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How can we use digital technology to build a more sustainable, efficient, and resilient healthcare system? A new research chair led by the University of Namur, in partnership with the Clinique Saint-Luc Bouge, will tackle this challenge.

On June 30, at the initiative of the Belgian Federal Nuclear Research Center (SCK CEN), the FNRS and the FWO awarded Professor Carine Michiels, a member of the NARILIS Institute and Télévie’s principal sponsor, the prestigious Roger Van Geen Chair for her exceptional contribution to research in nuclear medicine. In addition to a scientific award, this chair includes a series of lectures that the researcher will deliver this fall of 2026.

The measles vaccine supposedly causes autism. Global warming is supposedly just a natural phenomenon. Immigrants supposedly eat the neighborhood’s cats. These claims all have one thing in common: they have been disproved by the facts. Yet they continue to circulate, to be shared, and sometimes to influence elections. Even more surprising, some are repeated by figures in the highest political offices. What becomes of our relationship with the truth when opinion is presented as fact, when humor obscures intentions, and when information spreads without going through traditional intermediaries? To understand these changes, four researchers from UNamur share their perspectives. Behind the debates on fake news, they see a deeper shift taking shape: the truth still matters, but it is no longer always enough to convince people.