In November 2017, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, or Centre international de recherche sur le cancer in the original French) announced it is looking for a new Director. The posting
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At a time when science is increasingly challenged by pressure groups who would like to impose other paradigms on humanity, the death of Stephen Hawking is an opportunity for reflection,
A fortnight ago Virginie Tournay, of CEVIPOF, a scientific research institute at the famous Science Po [Paris Institute of Political Studies] published the following article on her Huffingtonpost blog “Reconquering
A recent controversy in France has centred on the teaching of mathematics. According to Luc Ferry, former Minister of Education, it has been reduced to a pure tool for student
At the AAAS Annual Convention this weekend in Austin, Pablo Ross of the University of California announced in a presentation “Towards Xenogeneic Generation of Human Organs” that he had managed
Last week, Elon Musk astonished planet Earth again by successfully launching his Falcon Heavy, the most powerful reusable rocket in current use. This exploit has been viewed by some unkind
The Lysenko affair: a comeback for the Fake News that led to millions of deaths?
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In a recent article in The Atlantic, Sam Kean, a US historian, says that Lysenkoism is regaining popularity in Russia. As a reminder, this ideology, which emerged in the 1920s
When we are cataloguing the pseudo-sciences, we often automatically include pessimistic and doom-mongering theories, but we rarely think to discuss ideas from the camp promoting the beneficial effects of scientific
In 2010, I carried out a small survey on how people talked about the precautionary principle on the Internet. I undertook a comparison of three languages, French, English and German.
Five lessons from the life of Marie Curie on the relationship between science and society
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The scientist Maria Sklodowska Curie was born in 1867. There have been numerous tributes to her on this 150th anniversary of her birth. But what lessons should be learned from