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Why having diverse interests is a virtue
As illustrated by the Marx-Ling-Brown dispute over that Canadaland podcast and Israel’s violence in West Asia Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged Canadaland, diverse interests, fact-checking, Gaza, Israel, Jay Rosen, Jesse Brown, Justin Ling, Paris Marx, scepticism, view from nowhere
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Political merch from a newsroom
Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Print, shared the following image on his Instagram profile a couple days ago: The post had the following note: Since we so love politics at ThePrint, we are developing a range of gifting merchandise. … Continue reading
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Tagged autocracy, Hindutva, journalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, The Print, view from nowhere
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SSC: Addendum
It’s wonderful how the mind has a way of cultivating clarity in the background, away from the gaze of the mind’s eye and as the mind itself is preoccupied with other thoughts, on matters considered only a few days ago … Continue reading
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Tagged Astral Codex Ten, New York Times, Quillette, rationalists, Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander Siskind, Slate Star Codex, view from nowhere
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Slate Star Codex: No time for malice
This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. To the uninitiated: Scott Alexander Siskind is a noted member of the international community of rationalists and wrote the once-celebrated blog Slate Star Codex. I use the past tense because … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture
Tagged Cade Metz, doxxing, Elizabeth Spiers, fascism-curious, New York Times, rationalism, rationalists, Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander, Scott Alexander Siskind, Slate Star Codex, view from nowhere, will wilkinson
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Ayurveda is not a science – but what does that mean?
This post has benefited immensely with inputs from Om Prasad. Calling something ‘not a science’ has become a pejorative, an insult. You say Ayurveda is not a science and suddenly, its loudest supporters demand to know what the problem is, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged allopathy, authoritarianism, Ayurveda, bhakts, Bharatiya Janata Party, far right, hospital care, Imre Lakatos, Karl Popper, knowledge systems, modern science, nationalism, Paul Feyerabend, pseudoscience, reason for state, social science, state, Thomas Kuhn, view from nowhere, welfare, welfare state, welfarism
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Two sides of the road and the gutter next to it
I have a mid-October deadline for an essay so obviously when I started reading up on the topic this morning, I ended up on a different part of the web – where I found this: a piece by a journalist … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds
Tagged bias, Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, ignorance, Jay Rosen, Kary Mullis, Nobel Prizes, objectivity, Omar Kelly, Poynter, Richard Feynman, Surjit Bhalla, Swarajya Mag, The New York Times, victim-blaming, victimisation, view from nowhere, women in STEM
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False equivalency
Margaret Sullivan in the Washington Post on August 16: Does finding these powerful ways to frame the [Charlottesville] situation amount to abandoning journalistic impartiality? “The whole doctrine of objectivity in journalism has become part of the [media’s] problem,” Jay Rosen, a journalism professor … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlottesville, Dalits, democracy, Donald Trump, Jay Rosen, journalism, Margaret Sullivan, view from nowhere
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