An excerpt from Dr. Brigitte Milhau’s chronicle on CNEWS devoted to cocaine was broadcast on the Quotidien program on Tuesday evening. But the editing of the images produced clearly tends to divert the real message conveyed by our health specialist. This Wednesday, Brigitte Milhau denounced distorted remarks. An approach intended to damage his reputation and call into question his professionalism.
“Cocaine is nice in small doses”. By manipulating remarks under cover of a pseudo humor and extracting them from their original context, the presenter Yann Barthès contributed to shaping a false idea suggesting in a dishonest way that doctor Brigitte Milhau, our health specialist, would promote of the use of hard drugs. However, it is not so, is it really useful to specify it. “It’s incredibly intellectually dishonest. It is a bad intention of which I do not know the objective. They distorted my remarks”, regretted Brigitte Milhau this Wednesday.
Because taken as a whole, its scientific demonstration carried out this Tuesday on the antenna of CNEWS recalls that taking cocaine increases the concentration of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, neurotransmitters of pleasure, self-confidence and awakening. “When you see that you might think that your thing is nice. Not at all, it’s nice in small doses,” she says. However, it has escaped no one that the expression “your thing” refers to the increase in concentration of neurotransmitters of pleasure and well-being, and not to the taking of cocaine in itself. A message contrary to the false assertions made by Yann Barthès.
Moreover, throughout the program, Brigitte Milhau continues to warn against the consumption of narcotics. As here: “we must stop trivializing the use of this product which presents dangers and which goes so far as to destroy some of our neurons”. Or there: “it is a scourge that is spreading when it is an incredible danger”.
In this sense, the video still available on the site is totally misleading.
“Cocaine is nice, in small doses”
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This is not the first time that the TMC show has ostensibly attacked CNEWS. On May 31, Pascal Praud pointed to the work of Yann Barthès’ teams, accusing them already of having manipulated comments he had made about Karim Benzema. “I rarely respond to attacks. There, I will still respond to our friends from Daily. They implicated me. They listened to our program yesterday morning. Obviously, they didn’t listen to everything. Only a small part that they highlighted,” he said.