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India Facing Ongoing Assault on Scientific Temper

D. Raghunandan

Earlier this year, the All India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) called for observing August 20 asNational Scientific Temper Day (NSTD), in order to commemorate the cold-blooded murder of Dr. Narendra

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Six Possible Scientific Reasons for Ghosts

Sabrina Stierwalt, PhD,

If you believe in ghosts, you are far from alone. Around 45% of Americansbelieve in ghostsand as many as 18% of people will go so far as to say they

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What Can Science Learn from Religion? Steven Pinker on Religious Beliefs & Rituals

Michael Shermer

On Sunday February 3 theNew York Timesran anOpinion Editorial by David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at North-eastern University, Boston who studies the ways in which emotions guide decisions and

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Five Ways Our Brains Are Wired To Make Bad Choices, and How to Correct Them

James Clear

Blame your brain I like to think of myself as a rational person, but Im not one. The good news is its not just me or you. We are all

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These Mysteries Puzzled Us Forever, But Science Solved Them

Humans love making up unbelievably-intriguing and mysterious stories about ghosts, sea monsters, animate objects, and alien invasions. The list goes on, and I must admit that I love reading these

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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

Max Read

In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers

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Who doesnt love sales? Theres just one problem: they lead us to make dumb choices

Dan Ariely & Jeff Kreisler

Susan Thompkins is somebodys Aunt Susan, and everyone has someone like her. Aunt Susan is a genuinely happy and loving woman, who buys gifts for her nephews and nieces whenever

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Rationalism in Society: How Rationalism Fails Us

Jamie Sherry

Rene Descartes was the first to speculate on rationalism in the seventeenth century, basing it upon the idea that the only thing that could ever be known is the mind.

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Whole of India needs anti-superstition law

Kundan Pandey

In 21st century India, many people in rural as well as urban areas, would still rather consult a tantrik or an astrologer to cure their illnesses instead of approaching a

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Do We Need An Anti-Superstition Law?

Context: Recently, the Maharashtra State Legislature passed the much publicized Anti- Superstition Bill. Maharashtra became the first state in the country to pass a bill to combat practices like black

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How to React to Stupidity at the Science Congress

Vasudevan Mukunth

Correlation is not causation but its really hard to set aside the fact that Indias ruling party has empowered a clutch of people to vocalise their pseudoscientific beliefs without fear

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Outlandish claims at Indian Science Congress

Rajani KS

Let me begin by saying that the just concluded 106th Indian Science Congress (ISC) at Lovely Professional University, Punjab is an event that progress and promotion of science and research

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I Should Not Allow Myself to be Scared”

Dr. Narendra Dabholkar

For some reason or the other, various adversaries keep targeting me for attacks. Narendra Maharaja is one such person. He has a reason to hate me. In one of his

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The Case for Reason review: Religion and rationality

V.S. Sreedhara

Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1945-2013) is a well-known social activist and writer from Maharashtra who was gunned down on August 20, 2013, during his morning walk in Pune. It is

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Rise from your knees; cease your mindless murmurs to a god who does not exist or, at best, does not care; and accept the world as it actually is. There is learning to do, there are discoveries to be made and there is knowledge to win. The blackness has not yet fully lifted, but we can only strive for greater illumination when we clutch science as, as Carl Sagan might have said, our candle in the dark.

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