NDM 1-Indian Social Scientist(!?) questions Indian Objection.

The social scientist(?) finds the objection by Indian scientists jingoistic not based on facts.

Read the lancet report.
1.Why only some countries  have been selected for the study?
2.Even then, why choose Delhi's Name for the bug?
3.When the bug is transferable in the strains from UK as well ,why not name it London Bug?
4.What is the Scientific reason for selecting only Pakistan,India and UK( obviously as a smoking gun)?
5.Those with the Bug traveled only to India and Pakistan?
No answers.
We do not need outsiders to malign us.
Self righteous pseudo Anglophiles and Social Scientists will do.
Is Sociology a Science a Science or an Art?
Text books say it is both.
Science when you want to and Art when you want to pass unsubstantiated charges against Scientists and Society.

Instead of a rational resolution by a peer group based on evidence, what we often get is a soap opera, where scientists slug it out, utterly indifferent to their professional roles. Consider thesuperbug controversy. It begins as an article in The Lancet, a prestigious and professional British medical journal, in August 2010. The journal publishes an article by Cardiff university scientists which observes that the water supply in Delhi has doses of the NDM-1 gene, which creates superbugs that trigger cholera and dysentery.One must admit that the naming is a standard practice. But the naming here becomes lethal because of its mnemonic and labelling power. It is all right if basmati or champagne is seen geographically. It adds to its power as intellectual property but a bug named after its region of location lowers the market value of the region as tourist potential. Worse, such an act of scientific christening evokes a sense of pollution about the area conveying a negative sense of well-being, sanitation and hygiene.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/Challenge-science-with-fact-not-jingoism/articleshow/8001995.cms

Methods

Enterobacteriaceae isolates were studied from two major centres in India—Chennai (south India), Haryana (north India)—and those referred to the UK's national reference laboratory. Antibiotic susceptibilities were assessed, and the presence of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM-1 was established by PCR. Isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of XbaI-restricted genomic DNA. Plasmids were analysed by S1 nuclease digestion and PCR typing. Case data for UK patients were reviewed for evidence of travel and recent admission to hospitals in India or Pakistan.

Findings

We identified 44 isolates with NDM-1 in Chennai, 26 in Haryana, 37 in the UK, and 73 in other sites in India and Pakistan. NDM-1 was mostly found among Escherichia coli (36) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (111), which were highly resistant to all antibiotics except to tigecycline and colistin. K pneumoniae isolates from Haryana were clonal but NDM-1 producers from the UK and Chennai were clonally diverse. Most isolates carried the NDM-1 gene on plasmids: those from UK and Chennai were readily transferable whereas those from Haryana were not conjugative. Many of the UK NDM-1 positive patients had travelled to India or Pakistan within the past year, or had links with these countries.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2810%2970143-2/fulltext

//timesof