sponsor

Posted on August 29, 2014 by

This is a guest post contributed by Anuj Srivas, tech. journalist and blogger, until recently the author of Hypertext, The Hindu. “Once every hundred years, media changes,” social media king Mark Zuckerberg declared at a Facebook advertising event seven years … Continue reading →

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