Republican Congresswoman gets trolled for posting a photo with an Indian-origin Princeton student.
A major outrage began on X after Republican Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne posted a photo of her meeting with Rishika, a student at Princeton University. The anti-India statement has become so strong that every time a Republican leader does anything that has a connection with India, MAGA immediately disavows the action. A very recent example was Montana Governor Greg Gianforte’s visit to India. All his posts drew flak from MAGA as they questioned what business a Republican Governor can have with India. Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne faced the same trolling. Rishika shared her work advocating for the continuation of American leadership in scientific research and innovation. We discussed how policymakers can support STEM workforce development,” Beth wrote.
“On Wednesday, I met with Rishika, a student at Princeton University working with the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy.
“Public confusion led me to recognize and regret that this is not clear in the retracted publication, and I have included detailed clarification in an updated retraction statement to Wiley.
Earlier this year, Rishika Porandla retracted her own research paper, which was published in 2024 in an engineering journal due to “significant methodological errors”. Porandla admitted that she never conducted the experiments described in the study, according to reports. “The beam experiment described in the paper was a proposed experimental workflow with associated calculated results,” she wrote in an email to Retraction Watch.
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