Additional affidavit on behalf of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in the matter of a news item appearing in the Press Journal dated April 10, 2024 about disposal of garbage around Mahim railway station's track. The report stated that platforms and railway tracks were found cleaned during inspection by the SPCB. …
Right-wing media outlets like Breitbart, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh echoed the Mail’s “significantly misleading” and now censured climate story Back in February, the conservative UK tabloid Mail on Sunday ran an error-riddled piece by David Rose attacking Noaa climate scientists, who had published data and a paper showing that …
SciDev.Net partnered with the London School of Economics (LSE) and Museu da Vida (Brazil) to examine science communication around the world: journalists' background, workload, and opinions on science communication, work environment and capacity building needs. Also investigated the climate of opinion among science journalists and found no evidence for a …
Aaron Kesselheim and colleagues investigate conflict of interest disclosures in articles authored by physicians and scientists identified in whistleblower complaints alleging illegal off-label marketing by pharmaceutical companies. Original Source
Two paragraphs in its introductory section have blighted an article on stem cell research. Graham Parker, editor of Stem Cells and Development, told the science journal Nature that his publication was retracting the study by scientists at Britain
The high costs of publishing traditional journals open the door for sponsored content In April 2009, an online life sciences magazine, The-Scientist.com carried a curious story about a journal called The Australasian Journal of Bone and Medicine that was published in the early part of the century. The journal published …
Used phony journals to push Vioxx pharma giant Merck has been accused of using unscrupulous methods, including publication of fake journals, to promote its anti-arthritis drug Vioxx. The evidence against Merck was presented before an Australian court in May after it began hearing a four-year-old lawsuit. Merck paid a well-known …
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will bring out its prestigious scientific journal, Technology Review, in India in association with Cybermedia publishing house.
Investments in the research and development (r&d;) in India has grown from Rs 760.5 crore in 1980 to Rs 24,200 crore (as per 2008-2009 budget allocation). This is 0.8 per cent of the gdp From 1996 to 2006, expenditure has increased by 180 per cent. But the number of research …
One doesn't usually associate medical and scientific journals with anti-poverty campaigns. But more than 200 such journals from 34 nations ran simultaneous articles on a range of poverty and development-related topics in their October issues. There are commentaries on microfinance programmes and health; China's health care system; health effects of …
Need for an independent ethics body for India's science research has got stronger after a reputed science journal has recently withdrawn an Indian research study on cancer cells. On February 23, 2007, the Journal of Biological Chemistry called off a study by researchers from the Pune-based National Centre for Cell …
>> Germans have found a novel way of recycling thousands of used and unsold Christmas trees: to give them to the local zoo to feed the animals. "Elephants around the country will have a delicious lunch of five Christmas trees each,' Berlin zoo spokesperson Ragnar Kuehne informed the news agency …
Every star has a life and a subsequent death. But still, each one is different in the amount of darkness it drives away due to its own luminance. Born on November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan was certainly one of the brightest. Sagan died of pneumonia at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer …
No more John Brunner, the noted British science fiction writer, died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Brunner was well known for experimenting with form and paid great attention to contemporary social issues. He shot to fame with his novel Stand on Zanzibar in 1969. He had …
John Emsley author of The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life, was awarded the L10,000 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize. The book was chosen out of 92 entries which included big names like Arthur C. Clarke The Snows of Olympus and Steven Pinker The …
