Verbal abuse and bird names on social networks, a common practice… But more surprising on the part of doctors: one might think that social networks are only their outlet without consequence, but, Jean-Bernard Gervais is one example, the hateful behavior of a doctors’ clique has real-life implications. He recounts in his book the training, the methods, and the misdeeds of a very active network of doctors and scientists who, with complete impunity, launch cabals, insult, defame and go after those who do not have the happy to share their positions.
See also: “And it says doctor” by Jean-Bernard Gervais, Time.news of online medical hatred
He says that their fight is not neutral, underlines their politicization for many: ideological fight, partisan or union interests… Also relating the impossible relativization of the covid crisis, a sacred cow which it was impossible to say that it was n was medically not very interesting, his investigation allows us to take a step back from this digital trench warfare in which almost all shots are allowed.
Without denying the attacks they too have suffered, he wishes to restore the balance by enlightening this sphere which has a storefront in the media, without ever being confronted with its practices, by the media which relay their positions. An investigation that takes a step back from the quarrels of the last two years, and which recapitulates a violence, revealing and prescriptive, that we (re)discover with dread.