https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/One-Lab-Coat-Does-Not-a-Scientist-Make https://booksandideas.net/One-Lab-Coat-Does-Not-a-Scientist-Make 2023-04-18T11:48:45Z text/html en Sophie Houdart manipulation propaganda lobbies Science Cairn.info <p>The defense of science and reason is increasingly being instrumentalized by lobbyists hiding behind NGOs. This obscurantist undermining of experts benefits the industrialists these lobbyists are working for, and threatens the foundations of science.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Audio-power https://booksandideas.net/Audio-power 2018-10-04T07:30:00Z text/html en Loïc Bertrand Politics Arts music manipulation Florence Gould Foundation acoustics <p>Music naturally conveys emotion but, over the course of the 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century, it has also become a tool of manipulation and perhaps even a weapon of control. Juliette Volcler describes this process in her book devoted to the career and research of little-known sound engineer Harold Burris-Meyer.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Rethinking-Odious-Debt https://booksandideas.net/Rethinking-Odious-Debt 2018-03-19T08:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Pénet Economy International debt manipulation <p>The doctrine of ‘odious debt' has often been invoked to call for the cancellation of debts in very specific and complex political contexts. In this stimulating essay, Pierre Pénet endeavours to reconsider its application in today's society in a more flexible and comprehensive way.</p>