Does the song like scientists?

While a new reform of public research is launched by the President of the Republic, let us return to the image of researchers in our popular culture – and it is quite paradoxical.

We’re not there, no, like in Jean-Pierre Ferland’s song. But the scientists of France have been lamenting, and for years, a difficult situation – difficult budgetarily, difficult in relations with the administration, difficult in relations with political power and, we have been talking to you about it for a few days on France Info, President Macron wants to launch a new overhaul of public scientific research.

So, in the reactions to these announcements, two possible attitudes: we can consider that CNRS researchers earn too much money – this is the opinion of Carré rouge in feat at Le Rat Luciano, or we can remember a demonstration of researchers, roughly dispersed by the police like Monsieur R, in 2005.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:

Jean-Pierre Ferland, The Flying Saucer (the congress of scientists), 1975

The Rat Luciano feat. Red Square, Adrenaline, 2000

Mr R, FRANCE, 2005

Arma Jackson, Scientist, 2021

Serge Reggiani, The Last Tear, 1999

The Malpolis, The scientists, 2005

Satellites, Beware of scholars, 1989

Boris Vian, The Java of atomic bombs, 1956

The Malpolis, The scientists, 2005

Gianni Esposito, Lovers and scholars, 1967

Yves Duteil, The Scholars, the Poets and the Madmen, 1997

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