Tag: Science and Health
Why general practitioners are going on strike again despite “the triple epidemic”
This is a movement that promises to be less followed than that of early December. The liberal doctors are again called upon to close their offices from this Monday, December…
AI: researchers have (finally) found a real use for GPT-3
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) fascinate as much as they worry. With the development of language models like GPT-3 and ChatGPT – a less powerful but more conversational version –…
Mummies: an exhibition questions us about our relationship to death
By definition, there are two kinds of successful exhibitions: those that impress by the richness of what they present and those that raise questions by making those who come out…
Covid-19 slows but hospitals still saturated by triple epidemic
The ninth wave of Covid-19 begins to fall. On December 19, there were 50,602 new cases of Covid-19 in France, according to weekly data from Public Health France. A figure…
Explosion of Covid cases in China: what impact on Europe?
China has gone from a “zero Covid” strategy to… no plan. At the beginning of December, faced with the increase in contamination and the thousands of demonstrators in the streets…
Avian flu: why the epidemic will last
The vaccine was the last chance to save French poultry farms from the spread of the avian influenza epidemic, which is hitting the country in extraordinary proportions. However, according to…
Those who want to “decolonize” a science deemed too “Western”
“Indigenous knowledge can help advance scientific knowledge in some ways, but it is not science.” Published July 31, 2021 in the New Zealand weekly Listen, a column entitled “In defense…
“Beware of your brain”, a small manual of self-defense against cognitive biases
How to avoid errors of reasoning? This subject, studied at least since ancient Greece, has experienced great progress since the 1960s and 1970s and the development of research in psychology…
Covid-19: what will the new Sanofi vaccine which arrives in pharmacies be used for?
It arrives this Thursday in pharmacies, exactly two years behind the race for the first vaccines: the anti-Covid reminder from the French transnational company Sanofi will be available in pharmacies,…
Avian flu: why is the current epidemic the worst ever observed in Europe?
This is a dizzying figure, equivalent to the population of France in the early 1970s. Between October 2021 and November 2022, 50 million poultry were slaughtered on European soil, according…