Sandipan Baksi-Frontline

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At a vaccination centre in Mumbai.

The trajectory of scientific progress in the time of pandemic

The scale and spread of the pandemic have imposed unprecedented demands on modern science. But science being bound by the complex nature of reality an

Terraced rice fields in Hani in south-west China’s Yunnan province. Rice production in China more than tripled in the second half of the 20th century mainly because of increase in yield rather than expansion in acreage. Spectacular increases in agricultural productivity globally in the last century played a major role in sparing vast tracts of forests, which would have otherwise been converted to land for cultivation.

Pseudoscientific beliefs and world views in the time of pandemic

Even as the world pins its hopes heavily on science to combat the biggest pandemic ever, the spectre of pseudoscience haunts humanity. It appears that

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