Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, coined the term “Rational Fools” nearly 35 years ago. In his famous paper, Sen … More
Category: Abuse of Science
Post Adolescent Idealism? Why psychologizing behavior is APSD: Acute Pseudo-Science Disorder
The travesty that was Bradley Manning’s trial is a topic for another forum. Reading about the court proceedings, what immediately … More
World Bank and Mother India!
So I was queued up at the university train-ticket shop. A middle-aged man was sitting on a sofa while his … More
Eric Schmidt’s Nightmare
The night of the happy day when Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google had declared to the world that privacy … More
Hippocratic oath or Hypocritic oath
I remember around 10 years back, a friend who is a doctor, went to an impoverished locality in Karachi with … More
Abdus Salam and Galileo: The separation of science from religion (and philosophy)
Dr Abdus Salam, the late Pakistani particle physicist is the only Muslim physicist till date to have been awarded the Nobel … More
The Evolution of Human Behavior?
On why scientists should not make unsubstantiated claims in popular science works especially where human beings are concerned It is … More
Postmodernism: The Opium of the Intellectuals
What follows is a post-modernist defense of Agha Waqar Ahmad’s water-car. The postmodernist author is Derridalacanlatour, a famous French intellectual … More
