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Share of young people aged 18 to 24 believing in a selection of "alternative truth" theories that do not correspond to facts proven by science, in France in 2022

Characteristic	Respondents' share
mRNA COVID vaccines cause irreversible damage to children's organs	32%
The result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump	31%
Eating organic is useless	30%
Global warming is a natural phenomenon against which nothing can be done	29%
Humans are not the result of a long evolution but were created by a spiritual force	27%
En Ukraine, le massacre de civils à Boutcha était une mise en scène des autorités ukrainiennes	26%
Taking chloroquine is an effective treatment against Covid	25%
It is possible to have a safe abortion using herbal products	25%
NAN	24%
The Americans never went to the moon	20%
The Egyptian pyramids were built by extraterrestrials	19%
It is possible that the Earth is flat and not round	16%

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

October 28 - November 7, 2022

Number of respondents

942 respondents

Age group

18-24 years old

Special properties

Metropolitan France

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

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This chart shows the percentage of young people aged 18 to 24 who believe in a selection of "alternative truth" theories that do not correspond to facts proven by science, in France in 2022. More than 30 percent of young people in 2022 believed that Covid vaccines damaged children's organs, that the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged against Trump, and that eating organic food is useless.