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Michael Specter : les dangers du rejet de la science.

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Les revendications des autistes de la vaccination, les interdictions concernant les OGM, la mode des soins à base de plantes : tout cela renvoie à la peur croissante (et souvent au rejet a priori) de la science et de la raison, déclare Michael Specter. Il nous met en garde contre cette tendance qui pourrait conduire à un désastre pour le progrès de l'humanité.

Michael Specter is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book, Denialism, asks why we have increasingly begun to fear scientific advances instead of embracing them. Full bio »

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Reviewed by Louis-Philippe Thouin
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