Vaccines for votes
A week or so ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar released its poll manifesto, the first point on which was that should the party win, it would make a COVID-19 vaccine cleared by the ICMR availabl…
ethics
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Would you take Epstein's money to fund your research?
Note: Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019. The following post was written before news of his death emerged. In 2016, I attended a talk by a not-unknown environmental activis…
Ethics in the metadata
There is a difficult choice that those seeking to popularise articles disagreeing with a certain use of language on ethical grounds can't escape.…
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I'm not really sure how the internet works in space. I'm sure in whatsoever way it does, it's a pretty big deal because it signals the ubiquity of human technology in a place where few hum…