Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

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Academic Sexism Is a Problem. False Resource Constraints Make It Worse.

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/11/2020

Resource constraints are a problem particularly when they're wielded...

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Medicine Nobel for Hep C Should Force Us to Think About Patents, Patients, Profits

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/10/2020

The intertwined stories of HCV infections and sofosbuvir illustrate...

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How the Nobel Prize Maintains Science’s Inequalities – and How It Can Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2020

It is nonsensical to persist with the idea of...

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COVID-19: ICMR’s Rush to Produce ‘Indian Vaccine’ Suggests Politics is Driving Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/07/2020

The August 15 timeline mentioned in Dr Balram Bhargava's...

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Six Reasons to Go Easy on the Dexamethasone Hype

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/06/2020

This is very positive news in a pandemic that...

Why Delhi Experiences So Many Tremors, What That Means for Future Earthquakes

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/06/2020

The answer lies under the Himalaya, in a famous...

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Dodgy Paper From Within Health Ministry Predicts September ‘End’ for Epidemic

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/06/2020

Government officials have consistently accepted a low bar of...