Karl Popper

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Confessions of an Ayurveda Professor

Kishor Patwardhan 08/07/2022

When Kishor Patwardhan introspected on Ayurveda research and teaching,...

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Does the Indian Science Congress Acknowledge the Need to Be Reflexive?

Avijit Pathak 05/01/2019

Barring some remarkable exceptions, scientists tend to confine themselves...

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An Inquiry Into Common Misconceptions About Theory and Fact

Arun Krishna 24/04/2017

In a democracy, the onus is on the experts...

A winter storm over the northeastern portion of the US in February 2015. Credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

If Science Must Be a Self-Correcting Search for Truth, So Should Its Communication

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 27/10/2016

There is an onus on all of us to...

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Infinite in All Directions: String Wars, Ledecky’s Success and Subatomic Puzzles

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/08/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire’s science newsletter....

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Crosstalk: Science and Pseudoscience in This ‘Age of Magic’

Sunil Laxman 20/04/2016

There have been many clashes of civilisation over the...

A technician aligns a replacement focal-plane assembly with a powerful three-dimensional microscope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. This FPA will be installed on the Near Infrared Camera instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope's principal imager. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn.

Crosstalk: To Boldly Go From Collecting Facts to Making Discoveries

Sunil Laxman 20/12/2015

There are great discoveries to be made where we...