The Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhary’s remarks came after another professor in the economics department, Pulapre Balakrishnan, resigned in protest over the acceptance of resignation of assistant professor Sabyasachi Das.
Subject: The Review: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Eclipse of Faculty Autonomy; the CDC and Paranoia
It is too early to know what the long-term consequences of the coronavirus crisis will be for public attitudes toward expertise. While one imagines that the faster-than-expected development of vaccines will boost the prestige of pharmaceutical scientists, it is harder to predict how attitudes toward government organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might change. At the moment, trust is not especially high and it has declined over the past year.
How reputationally catastrophic, for example, will early missteps prove to be? As the newsletter