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Ayurveda is not a science – but what does that mean?

Aug 16, 2020 5 min read
Analysis Science 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

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…

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A science for the non-1%

Feb 3, 2020 4 min read
Op-eds Science 1% higher education humanities ivory tower Jeffrey Epstein manufacturing doubt political participation publish or perish reason for state scientific knowledge scientific research scientism social science

David Michaels, an epidemiologist and a former US assistant secretary of labour for occupational safety and health under Barack Obama, writes in the Boston Review: [Product defence] operations have o…

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