how does obscurantism undermine any debate? – Liberation

In the public debate, particularly on vaccines, the confusion between science and research parasitizes sometimes legitimate questions, caricaturing their authors as conspiracists, denounces the journalist Brice Perrier in his book “Obscurantism in Power”.

Brice Perrier is bold. He did not take an easy path by choosing to “think against.” Or rather by doubting dominant thoughts, in this case in the scientific field. “It wasn’t a vocation,” he defends himself. As a young journalist, he worked on a little bit of everything, then focused on the field of medicine and science, particularly in the weekly Marianne where he covered, among other things, the Covid years. But now, noticing in recent years that he was having more and more difficulty publishing these surveys, he took a step aside and launched a paid site, Sensible Reason. And he has just published a book Obscurantism in power, when dominant thought hinders knowledge, published by Max Milo.

“For me, it was confusing, I saw scientists, researchers who called themselves defenders of reason, and yet when we questioned a point, they did everything not to hear,” he explains to us. We understand, Brice Perrier is not quite in tune with the times. Brice Perrier is not suicidal either. Not without diplomacy, he begins his work by quoting at length the very respected Catherine Bréchignac, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, who