In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon checks all these theories with Stéphanie Benz, journalist in the Sciences department of L’Express, and Jean-Michel Lecerf, doctor specializing in nutrition at the Pasteur Institute in Lille.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing), Ambre Rosala (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Credits : France 5
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Burger/Phanie via AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: As you know, at L’Express, we always try to give you the tools to understand and respond to the supposedly scientific theories that can be seen on television, on social networks and in the pages of certain magazines.
For example, there is an episode that you are beginning to know well: it is our “survival kit in Absurdism”, to answer your colleague who thinks that the white contrails of the planes are chemical products dumped voluntarily on the population.
In another podcast, we also looked at where the immune debt theory came from, supposed to make us more vulnerable to certain diseases since Covid. During the pandemic, La Loupe had also provided you with the keys to try to answer your antivax uncle or cousin during family dinners.
We will be able to add the episode of the day to this list. It will again be a question of scientific fact-checking. But you are unlikely to be able to use our arguments over a meal, because we are going to talk about fasting… The practice is becoming more and more trendy, and its promises seem miraculous, from weight loss to the cure of serious illnesses.
Now you understand why I needed our auditor so badly. Today, we pass the reality of the benefits of fasting to the magnifying glass.
For further
PODCAST. The troubled studies of Didier Raoult, episode V
Pseudo-therapies and conspiracy: investigation of these gurus who worry the authorities
“Diets are counterproductive”: advice from scientists to keep the line
Osteopathy, naturopathy… “well-being” deserves better than the current laissez-faire