Exactly, I didn’t want to amend their paper myself, I just wanted to tell them which parts were inaccurate so they could change it. It blatantly shows that they don’t care about sharing valid information and that they don’t give a shit about our work or the people they “inform”. And I’m talking about massive media’s like the discovery channel for instance. Ironically, one of the few who did a good job was a tiny web journal. They took my feedback into account and it was the best article about my work that was published that year.

I’ve been a researcher for over a decade and I literally started declining all media contacts because of my terrible experience with so-called “journalists”. Most of the journalists I interacted with did clearly not give a single shit about sharing my actual findings. All they want is a cool headline even if it means completely disrespecting years of work as well as their audience. I’ve seen journalists, who committed to take my feedback about whether they reported the theory or findings correctly, publish complete bullshit without checking with me. Others cited my paper while giving a summary of the findings of another paper and some literally and blatantly lied in a documentary. They still publish bullshit but at least they don’t waste my time anymore and I no longer read “scientific” papers available to the general public knowing what’s behind the scene.

I miss my granpa’s cooking. His “daube de boeuf” (a dish where beef morsels are slowly cooked in a red wine based sauce) was delicious and he would always make that simple but lovely dessert for me with a fresh fruit salad and gâteau de semoule. I miss him !

Don’t forget beans on toast, mint sauce and having to eat Brussels sprouts every year for Christmas.

That and “smile”. These make me wanna maim the guys who tells me this.

I called them the cute roaches

In France we have a saying “Si t’es pas de gauche, t’es de droite” i.e “if you’re not a leftist, then you’re on the right wing” meaning that if you do not explicitly reject the paradigm supported by the right then you’re implicitly accepting it and thus indirectly support right wing and conservatism.