Science reporting

Shivaji is disappointed by the sorry state of science reporting in the Indian media.

Lack of appropriate coverage of science and technology in the news not only makes the already superstitious general public more agnostic of science and rationality, but also lets go without public scrutiny, government decision making in this field. For example, there has been very almost no public debate around the utility of a $95 million moon mission. There is little public debate around how public institutions such as DRDO have failed to nurture a scientific ecosystem as the US DARPA has done…