Watch | Impossible to Breathe: Science or Spectacle?

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Description: Science does not guide the Delhi government’s actions: it’s a story of fudged and disappearing data and questionable numbers.

Science does not guide the Delhi government’s actions: it’s a story of fudged and disappearing data and questionable numbers.

Aathira Perinchery

Science does not guide the Delhi government’s actions: it’s a story of fudged and disappearing data and questionable numbers.

watch impossible to breathe science or spectacle

Delhi has taken an “unprecedented, science-first step” by using cloud seeding to control air pollution, said Delhi environment minister Manjinder Sigh Sirsa on October 29. “With every [cloud seeding] trial, science guides our actions—for the winter and all year round,” he added.

But here’s how science does not guide the Delhi government’s actions: it’s a story of fudged and disappearing data, questionable numbers, and short-term, bandaid solutions.

This article went live on November fourth, two thousand twenty five, at thirty-six minutes past eleven in the morning.

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