[La mésinformation scientifique des jeunes à l’heure des réseaux sociaux - Fondation Jean-Jaurès]
I sum up for those who don’t speak French :
Among the young, 18-24, only 33% think that science benefits to humanity, 17 % think that effects are negative.
27% contest evolution, against 18 % among the seniors, 16% think that earth is flat, against 3% of the seniors.
Most of these young are heavy users of the social networks. And most are religious.
More surprising, 19 % of these young believe that Egyptian pyramids have been built by ET and 20 % think that the USA never landed on the moon, against 6 % of the seniors, many of them religious or Ultra-right.
They are more Anti-VAX than the elders, more permeable to Putin propaganda, 24 %think that the assault on the Capitol, on the 6th of January 2022, has been staged to accuse Trump and his followers.
66 % of the young believe at least at one of this false truths, but 85 % of the religious ones, against 62 % of no believers, 81 % of users of microblogging networks.
49 % think that astrology is a science.
I prefer to stop here.