modern science

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Ayurveda is not a science – but what does that mean?

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Analysis Science allopathy authoritarianism Ayurveda bhakts Bharatiya Janata Party far right hospital care Imre Lakatos Karl Popper knowledge systems modern science nationalism Paul Feyerabend pseudoscience reason for state social science state Thomas Kuhn view from nowhere welfare welfare state welfarism

This post has benefited immensely with inputs from Om Prasad. Calling something 'not a science' has become a pejorative, an insult. You say Ayurveda is not a science and suddenly, its loudest…

An Upanishadic lesson for modern science?

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Analysis Culture Science Amit Chaudhuri Bhagavad Gita causality creation creator disinterestedness Eastern Philosophy genius genius construct Gita Chadha Immanuel Kant impersonality Isa Upanishad Kena Upanishad Lawrence M Krauss modern science New Critical Philosophy of Science power Richard Feynman scientific genius The Life of Science TS Eliot Upanishads Western philosophy

Do the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads lack the "baggage of biography" – to borrow Amit Chaudhuri's words – because we don't know who the authors, outside of the mythology, are or –…

The chrysalis that isn't there

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Culture Science British Medical Journal chrysalis experiments gender discrimination industry of science modern science patriarchy publish or perish science and society scientific enterprise scientific literature scientific method scientific research

I wrote the following post while listening to this track. Perhaps you will enjoy reading it to the same sounds. Otherwise, please consider it a whimsical recommendation. :) I should really start keep…