Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy answers all your Questions and Controversies - TPE

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Hoodbhoy is also a prominent activist in particular concerned with promotion of freedom of speech, secularism, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.

Pervez Hoodbhoy comes on for a special episode of The Pakistan Experience where he answers all your questions and addresses all the controversies.

Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.


The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations.
Please consider supporting us on Patreon:
  / thepakistanexperience  








And Please stay in touch:
  / thepakistanexp1  
  / thepakistanexperience  
  / thepakistanexpeperience  








The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications.
















Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh
Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/
Twitter.com/shehzad89

Chapters:
0:00 Dr Atta ur Rehman and Bentham Science Publishers
10:30 Why are you not writing articles anymore?
12:00 String Theory
13:40 Advice on becoming a physicist
14:30 How to stop teaching pseudoscience
16:00 Advice to young people on the place of religion in their lives
21:30 Responding to Dr Zaheer at LUMS
24:30 The debate with Dr Asad: Islam and Science
37:00 SNC
41:00 The problems with our students
46:00 The Pakistani diaspora
50:00 The Hijab Controversy
54:00 Banning of interest
55:30 How do we encourage scientific thinking in Pakistan
1:05:50 James Webb Telescope and the Inflationary Theory of the Universe
1:07:30 Why doesn't he move abroad?
1:08:00 If you are made head of HEC?
1:10:30 Dr Abdus Salam
1:14:30 Curbing Religious Fundamentalism
1:18:30 Cults, Conspiracy Theories and Imran Khan
1:25:30 Gravitational Waves
1:27:00 Black Holes
1:28:00 Theory of Relativity
1:29:00 Mathematical Education in Pakistan
1:31:30 Why are Pakistanis not getting admissions in Ivy Leagues
1:34:40 Kya ye mulk Science kee importance samjhay ga?
1:36:00 Education Content
1:38:10 Eqbal Ahmed
1:40:00 What led you away from Marxism
1:42:00 Elite Capture
1:43:50 Why can't Pakistan make IIT?
1:45:30 Electricity from Jihns
1:46:00 BJP reviving Vedic Sciences
1:48:30 Home Schooling
1:50:20 How do you stay fit!