Talk:2019 Indian Science Congress pseudoscience controversies

How talks are chosen
It would be helpful to have some information as to how talks and speakers are selected for this conference. At most academic conferences, people submit abstracts of the talks they propose to give and a committee vets them and selects the talks to be given. There will typically be a few people who are invited to speak because they are well known, the content of whose talks is not vetted, and similarly a few people invited to speak because of their position in the society, but most talks will have undergone some sort of quality control that will weed out the crazy ones. Is the ISC organized in this fashion, in which case talks like these indicate either low standards or irregularity in the selection process, or are speakers invited on some other basis?Bill (talk) 00:22, 15 January 2020 (UTC)