 | India will continue to rise, regardless of its politics!
India is an important country. It will soon be the world's most populous. It has the world's fastest growing large economy. Not least, it remains a vibrant democracy. What happens in India is going to affect everybody on the planet. What, then, are its economic prospects? Has Narendra Modi, its prime minister, made a big difference? How important are the general elections due in the next few months? The decisive change in India's economic trajectory came in 1991, when a foreign currency crisis caused a fundamental shift away from the "license Raj" towards a market-led economy, but one with a strong role for public ownership, and constant government interference. This is today's broad Indian consensus. Mr Modi has operated largely within it, albeit introducing significant further reforms, most of them uncontroversial - at least in principle, if less so in practice. The exception has been demonetisation - a shocking decision, taken on Mr Modi's whim.
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|  | When Science Journalism Becomes Dangerous
As a molecular biologist, I laugh alongside my colleagues in the lab when we read stories in magazines or hear breaking news reports about the latest "cure" for cancer. We understand that scientific research can be a little dull. And publications in scientific journals can be virtually inaccessible to the general public, both in terms of their jargon and their exorbitant pricing. To sell a scientific story, research findings get spiced up, simplified, over-extrapolated, and even distorted.
For example, I feel like I read a headline about a new "cure" for cancer every week. If I had to meet only the scientific standards of a news corporation, I would have personally "discovered" 57 new anti-tumor drugs during the course of my PhD studies alone.
Ultimately, there isn't a great deal of danger to stories like these. Sure, they may get people's hopes up prematurely. But chemotherapy drugs take years of clinical testing, millions of dollars, and pages of legal documentation before they reach the market. We start to approach a gray area, however, when the media promotes unregulated products or makes unclear, and unproven, suggestions about the ways our bodies work.
People shouldn't be basing their health decisions on an article they read online or something they saw on TV. Health choices should be governed by the best possible scientific understanding available and that's not something that's going to be gleaned from sound bites in mainstream media.
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