Health dictatorship.
Ego quarrels between doctors.
Tyranny of numbers.
Over the past year, these expressions have become familiar to us.
They are partly excessive, but also correspond to the reality we are living.
Science has taken power for better and for worse.
Politicians are hiding behind it to legitimize the freedom-killing constraints they impose on the population.
There are now 66 million epidemiologists in France;
as many as coaches of the France team during the football World Cups.
The figures - those of projections such as hospitalizations or contagion and now vaccination - govern us.
Science holds the helm of the state and reigns over our lives with an iron fist that willingly dispenses with a velvet glove.
We readily evoke the figure of Michel Foucault, who, in the 1970s, had prophesied the advent of what he called "biopolitics".
A few decades before him, an Englishman had
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