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Comment by utopiah

6 hours ago

He's quite popular in France in particular thanks to https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-convers...

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wiether  5 hours ago

Should have added context to my message but I'm French and lived in France all my life.

If his supposed popularity is coming from a spot on France Culture, I understand why I'm not familiar with him or his work

  • utopiah  4 hours ago

    I don't want to legitimatize anything but he has been on France Inter, RTL, TF1, France 5, France 3, Canal+, LCI, LCP, Arte, etc.

    Are you suggesting he isn't actually popular or rather than you do not listen to France Culture or yet something else?

    I'm a bit confused as it's quite easy to check that he is indeed famous (again, not claiming it has any consequence on this work) in France related to popularizing science. I would bet, but feel free to ask around, that most people interested in scientific popularization know of him, but please do ask around, I'd be curious if it's just in my social circles.

    • wiether  4 hours ago

      I don't listen to France Culture or any other radio station for that matter ; only FIP.

      And I don't watch TV so it won't help either.

      After posting my first comment I actually did asked, first at work and later to friends/family ; the only positive answer was from someone who listen to France Inter daily. Otherwise they said they never heard of the guy.

      Actually it's an interesting topic because it's far from the first time that I see some journalist talking about "someone famous", and yet I never heard of them.

      It seems that there's actually no real "mainstream medias" like it used to be when I grew up, where the vast majority of people were watching the 20h everyday. Talking to adults in their 20s is quite illuminating. Things we could consider "mainstream" are unknown to them. They don't even know they exists.

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