This is the theme addressed by Etienne Klein in the fascinating lecture he has just given to the members of the Diderot Institute (accessible on their site under the title: “Is scientific popularization a failure?”).
And the physicist does not beat around the bush: “Whether on nuclear power, climate, vaccination, GMOs, the theory of evolution, science is becoming hostage to post-truth and misinformation.
“Imagine that, for centuries, everyone has been lying to you by saying that the earth is round, in reality it is flat!”: this conviction is shared by more and more people in the world, boosted by conspiracy theorists on social media.”
I would add that the hard sciences are not the only victims of this scourge if one thinks of the lies that invade the public arena in terms of economics or geopolitics during election campaigns and wars to the point that, sometimes, we literally feel surrounded by fake news that…
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