Religion, unlike science, rests on a fixed set of practices and beliefs based on ancient texts that guide us about the rules of everyday living. If we consider the popular belief in religion and the everyday rituals that religion prescribes, then the pandemic has pushed much of those to the back-burner. In the world of today’s pandemic, religion has become an academic debate at best. The efficacy or otherwise of the well-known drug, hydroxychloroquine, is an example of the tangling of science, business and politics. Profits and politics have clearly revealed their presence in the world of objective science and research.

Source: The Telegraph June 09, 2020 19:52 UTC