Contamination of intellect and medicines
Insist on a little bit of quality control and we might be able to save ourselves and our intellect from contamination.
Insist on a little bit of quality control and we might be able to save ourselves and our intellect from contamination.
Pakistan has become a Cloud Cuckooland where reason and rational are termed conspiracy, responded through rage.
While the West lands rovers on Mars, Muslim contributions to science have reduced, losing ground to anti-rationalists.
How much we know about things, causal paths, purported causal link with water-kit claims, our non-scientific thinking.
One can easily guess the reaction of those who believed in Mr Waqar's invention, if a man claimed to be pregnant!
Waqar asks PPP MNA's brother Ranomal Malani to distribute prize money worth Rs5 million among the poor.
The media is also ignorant, especially in the way it is portraying the issue.
What is even more disturbing is how so many senior scientists seem to have fallen for this hoax.
I was very disappointed to see that so many people believe in Agha Waqar.
In Pakistan, everything is a matter of belief, not only religion but politics and now science.
The kit was to be tested on Thursday at NUST, but this did not happen.
The basic idea behind the Khairpur device is not new and has been shown not to work.
To me, questioning the second law of thermodynamics is akin to blasphemy (metaphorically).
Agha Waqar Ahmad’s ‘water kit’, if one believes science to be right, simply cannot work.
Forget power cuts, just put two litres of water in the generator and sleep soundly throughout the night.
