Satyapal Singh

HRD Minister Satyapal Singh. Credit: PTI

BJP MP Satyapal Singh Still Thinks Charles Darwin Got Evolution Wrong

The Wire Staff 20/07/2019

“Our culture says we are the children of rishis....

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The Politics of Indian Pseudoscience and What We Need to Do to Tame It

Jaya Ramchandani 07/06/2018

We need to find a way to critically review...

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With Ministers Like These, Every Day Must Be Science Day

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2018

The discovery of the Raman effect was a product...

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The Kardashian Index and the Metamorphosis of the ‘Scientific Community’

Aneree Parekh 02/02/2018

The K-index compares the number of Twitter followers a...

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What It Means to ‘Reject’ Evolution, in the Words of a 1982 Judgment

S.K. Arun Murthi 23/01/2018

The dismissal of a theory for scientific wrongness should...

From left to right: Satyapal Singh (Credit: Wikimedia Commons), a depiction of Darwin's Theory of Evolution (Credit: Pixabay, Creative Commons) and Charles Darwin (Credit: Wikimedia Commons).

Scientists and Three Science Academies Protest Satyapal Singh’s Creationist Remark

The Wire Staff 22/01/2018

They wrote that the incident "diminishes the image of...

From left to right: Ram Madhav (Credit: PTI), Charles Darwin (Credit: Wikipedia Commons) and Satyapal Singh (Credit: PTI).

With Ram Madhav and Satyapal Singh in Charge, Even Lord Ram Can’t Help Indian Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/01/2018

If the minister's pen, with RSS support, blots the...