Tag: Fischer
Covid-19: time to take stock for research and health, by Pr Alain Fischer
Everyone still has in mind the two years of human, health, economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even if we are not yet immune to a rebound,…
Promoting science: a democratic imperative, by Pr Alain Fischer
Scientific culture is part of culture in the same way as the arts. Perceiving, approaching, understanding the laws of nature, whether they are intuitively accessible or not, is a source…
Why it is illusory to hope to prolong human life, by Alain Fischer
Aging is a seemingly inevitable process that concerns us all, individually and through its effects on the community. Decreased physical strength, resistance to infections or the effects of extreme temperatures,…
Life expectancy and Covid: how vaccines have protected us, by Pr Alain Fischer
Covid-19 is undoubtedly responsible for the death of more than 16 million people worldwide, including more than 150,000 in France. It thus comes to interrupt the continuous increase in life…
“Vaccines and men”: ten errors and fake news deciphered by Professor Alain Fischer
The broadcast by the Franco-German television channel Arte on Tuesday, October 18 of the documentary entitled “Vaccines and men” sparked many reactions on social networks. This film, which claims to…
Exactly 50 years ago, one of the symbolic battles of the Cold War ended – Bobby Fischer broke the hegemony of the Soviet Union, but also fell apart
In the summer of 1972, the eyes of the world turned to Iceland. On the first day of September, almost two months of chess crunching ended with one phone call.…
Health diary: the chronicles of Pr Alain Fischer
Alain Fischer is professor emeritus at the Collège de France and co-founder of the Institute of Genetic Diseases (Imagine). On December 3, 2020, when the first vaccines against Covid-19 were…