13 juin 2024
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Jean-Baptiste André, « La couverture médiatique d'un essai sur l'évolution révèle des défaillances dans la diffusion de l'information scientifique », HAL-SHS : sciences de l'éducation, ID : 10670/1.2tf6k9
We are specialists in evolutionary biology, specialists in the study of misinformation, specialists in education, and, more broadly, scientists concerned about how our work is communicated. We wish to express our deep concern about the massive media coverage in France of a recent book on evolution by Daniel Milo, entitled "La survie des médiocres. Critique du darwinisme et du capitalisme" (Gallimard), and also to propose some simple principles for handling scientific information in the media in order to prevent similar cases of misinformation in the future.