Category: Advocacy

  • Is Science a Page 7 culture?

    When I was teaching in a college last year there were plenty of students of my college who were so enthused about the concepts of science of the day that they would often greet me with a great deal of honor (a la Indian, Namaskar, bowing with visible respect) and ask me their questions such…

  • Is Science a Page 7 culture?

    When I was teaching in a college last year there were plenty of students of my college who were so enthused about the concepts of science of the day that they would often greet me with a great deal of honor (a la Indian, Namaskar, bowing with visible respect) and ask me their questions such…

  • “Why is there so much bias in the minds of the westerner scientists towards the Indian scientists?”

    But this is exactly where I hit my nail. Or I would prefer to. Hasn’t the so called western society been propagating a culture of science whose torch bearers are held with high esteem? And when these torch bearers have shown the path in science, they hardly called upon themselves as great Greek soldiers and…

  • Good science survives on giving credit to right person

    Good science survives on giving credit to right person

    A log of a discussion, I had, with a some folks I have never met … On freedom of science and freedom of doing science … Mr Tony Owopetu; To what extent do you think data from scientific research should be shared? Mr Austin T Mohr; Fully, freely, and without reservation. Of course, I’m a…

  • A few thoughts on religion and science

    We don’t need monasteries, but we need laboratories and libraries and universities and downtowns with a lot of bars. Without the laboratories we will be tyrannous to our families, without the universities and libraries we will be wonderers but without the bars and hang-arounds our creativity will be like a dead man’s dreams. Science is…