The appointment of biologist Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan as the principal scientific advisor to the Government of India has come at a crucial time.
On one hand, the country is progressively moving towards scientific temperament and on the other, there is a section of people, including ministers, still bogged down by misconception and superstition. Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan recently claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking once said: "our Vedas might have a theory superior to (Albert) Einstein’s law E=MC2." A major responsibility for ...
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First Published: Sun, April 01 2018. 21:03 IST
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