Do we enter an obscurantist era? – release

In the United States, knowledge fell. Licensed researchers, blocked funding, prohibited words, web pages and blocked computer servers … despite a mobilization of researchers called « stand up for science », The Massive Attack on the Trump Administration against Public Research AgenciesAlready prevents work from completing in many areas, medicine, climate or study of inequalities. American historian of science, Robert Proctor believes that we enter a « Golden age of ignorance (1) ». But when did it start?

Already in 2021, in a speech given to the National Conservatism Conference, the current vice-president JD Vance declared: « We must attack the universities of this country »because they would lack their duty to disseminate the « truth » By approaching subjects such as anti -racism or gender transitions.

The historian Aude Fauvel (2) underlines that the expression « Golden age of ignorance » was already used to describe the first mandate of the billionaire to « Climatosceptic proclamations (…) which were followed by the abolition of federal budgets devoted to sustainable development and by harsh spikes directed against scientists ». Age of gold or not, remains at C