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Look away

Jan 19, 2022 1 min read

Not something I usually blog about but boy is this funny. (At least) Star Sports has been airing an ad for an app called 'Magicpin' that I think helps you in some way when you shop for stuff.…

Anti-softening science for the state

Mar 6, 2021 6 min read

Op-eds Scicomm Science Bharatiya Janata Party COVID-19 pandemic free press Gautam Adani government communication report Group of Ministers report independent media Mukesh Ambani neglected tropical diseases Patanjali Ayurved Principal Scientific Adviser research and development S.S. Bhatnagar Award science journalism soft topics tigers vaccine apartheid vaccine nationalism yoga

The group of ministers (GoM) report on "government communication" has recommended that the government promote “soft topics” in the media like “yoga” and “tigers”. We can only speculate what…

The virus and the government

Jun 1, 2020 1 min read

Op-eds Scicomm COVID-19 epidemiology Evelynn Hammonds free press health journalism right wing media science communication virology

In December 2014, public health researchers and activists gathered at a public forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss how our perception of diseases and their causative pathogens influences our…