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The guidelines for scientific integrity
What exactly is Scientific Integrity? It can be found in a PDF on the Academy's website, this file. It lists a few things in an accessible way. The Code of Conduct is built on the core values: Honesty Due Diligence Transparency...
Drip virology, zoonosis and disproportionate measures fit together seamlessly
Shortlink: t.ly/WUMpv The persistence with which our government virologists continue to deny evident scientifically substantiated facts has given the impression that we are dealing with a fossilized field. Or with an unfortunate selection of incompetent...
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Face masks revisited
Two weeks ago I was on vacation in New York. The city is bursting with beautiful places and impressive sights, but one thing immediately struck me: the number of people who were still wearing a face mask. In the metro, in museums, in theaters and even just on...
Wrong models
We regularly see forecasts suggesting that excess mortality is over. Time and again this is based on incorrectly merging cohorts, from which incorrect conclusions are then drawn. This article can also be read on the site...
Important update in The Telegraph. Hello Keulemans?
The article about Deltavax and its English variantData camouflage in NL and UK: Deltavax in two languages was not widely read and responses were not forthcoming. It may be a bad or unappealing article, or it may have been too early. Hence this afterburner. Who the...
Data camouflage in NL and UK: Deltavax in two languages
“Wie na elke tegenwerping een nieuw argument inbrengt, wekt de indruk een onderliggend motief te verhullen.” "Concealing core argumentation sequence" aka "The Hidden Argument Salad" Er mist een term in de argumentatietheorie: "Concealing core argumentation sequence"...
2024 compared to 2019 in age cohorts M/F
Do we remember Jan van der Zanden's controversial interview at Blckbx? In June 2021, he sat down with Flavio Pasquino to denounce the lockdown policy. Article Former CBS director points out horrifying figures One of the first...
Post-war birth waves and mortality expectations: the gray buffer of death
Mortality rates are often assessed without taking into account the demographics of the population. Yet that demography largely determines what we can expect, better than comparisons with mortality trends from a previous period, let alone from one year in which you...
Mortality in the Netherlands per 100K in 5 years of cohorts (graphs) and Why Standard Mortality?
Much appreciated and no less critical Virusvaria reader Jan van der Zanden wanted to see the 5-year cohorts per 100K. The Norm Mortality raised questions, which we will answer later in the article. We present the standard mortality as a baseline so that...
The curse of the sewer ghost deciphered: how excess mortality ended up as Covid mortality
A real 'blog' article: report of my LinkedIn trip last weekend to LinkedIn and back. A journey past IFR deniers, steaming sewage water, anti-CBS extremists and vaccine knights where there is nothing to fight. tl;dr? Despite ChatGPT's glowing review?...
Pension: an economic explanation for the rejection of the Mortality Standard
Virusvaria reader JVI, name known to the editors, commented on the previous post, which I would like to present here as an independent article (illustrated with my own graph and table). Especially since another highly valued reader and contributor, Jan van...
RIVM emphasizes the need for standard mortality model
On April 1, 2025, the House of Representatives took a motion by Ria de Korte (NSC) The motion by Ria de Korte in which two questions were asked to RIVM. Firstly, it was asked to reflect on their calculation model for excess mortality and second to explain on which ...
The New World with Marlies Dekkers and Maarten Keulemans (Reaction)
On x @bumblebeejoe aka Jan B. Hommel aka Jan Bonte encouraged us to watch the DNW interview of Marlies Dekkers with Maarten Keulemans, just because of the pure, driven, authentic Marlies that I can imagine that they are precisely opposite ...
COVID vaccines: Costs and benefits in years of life
A hard data analysis, by Herman Steigstra and Schrijver this, deals with the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines in the Netherlands on the basis of CBS data, in combination with knowledge gained from previous flu waves. Out mortality and underput in 2020 to ...
