Islamic clerics push back against human milk banks as Shari’a proscribes marriages between so-called milk siblings. But several Islamic countries, including Iran, operate them.
In the Indian education system, neo-casteism encompasses many forms of caste-based profiling, manipulation of nomenclature, political rigmaroles, and fearmongering.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Terrible twist for Pakistan. Having travelled to a ‘Gaushala’ near Nagpur, I worry also for India. While it is far from comparable, the elevation of cows to the position of god and the insistence that their urine cures cancer without feeling the need of validating such claims through peer review, blind testing and other scientific methods, many Indians seem to have tacitly accept the primacy of culture over science. Maybe the same can be said about homeopathy. What tools do civil societies have to counter such fantastic claims? Invoking reason will only alienate them as elites from the masses. Or worse, make them subjects of violence..
Terrible twist for Pakistan. Having travelled to a ‘Gaushala’ near Nagpur, I worry also for India. While it is far from comparable, the elevation of cows to the position of god and the insistence that their urine cures cancer without feeling the need of validating such claims through peer review, blind testing and other scientific methods, many Indians seem to have tacitly accept the primacy of culture over science. Maybe the same can be said about homeopathy. What tools do civil societies have to counter such fantastic claims? Invoking reason will only alienate them as elites from the masses. Or worse, make them subjects of violence..