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Is there a distrust of scientists?
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By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
1 min
Is there today a distrust of science?
The scientific word is increasingly questioned, even discredited.
There are, for example, and this sometimes makes you smile, the “platistes”: those who believe that the Earth is flat.
There are also, and this is much less laughable, the “climate skeptics”: those who doubt global warming, its causes and its consequences.
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Even more recently, at the height of the pandemic, we heard from the “covido-skeptics”: those who doubted the mortality or the very existence of Covid-19, and those who doubted the vaccines proposed to respond to it.
Wacky theories have proliferated, often to the detriment of scientific knowledge.
So, is this indeed a real distrust of science?
How can we explain and fix it?
To discuss
:
- Michel Dubois
, sociologist research director at the CNRS
- Yves Charpak
, doctor specializing in public health and president of the Charpak foundation, the spirit of science
- Frédéric Worms
, philosopher, professor of contemporary philosophy, director of the École Normale Supérieure
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