Sociologist Laurent Mucchielli called to order by CNRS – archyde

Is a sociological researcher justified in analyzing the adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccines? For the CNRS, the answer is no. In a press release, Tuesday, August 24, the organization “Deplores the public positions taken by certain scientists, often more concerned with ephemeral media glory than scientific truth, on subjects far from their fields of professional competence”.

Without naming him, the CNRS accuses one of its sociology research directors, Laurent Mucchielli, who has published, since March 2020, no less than sixty-three analyzes devoted to the health crisis on his blog hosted by Mediapart, one of which was unpublished on August 4 by the editor-in-chief on the grounds that it was broadcasting ” fake news “.

The sociologist, a specialist in delinquency and security policies, affirmed alongside other signatories, including two pharmacists and a doctor, that mass vaccination against Covid-19 led to “An unprecedented mortality in the history of modern medicine”. In the United States, she “Helped kill five times more people than the flu vaccination in thirty years”, he argued, based on pharmacovigilance surveys of different vaccines.

Scientists “harassed”

“These communications do not respect any of the rules in force in the context of scientific publications, in particular the judgment by peers, the only ones capable of controlling the rigor of the process”, decides the CNRS, which specifies that its ethics committee has ” recently “ approved a recommendation that “The researcher who works in the public space must specify in what capacity he is speaking”, as a specialist, as a representative of his research organization or as a “Committed citizen, even activist”.

Thanks to a tribune published in the columns of the World, Thursday, August 19, eight sociologists, including Gérald Bronner and Dominique Schnapper, had called on the CNRS to react, evoking the manipulation which consists in confusing deaths during a period following a vaccination with those caused by vaccination.

“Accountability is investigative work carried out by doctors and pharmacists specializing in pharmacovigilance. A sociologist could not take part ”, recalls Fabienne Blum, president of Citizen4Science, an association created at the end of 2020 to support scientists “Harassed” since the start of the health crisis.

An opinion that does not share Laurent Mucchielli. “Science is based on adversarial debate, the free discussion of data and reasoning, he defends himself in a written response to World. The CNRS would never have worried about it if it had not been harassed by my detractors. “