In the midst of a debate on the risks of the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the CNews reporter relayed with the utmost seriousness information created from scratch by a parody site.
For several days, Pascal Praud has devoted part of his show “L’heure des pros” to the subject of coronavirus. On Thursday morning, the CNews journalist could count on the expertise of Fatima Yadani, PS national assistant secretary and doctor of microbiology, to answer questions relating to the spread of the virus. “I heard this absolutely incredible information, fellatio is less contagious than shaking hands”, launched Pascal Praud.
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Faced with the mockery of his interlocutors, he added that he brought to the debate “A scientific element”. Puzzled, Fatima Yadani just replied that she was leaving him “Free of his words” without further comment. “To show how extremely dangerous the contagion of the hands is, I quote precisely a scientific element which you divert to make laugh”, he got annoyed. The alleged “Scientific element” advanced by Pascal Praud comes from the site Scienceinfo.fr in an article published Wednesday morning.
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“The World Health Organization (WHO) has just published a report specifying that fellatio poses less risk of contagion of the virus than a simple handshake”, can we read it. However, Science Info is not a rigorous scientific media but a parody site. “All the information exposed is, unfortunately for some and fortunately for others, fabricated from scratch”, emphasize the creators of the site in their presentation. “Don’t believe everything they tell you …”
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