Het lot van Covid-dissidenten

Het lot van Covid-dissidenten

Een opsomming van Covid-dissidente wetenschappers, politici en andere publieke figuren. Het vormt een storyline waar zowel Orwell als Kafka goed mee ut de voeten zouden kunnen.

The mediacracy as the driver behind mass formation

The mediacracy as the driver behind mass formation

The crisis of modern science is often explained by political influence, economic pressure or collective fear. Those explanations neglect how those different phenomena communicate with each other. The deeper cause lies in the...

The Mediacracy – 2

The Mediacracy – 2

Looking back on the corona policy, it is stated that the government “listened to the population” in 2021. The broad support for large-scale vaccination campaigns is presented as a spontaneous social call, to which policy responded adequately....

The Mediacracy – 1

The Mediacracy – 1

The previous article pointed out that modern institutions - science, policy and traditional media Traditional media in this article: editorially embedded news organizations, regardless of platform (print, TV or digital) - are intertwined in such a way...

The dilemma of anti-institutional science

The dilemma of anti-institutional science

Science and government policy are at odds with each other: where science seeks improvement and innovation by rejecting previous conclusions, the government strives for consistency and stability based on a chosen course. A marriage of convenience in the...