Jean Barbeau, microbiologiste Le consensus scientifique ne se résume pas à une majorité d’opinions alignées. Il est le fruit d’un processus collectif rigoureux, dans lequel des hypothèses, testées …

Il est parfaitement légitime et sain d’être sceptique face à une assertion scientifique. Mais il faut distinguer le scepticisme (doute) radical du doute méthodique ou mitigé. Selon Hume (1711-1776)…

Plusieurs journaux américains ont reçu un courrier inquisiteur du procureur fédéral du district de Columbia, leur reprochant d’être partisans dans le débat scientifique. Deux revues financées par des ...

Durant les années 1950, l’obésité était un phénomène marginal. L’Organisation mondiale de la santé qualifie la prévalence actuelle de l’obésité de pandémie. Au Québec, la proportion de personnes obèse...

Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed medical records of more than 3,000 patients who had been hospitalized for Covid between 2020 and 2022.

« Un million de morts en vain : la Russie n’a atteint aucun des objectifs stratégiques de son invasion à grande échelle. Et elle n’y parviendra pas », a assuré, en réaction, le ministre des affaires étrangères ukrainien, Andrii Sybiha.

The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.

Footage shared on social media shows huge clouds of black smoke after the eruption

Pékin a dénoncé lundi des accusations "fallacieuses" de non-respect de l'accord de la part de Washington et des mesures "discriminatoires". Les tensions repartent à la hausse, laissant craindre un retour du bras de fer entre les deux premières puissances économiques mondiales.

Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion

These are the key events on day 1,194 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned. The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas. Continue reading...

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Reza Khandan describes life in prison and his fight against mandatory hijab laws alongside his wife, Nasrin Sotoudeh

Low respect for international law and human rights set worrying precedent, international development minister says Israel is setting a dangerous precedent for international human rights law violations in Gaza that is making the whole world more dangerous, Norway’s international development minister has warned. Norway has played a historical role in the region, including by facilitating the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians that led to a celebrated breakthrough deal in 1993. Last year it recognised the Palestinian state, one of a minority of European countries to do so. Continue reading...

Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...