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'Hunters', sci-fi and pseudoscience

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Culture Scicomm Science Adolf Hitler Bharatiya Janata Party civil aviation Delhi riots Edward Bulwer-Lytton electricity ethnic cleansing Hindutva Hunters identity politics John Forster Nazism occult provincialism pseudoscience sci-fi science fiction technology The Coming Race Vril

One of the ways in which pseudoscience is connected to authoritarian governments is through its newfound purpose and duty to supply an alternate intellectual tradition that subsumes science as well as…

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

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Culture Op-eds Science Abhijit Banerjee Albert Einstein Appa Rao Podile Booker Prize Brian Keating Caltech Chien-Shiung Wu CV Raman Esther Duflo Fermilab Göran Hansson gender-based discrimination Hindutva Hugo Award impact factor Isaac Asimov John B Goodenough late capitalism Lise Meitner Margaret Atwood nationalism Nature journal Nobel laureates Nobel Prize prestige bias Prime Minister Narendra Modi sexism The Big Bang Theory Vera Rubin

Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all bu…