As a journalist, it is always thrilling to have a character to resurrect from obscurity, says Samanth Subramanian. Subramanian might seem like an unlikely chronicler of the life of one of the pioneering genetic scientists of the 20th century. As is the case in my journalism as well, I don’t like being boxed in, I don’t like having a beat. Image courtesy Simon & Schuster India Haldane speaking at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, in August 1960. But the other reason is this confusion that scientists seem to have developed over the last few decades that to be scientifically objective is to somehow be apolitical.

Source: Huffington Post February 02, 2020 01:18 UTC