Naveen Kumar Sharma & Arati Upadhyay Incidents such as false ownership (e.g., Galgotias University claiming a Chinese robot as its own), fake authorship, unsolicited use of AI, and data manipulation are damaging the reputation of Indian science. Scientific progress is one of the basic pillars on which a country’s overall progress depends. Scientific progress, technological […]
Why is there variation in the degree of independence that mentees have in terms of their research? What are the consequences of this variation for both the mentors and the mentees? Should institutes take this variation into account while hiring or promoting faculty?
For a science budget in the backdrop of a pandemic, it does make big moves but leaves some crucial details to be filled in later. Finance Minister quoted Rabindranath Tagore in her budget speech – “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark”. Until the details come in, faith must be kept that what the big print has given, the fine print will not take away.
One ‘finding’ suggests cancer and MDR-TB patients consuming a cow-urine distillate along with their medication can reduce the dosage of their medication and still reap positive results. This is dangerous.
Improving academic research needs to be a wide-ranging project.
