| Breakthrough Science Society By Pankaj 17/03/2004 At 04:21 The journal BREAKTHROUGH aims at Popularizing science among people and creation of a scientific awareness; Disseminating modern scientific ideas and inventions; Promoting an integrated approach to scientific problems; Providing exposure to the life and struggle of the great scientists and humanists; Providing a forum for cultivation of the history and philosophy of science. The Breakthrough Science Society (Established in 1995) is a non-profit social welfare organization with the following aims and objectives: To inculcate rational and scientific process of thinking; To spread ethical values and social responsibility in all fields of scientific endeavour; To foster consciousness against unscientific beliefs, superstitions, obscurantism and communalism; To study and cultivate the history and philosophy of science; To mobilize opinion, to organize campaigns, and to build up movements against the destructive use of science, and for the protection of environment; To move for the introduction of a secular and scientific education system. Please visit the web site http://www.ee.iitkgp.ernet.in/~soumitro/bt/index.html
URL:: http://www.ee.iitkgp.ernet.in/~soumitro/bt/index.html >>Add a comment Important articles from old issues (downloadable pdf files): 1. Opposition to new ideas in science, by J. V. Narlikar 2. Giordano Bruno: An everburning flame of commitment to truth and reason, by Ashoke Mukherjee 3. Rigvedic Saraswati: Myth and Reality, by Ashoke Mukherjee 4. Scientific Analysis of Qualitative Change, by Soumitro Banerjee 5. Some questions concerning the UGC course in astrology, by Kushal Siddhanta
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