Young people's disaffection with science: a breeding ground for the culture of suspicion and conspiracy?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

2 min

In France, nearly 9% of the population believe it is possible that the Earth is flat, according to Ifop in 2017 for the Jean Jaurès Institute and the Conspiracy Watch observatory.

The “platists” refute the scientific demonstrations.

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In our societies of generalized mistrust, how can we explain a certain form of “fear” or “rejection” of science by young people?

How to apprehend the sciences, to restore the taste for the truth and to disseminate the scientific spirit?   

With :

Didier Roux

 member of the

 and vice-president of the

Stéphanie Descroix

chemist and research director at the

and co-author of the book 

 in which 80 scientists talk about everyday chemistry, the one that will change our future 

Jérôme Blanchard

, editor-in-chief of 

, journal and website 

A microtrottoir of high school students on their relationship to science by  

The hard sciences are less and less dreams of high school students.

Too complex, too abstract, many of them do not continue to learn math, physics or SVT after the second grade.

Amélie Beaucour went to meet them, in front of a general high school and a professional high school in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. 

And at the end of the program, the chronicle of psychologist Ibrahim Haïdara,

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