Renowned scientist C. N. R Rao has come under fire for denouncing workers in the IT sectors as doing routine work, while they siphon off valuable intellectual talent from science and the arts and give back almost nothing in return. This deserves some further analysis…
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In the 1950s, after much wrangling on issues related to national defense and other expedient matters, President Eisenhower set up the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), a group of distinguished scientists that was to provide non-partisan scientific advice to presidents. The president wanted a body of advisors in the White House who were answerable to [...]
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