tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post8556762813550112414..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Public Discussions of Problematic PublicationsAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-19184571115091334502012-04-30T04:57:39.130+05:302012-04-30T04:57:39.130+05:30Keeping with in the family seem to be a bit like c...Keeping with in the family seem to be a bit like caste laws. I wonder whether that is possible when the number of people in the profession is large coming from different backgrounds, security money and power are involved and no clear cut formats being followed. Possibly efforts bu Rahul and others to formulate and popularize some norms would help. It seems to me that people who go public often have trouble later in the profession in most countries and probably do only as a sort of last resort strategy. I am out of professional life now and am just wondering aloud.gaddeswaruphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16509075029154476375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-91700726247079245882012-04-29T23:11:55.168+05:302012-04-29T23:11:55.168+05:30This person seems to have an axe to grind against ...This person seems to have an axe to grind against the media -- this is explicit in the first and third of the three blogposts, and implicit in the second. There are a few good points, but not terribly convincing to me. It would be more interesting if we knew the real name. I don't object to anonymous blogging in general, but isn't there a cognitive dissonance in urging Indian scientists to be more vocal in various things ("occupy the public intellectual space") while choosing to hide oneself in pseudonymity?Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.com