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Another controversy, another round of blaming preprints

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On February 1, Anand Ranganathan, the molecular biologist more popular as a columnist for Swarajya, amplified a new preprint paper from scientists at IIT Delhi that (purportedly) claims the Wuhan coro…

Losing sight of the agricultural finish line

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In The Guardian, Joanna Blythman pokes an important pin into the frustrating but unsurprisingly durable bubble of vegan cuisine and the low-hanging fruits of ethical eating: These days it's fashi…

India's Delhi-only air pollution problem

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I woke up this morning to a PTI report telling me Delhi's air quality had fallen to 'very poor' on Deepavali, the Hindu ostensible festival of lights, with many people defying the Supreme…