This section brings together all the analyses classified under this theme.
Conspiracy theories are sea serpents of the human imagination. They were therefore not invented by the digital age. However, the deregulation of the cognitive market that the Internet represents has brought new vitality to these intellectual propositions. Gérald Bronner explains why.
In the two years that our Observatory has existed, the dual branch on which we must base our action has become increasingly clear: the autonomy of science on the epistemic level, and universalism on the political level. One and
Co-director of a collective work devoted to deconstructionism which "paralyses culture and terrorises debates", Emmanuelle Hénin describes how the "intellectual impostures" of wokism have become prevalent at university, and denounces "the advent of a cretinarchy".