Pascal Lapointe
L'Agence Science Presse Editor-in-chief
Pascal Lapointe has been a science journalist for 25 years and is editor-in-chief of Agence Science-Presse, a non-profit Quebec media that feeds other news media on science. Exploring the links between science and politics, the Agence Science-Presse has broadcast since 2008 its radio show “Je vote pour la science” (I vote for science). In anticipation of the phenomenon of false news, they also created the “Détecteur de Rumeurs” (Rumor Detector) in 2016, the first fact-checking initiative specially dedicated to science news.