Mainstream Weekly

Very Serious Scientific Data Falsification by Ramachandran-Chidambaram

Ashok Parthasarathi, K. Santhanam, P K Iyengar — 2009-12-08T13:57:56Z

A careful, in-depth study, of Graphs 4 and 1 of Ramachandran's September 25, Frontline article “Pokhran Row” reveals:
a) Graph 4 is titled: “Gamma-Ray Spectrum of a Typical Sample of a (H-bomb) Thermonuclear Test”—not of the specific H-bomb test conducted on May 11, 1998!
b) The vertical ‘Y' axis of Graph 4 is merely titled “Counts”
c) There are no numbers at all on the ‘Y' axis of both Graphs.
Serious mistakes of physics have been committed here
i) (…)

- December 2009

Don't Go Ahead with the N-Deal : Top Scientists

A Gopalkrishnan, A N Prasad, P K Iyengar — 2008-07-11T05:06:31Z

We were part of a group of senior nuclear scientists who had in the past expressed our grave concerns and objections to India entering into a nuclear cooperation agreement with the US under the aegis of the Hyde Act 2006. We had written to the parliamentarians on this matter, and the Prime Minister had given us an opportunity to meet with him and discuss our views.
At this critical juncture, when the Government is about to rush the safeguards agreements to the IAEA without giving its (…)

- July 5, 2008