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The devil's lassi

Feb 25, 2023 2 min read

‘The Devil’s Milkshake’, Tarence Ray in The Baffler, February 23, 2023: You’ve seen it before. An industrial disaster poisons a town’s food or water supply. Residents get angry. Public officials try…

There's a scientistic eclipse

Apr 30, 2022 3 min read

Science Indigenous peoples knowledge system rationalism Renny Thomas right wing scientism solar eclipse Zee News

There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual participating in amplifying nonsense. It's prima facie not nonsense in and of itself but because it's not qualified as astrologica…

The rationalists' eclipse

Dec 27, 2019 4 min read

Culture Science Against Method annular solar eclipse BR Ambedkar Caliban and the Witch capitalism myth Paul Feyerabend Periyar pseudoscience rationalism science communication scientism solar eclipse superstitions superstitious beliefs Sylvia Federici

The annular solar eclipse over South India on December 26 provided sufficient cause for casual and/or inchoate rationalism to make a rare public appearance – rarer than the average person who had deci…