Questions we should be asking more often
1. Okay, but where’s the money coming from? In a lecture at the Asian College of Journalism, where I was in the audience as a student, P. Sainath told us that if we needed one rule following which we…
ad hominem
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Science journalism, expertise and common sense
On March 27, the Johns Hopkins University said an article published on the website of the Centre For Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), a Washington-based think tank, had used its logo wi…
Fortitude
What's the point of sweating to compose a good argument when the reader doesn't exist who will rebut it instead of nosing around to figure out who penned it and going after them instead? This…