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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
TopicPseudoscience

Topic: pseudoscience

SubscriberWrites: Science is more crucial than ever, but pseudoscience has flourished during pandemic

From over use of steroids and wrong medication to the promotion of ‘Coronil’ and alternative cures, Covid has shown how ‘anti-science’ we are, writes Arpit Mathur.

As I stand in PPE, many patients say drugs don’t work, give Coronil — the damage Ramdev did

If Baba Ramdev spent a few days, or at least a few hours, at Covid-19 ICU frontlines, he would surely learn to respect modern medicine.

Deepak Chopra teaming up with Fitbit should worry us about tech’s new love for pseudoscience

Deepak Chopra claims that considering Covid-19, the financial crisis, and “all this ideological conflict”, those who say they aren’t stressed are lying.

Cow is a constant cool in Indian politics. But BJP’s mix of faith and science troubling

Since Modi assumed power in 2014 as Prime Minister, the cow has been in the news perhaps as much as he himself.

Hindu society’s real enemy is a pseudo-Hindu — not those branded ‘sickulars’ or ‘libtards’

Pseudo seculars have greatly damaged India’s liberal character. But they have been made irrelevant. And politicians don’t care about secular ideologies.

Pseudoscience gorillas are endangering citizens & the planet

Pseudoscience poses a great danger by preventing the right thing from being done and by also by doing the wrong thing big.

These Indian scientists have formed a band of myth-busters. Social media beware

A group of scientists from Mumbai are tracking fallacies peddled as fact and then debunking them.

Mainstream media continues to peddle pseudoscience on eclipse day

Despite scientists and astronomers trying to bust myths, media outlets continued to advise people not to eat, among other things.

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India needs a National Jobs Mission, not just skilling

Training millions of young people without commensurate opportunities risks producing not more employed youth, but more skilled unemployed.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Op Sindoor lesson: IAF chief bats for joint planning & coordination centre in Delhi, not theaterisation

Contrary to claims regarding implementation of theaterisation, ThePrint first reported on 17 June 2021 that it will be delayed. Now, ACM Singh bats for different structure.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.