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Journaliste scientifique, rédacteur en chef de Science-Presse : @sciencepresse.bsky.social La rubrique de fact-checking Le #DétecteurDeRumeurs. Le cours en ligne Décoder l’info scientifique. www.sciencepresse.qc.ca

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After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears

2/ Et aussi: «Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement on Friday. Late Saturday morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of his fishing with his family on social media, Mr. Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account» www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

10.08.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« One employee described the shooting as “the culmination of ongoing animosity toward CDC and the work that we do.” Another named Kennedy in a comment: “We need them to stop fanning the flames of hatred against us... We will not be safe until they stop their attacks against us.”«

10.08.2025 01:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

This article is so good but also crushing, because it's such a microcosm of everything right now where people never have to deal with the cognitive dissonance from any conflicting values they hold, because a justification is always a click away. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

09.08.2025 23:36 — 👍 51    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1
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RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.

La guerre à l’expertise, exemple 257 «What this decision signals about the relationship between expertise and policy. The mRNA vaccines were developed by scientists, tested by clinicians, evaluated by statisticians, and approved by regulatory experts. Yet all of this is being overruled»

09.08.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants

L’avenir de la recherche scientifique US? «Instead of experts setting funding decisions and priorities, the order places that authority with presidential appointees who are directed to use their “independent judgment” and “advance the President’s policy priorities » www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...

09.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Intéressante enfilade. Le taux de criminalité diminue d’année en année, mais la couverture médiatique donne l’impression contraire.

08.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Despite RFK’s funding block, mRNA vaccines are too impressive to ignore Scientists fear decision may increase vaccine hesitancy, but other countries are still willing to invest in research

RFK: désinformation nationale, impacts internationaux. « If one of the largest markets in the world decides not to invest in mRNA, manufacturers will be less willing to invest their own resources in the technology. The wider implications could be that the world is less safe »

07.08.2025 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Il n’a pas un grand avenir dans l’enseignement des mathématiques.

05.08.2025 02:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

«Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. Suddenly, a child starts losing. “He cheated!” the losing child yells. “I’m the winner anyway!” And then, he flips the board. In the world of kindergarten, we expect this kind of behavior.

What do we do when the president behaves this way?

05.08.2025 02:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How misinformation spreaders reframe news from reputable sources to support false claims A growing body of research tracking the spread of misinformation online has largely focused on presumably false stories from unreliable sources—websites that fabricate content or intentionally mislead...

Étude : Les désinformateurs aiment bien utiliser des titres d’articles de vrais médias qui donnent l’impression d’appuyer leurs croyances. « They are leveraging the credibility of these sources to give more weight to their own narrative. » phys.org/news/2025-07...

05.08.2025 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« A man staring into a phone is not sexy. But a man with a book has become so rare, such an object of fantasy, that there’s a popular Instagram account called “Hot Dudes Reading.” »

03.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/2 On voit ça aussi dans les dictatures bsky.app/profile/atru...

02.08.2025 03:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Says He’ll Fire BLS Head After Weak Jobs Data President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth, prompting outcries from economists and policymakers over the integrity of the data ...

1/2 Déni de la réalité : s’attaquer aux journalistes, puis aux experts, puis aux universités. Et à présent, aux statistiques. « President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth » www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

02.08.2025 02:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

En complément : « Top scientists told Thursday their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming » www.barrons.com/news/us-ener...

02.08.2025 02:22 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Après avoir cité des études sur les vaccins et leur avoir fait dire ce qu’elles ne disaient pas, les fonctionnaires trumpistes répètent le même exercice avec des études sur le climat

31.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Parmi les beaux hommages à Pierre Foglia lus aujourd'hui.

30.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« Avec ses mots, Foglia savait comme nul autre faire naître des images dans nos esprits. Il était un projectionniste de l’âme. Explorant d’un bout à l’autre le spectre des émotions, il faisait rire, rager, pleurer, rêver. Il s’indignait aussi, remettait tout en question »

30.07.2025 02:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cette recommandation arrive un millier d’années trop tard.

27.07.2025 02:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« Activists have been shouting from the sidelines for decades. Now they are making policy. »

27.07.2025 01:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Extreme weather misinformation ‘putting lives at risk,’ study warns Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.

Après avoir découvert il y a quelques années que la desinfo en santé, ça peut tuer, place à la désinfo météorologique. « The rapid spread of climate conspiracies online isn’t accidental. It’s baked into a business model that profits from outrage and division » www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

24.07.2025 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brillant.

23.07.2025 01:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enfilade. « The number and spread of actions means it remains hard for media outlets to cover the range of attacks and for people to absorb the scale of what is going on.

It is exactly this ‘overview gap’ that I hope this website helps fil »

23.07.2025 00:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Journalistes à Gaza | Nous refusons de les voir mourir Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir, alertent les cosignataires de cette lettre, qui rapportent les conditions dans lesquelles leurs collègues sont forcés de travai...

La lettre qui a bcp circulé hier, reprise dans La Presse: «Depuis que l’AFP a été fondée en1944, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, nous avons eu des blessés et des prisonniers dans nos rangs, mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d’avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim»

23.07.2025 00:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/2 «Our information environment has become one huge false-balance machine. Fringe and disproven marginal ideas are being presented as having equal weight as large bodies of evidence. This kind of bothsidesism can dupe the public about what the science actually says, normalizing harmful lies»

22.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

À lire. 1/2 «People’s positions on everything from raw milk and miracle supplements to reproductive care, gender, and diet are often shaped by how they vote. And this matters. Once a topic becomes a proxy for political principles, it is more difficult to change minds »

22.07.2025 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Far-right influencer denounces Trump over Epstein: "Liberals were right" Nick Fuentes dined with Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and supported Trump in the 2024 election—but he ultimately refused to endorse him.

«When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had» -Nick Fuentes, influenceur d’extrême-droite, raciste et (ex)trumpiste www.newsweek.com/right-wing-i...

20.07.2025 01:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

C’est quand même fascinant que ce soit à cause des #EpsteinFiles que certains s’en aperçoivent. « Trump’s supporters thought he would shed light on shady elites protecting their own money and power. Now MAGA is reckoning with the fact that Trump is the shady elite »

20.07.2025 01:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

« Whether Coca-Cola contains cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, it will still contain virtually the same amount of calories and lots of sugar »

19.07.2025 02:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IA et démocratie : concilier les gains et les risques L’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) suscite un intérêt croissant dans l’administration publique en raison de son potentiel de gain d’efficacité. Cela comporte toutefois des risques pour la démocratie, comme le souligne une étude menée par des scientifiques britanniques.

L’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) suscite un intérêt croissant dans l’administration publique en raison de son potentiel de gain d’efficacité. Cela comporte toutefois des risques pour la démocratie, comme le souligne une étude.

https://loom.ly/dC0zn2E

17.07.2025 08:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Si Q était encore là, il serait un peu confus.

17.07.2025 03:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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