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The overlay bias

Dec 14, 2020 3 min read

I'm not very fond of some highly popular pieces of writing (I won't name them because I'm nervous about backlash from authors and/or their supporters) because a part of their popularity is…

For coronavirus claims, there is a world between true and false

Mar 26, 2020 2 min read

Analysis Science Amitabh Bachchan bias Boolean algebra coronavirus logic gates misinformation novel coronavirus panic scientism The Wire Science truth value

In high school, you must have learnt about Boolean algebra, possibly the most fascinating kind of algebra for its deceptive ease and simplicity. But thanks to its foundations in computer science, Bool…

Two sides of the road and the gutter next to it

Oct 3, 2019 3 min read

Culture Op-eds bias Bob Woodward Donald Trump ignorance Jay Rosen Kary Mullis Nobel Prizes objectivity Omar Kelly Poynter Richard Feynman Surjit Bhalla Swarajya Mag The New York Times victim-blaming victimisation view from nowhere women in STEM

I have a mid-October deadline for an essay so obviously when I started reading up on the topic this morning, I ended up on a different part of the web – where I found this: a piece by a journalist tal…

GM: confronting contradictions

Jun 9, 2017 3 min read

Uncategorized anti-GM activism Barnase-Barstar-Bar bias Deepak Pental farmer suicides food crop GM crops GM mustard hypocrisy scientific literature

Neither the persuasion to nitpick scientific studies nor our persistent hypocrisy is going to end the GM crops debate.…