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My next TOI blog post: Modi government’s draft education policy must be scrapped

This post provides high level reasons. More later.

The 97% fraud and nonsense on steroids

This fraud seems to have caught on. Here are the facts: ANALYSIS BY ALEX EPSTEIN Source One of the main papers behind the 97 percent claim is authored by John Cook, who runs the popular website SkepticalScience.com, a virtual encyclopedia of arguments trying to defend predictions of catastrophic climate change from all challenges. Here is Cook’s […]

Know thy enemy: a list of recent anti-GM posts by activists and confused journalists

I have been neglecting to read and keep track of these anti-GM people. I should, if only to get a big laugh. A few of the ones that I’ve chanced upon: == ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Colin Todhunter 15 June 2019, Kashmir Times ‘Multinational companies aim to control world through seeds’ – Hardeep Singh Bedi, 3 […]

Nityanand as god. Hilarious.

I love this clown guru. I occasionally come across his dazzlingly crazy ideas but this is the best! He beats most comedians – probably in the wrong job. I’ve downloaded this in case it is removed from the internet in the future. Such gems must be preserved for posterity. Of course, MaximBady has had a […]

Serious errors in Hardeep Singh Bedi’s article in OneIndia re: GM crops

The average quality of Indian journalists must rank as the lowest in the world. It is very rare to come  across competent ones. In this particular case, Hardeep Singh Bedi has put out a grossly misleading article in One India. Screenshot (original/ cleaned). My tweets on this matter (two series – see twitter) @hardeepSbedi There […]

Two recent questions on GM crops and Bt cotton in India’s parliament

I’ve extracted these two questions. PDF here and here. Word documents here and here. And there are a few more as well: http://164.100.47.5/qsearch/QResult.aspx and http://164.100.47.5/qsearch/QResult.aspx QUESTION 1 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMERS WELFARE LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1691 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 2ND   JULY, […]

Further notes on Sharad Joshi

I’ve written extensively on Sharad Joshi on this blog over the years. Want to make note of my recent research which is scattered about on Twitter and Facebook: Source: https://t.co/PKWIsHXKI2 pic.twitter.com/b6RzZGw23k — Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) July 2, 2019 And on youtube: Joshi’s 2008 talk gives us an idea about the depth of his liberal readings. […]

New education policy – notes

I’m going to be writing on this issue in the coming week. A placeholder post. GOI website Draft policy. I’ve converted into Word and am going through it with annotations, here. My first impression of this draft is that it is very poor and does not accommodate the reforms that SBP stands for.  More here […]

Some further notes on climate change

These are “left over” notes I had made for my second TOI blog article on climate change. Many of these points could not be included in the main article but reflect some of my findings and conclusions. There will be many typos in this set of notes and some repetition, since most were dictated on […]

My next TOI blog post: The warming effects of CO2 are benign

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