The Daily Digest: Indian Science(fiction) Congress?

14/01/2019 16 min
The Daily Digest: Indian Science(fiction) Congress?

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As published in an NPR report and an SCMP article, some speakers in the Indian Science Congress made several unscholarly claims. These claims include how an ancient demon-king had planes and that India had been making test-tube babies for thousands of years. How did a prestigious science platform end up spouting pseudoscientific ideas? We speak to the journalists behind the articles. Correction: It was Sohini C's South China Morning Post article that referenced a press clarification about why one of the speakers might have told mythological stories around science, and not the NPR article.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.