Hypocrisy & Straw-man Arguments of Racism Meghan & Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has created a tsunami of emotions with the media obligingly stoking the fires for creating headlines, increased circulation and clicks. But is this shrill cacophony a clever ruse for some insidious motives wrapped in hypocrisy and straw-manning? To explore this, let us […]
Overlapping Facts & Fiction One silver lining to the current Covid-19 lockdown has been the ample opportunity it has provided for catching up on my reading list. As a consequence, I recently completed Norman Mailers “The Castle in the Forest” which chronicles a fictional account of how Adolf Hitler, was groomed from a very young
Covid-19 Perspective & Priorities Any crisis requires comparative and reliable data to give our priorities perspective and context. Is the seemingly extreme and knee jerk reaction of bringing the world to a halt to fight Covid-19 pandemic justified? Has anyone given any definitive scientific rationale for it? Alternatively, are the justifications provided scientific? This scrutiny
Covid-19 Modelling Madness Sorry the modelling here does not refer to the kind that involves fashion models, but the more mundane type used by scientists to make future predictions. I am sure it has not escaped your notice that all kind of forecasts are being made with abandon about Covid-19 reminiscent of the prophesies of
Cutting the Brexit Gordian Knot Socrates (470 BC) suggested that questions were the most appropriate tools to get to the truth behind complex ideas. Can the wisdom of this very revered ancient help us make sense of the seemingly intractable problem of Brexit? Let us find out the truth of his proposition by articulating some
