Recently, The Lancet, an internationally renowned peer-reviewed medical journal released an article about the Covid-19 emergency in India and criticised the government’s response.
In response to the article, Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan shared an article on Twitter, calling it a “fair rebuttal to imbalanced editorial in The Lancet”.
The article in question is a blog post, written by a certain Prof. Pankaj Chaturvedi. And among other things, it lists “Indian television debates” as a valid response to claims in The Lancet about government stifling criticism.
Naturally, Twitter had a lot to say about this “fair rebuttal”:
Just wondering how soon will the blogpost make it to WhatsApp groups!
Just wondering how soon will the blogpost make it to WhatsApp groups!