Chèvre Pensante: Glyphosate, a French Media Failure

Conclusion

71% of French people oppose glyphosate. [18] Given the imbalance of the current media offer on the subject, we can seriously ask ourselves if this opinion would not be at least partly influenced by the newspaper's orientation.

If we summarize:

The media offer  : 
■ The majority of articles available on the internet are directed against glyphosate. 
■ Glyphosate-friendly items are (almost) systematically fail to reach a large audience.

Ideological differences: 
■ The leftist media systematically criticize glyphosate. 
■ Right and neutral media are more measured.

Sources used: 
■  85% of glyphosate-friendly scientific agencies are systematically ignored. 
■ The media almost never question the specialists of the subject. 
■ The media quotes one out of two militant sources without expertise.

The arguments used: 
■ The arguments used to defend glyphosate are economic despite the existence of health and ecological arguments. 
■  Only 4% of articles explain that glyphosate is not dangerous.

Basically, how is it possible to form our own opinion on this subject, if our access to information is so restricted and oriented? Can we really stay objective in such a context?

These are the questions that make the controversy of glyphosate so exciting to study, it really deserves attention, if only for the wonderful exercise of critical thinking that it is.

Link to the original Chèvre Pensante article.