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National Science Day: 5G Kills Birds? Lemon-Chilli Wards Off Evil? The 'WhatsApp Science' Fact-Check You Need

Between the "Forwarded as Received" madness and actual peer-reviewed reality, it’s time to stop the digital rot and reclaim our logic. If I have to read one more family group message about how the "alignment of the stars" during a solar eclipse will curdle the milk in my fridge, I might just toss my phone into the nearest water body. We’ve all been there. It’s that familiar ping - usually from an uncle who means well but hasn't fact-checked a day in his life - announcing a "scientific" breakthrough that feels suspiciously like a plot point from a low-budget sci-fi flick. As we hit National Science Day, commemorating Sir C.V. Raman’s discovery of the Raman Effect, the irony is thick enough to cut with a butter knife. We celebrate a man who questioned the very color of the sea, yet we blindly click 'share' on claims that 5G towers are ...

Soham Halder
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