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Sterile GMO seeds, allergies to cat hair… Some false information has a hard life. Our special issue twists the necks of 250 of them.
By Louise Cuneo
” The ideas received “, on newsstands (100 p., €8.90).
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Jules was not Caesar’s first name. Mosquitoes are not attracted to light. Do not put oil in the pasta water, it is not always polite to arrive on time, and theAlbinoni’s Adagio was not composed by Albinoni. ” Ah good ? ! Let it be said, we are gullible. We strongly believed in this false information conveyed throughout society for sometimes generations, without ever having verified it, without even knowing its origin. At a time when disinformation is gaining ground, Point separates the wheat from the chaff and puts an end to those certainties that deceive us. The special issue “Les Idées Received” thus twists the neck of more than 250 erroneous beliefs, yet commonly accepted, in 18 areas (animals, cooking, economy, children…
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