Bruno Donnet 09:51, 01 June 2023

Every day, Bruno Donnet watches television, listens to the radio and scans newspapers and social networks to deliver his telescoping. This Thursday, he is interested in the media treatment of Didier Raoult in France and Spain.

Every day, Bruno Donnet lifts the hood of media mechanics. This morning, he is interested in the two-speed treatment that Professor Raoult has just undergone.

Telescoping this morning between what Bruno Donnet observed on French television channels and an article read in the Spanish press.

This weekend, a collective of eminent scientists, from 18 learned societies, published in the newspaper Le Monde, a long tribune, to be moved by the fact that Professor Raoult carried out a hidden and unauthorized clinical trial on more than 30,000 patients, whom he therefore used as guinea pigs, to test the effectiveness of his famous hydroxichloroquine.

Interviewed on Monday evening, on France 5, in C à Vous, Professor Mathieu Molimard, who is co-signatory of the tribune and head of the medical pharmacology department at the C.H.U of Bordeaux, said all the bad he thought of Professor Raoult's practice: "It's a huge scandal!"

He explained why his work had at no time respected the most elementary scientific principles: "In this latest publication, he compares things that are incomparable, cabbages and carrots (...) It's level zero, it's zero from zero, it's level zero of science. »

Then he used an interesting word: "It is clear that promoting an unproven drug and saying that this drug is safe is typically a demonstration of quackery."

He used the term charlatan: "A charlatan will tell you: listen, my medicine heals everything (...) It heals everything and you risk nothing. »

On French television channels, Professor Raoult was not treated, at all, as a charlatan.

It was received, in majesty, almost everywhere, by journalists far too happy to have a new opportunity to receive a very good customer.

On BFM TV, for example, Tuesday morning, Bruce Toussaint used the big words: "Didier Raoult explains himself this morning exclusively on BFMTV. "

He spoke of "exclusivity", while barely half an hour later who was also questioned, live, by Pascal Praud, on C.News?

Professor Raoult! the same one who also went for a little tour, in the evening, on C8, in Touche Pas à Mon Poste, to affirm, without being contradicted, that his tests, to him, had absolutely nothing illegal, unlike others: "I will tell you, there is only an illegal test, to my knowledge, it is vaccination. "

In the media terms, receiving Professor Raoult is a godsend. It is the assurance of attracting a large audience. To pull off a coup.

Didier Raoult knows it perfectly well, that's why, in interviews, he is the boss. And it is he who dictates his law, to the media.

He also did it perfectly on BFMTV, threatening to end the interview, if it was not carried out at his convenience: "I propose you to listen now to Professor Molimard who is head of medical pharmacology at the University Hospital of Bordeaux + No no, but it's him, listen to this guy does not stop insulting me. No, I don't listen to it, I hang up if you do that, it's not complicated. »

And yes, the one whom 18 learned societies accuse of practicing charlatanism, shamelessly, is treated as a distinguished guest, on TV, where he does not hesitate to ridicule, to abuse, all those who have the audacity to dare to bring him the contradiction: "Were 30,000 patients guinea pigs without knowing it? No, but listen, stop your nonsense! »

Because on television, in France, Professor Raoult is not a charlatan, he is the boss: "Very well, we stop the interview now. No no no no no. »

And it's not him who breaks the law, it's the media who tell nonsense: "I don't read your nonsense, I don't listen to your TV, I don't read the newspapers that gossip about me, I don't do it, that's it."

This time, to find a contrast, a real, a marked, well we had to get into Spanish and go get an article from the other side of the Pyrenees!

It is indeed in the newspaper "La Vanguardia", it means "the avant-garde" that Bruno Donnet found the best treatment of this case.

The title of the paper, which appeared yesterday, could not be clearer, it is entitled: "El Charlatan de la Covid" ... the charlatan of the Covid, headline our Spanish colleagues, who under a large photo, full one, of Professor Raoult, write that he embodies "the caricature of the worst health populism" and that he exercised "a guru's activity at the worst moment of the pandemic, in front of complacent media that came, as if on pilgrimage, to interview him in Marseille".

Light sometimes arrives from where it is not expected.