Cees Mul, frequent reader and commenter of this site, has a ticket left for Battle For Science on Tuesday, February 10 in Apeldoorn. It starts at 6pm. Battle For Science is a conference organized by Lighthouse with an incredible line-up. Look at...
Where is the science?
The past six years have been dominated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and efforts to limit the impact of the pandemic. Science played a central role in this. However, as time goes by, more and more questions arise about that role. What initially...
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
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...
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...
Vaccinst studies Restore trust in science
In 1942 schreef de Duitse natuurkundige Max Planck in zijn autobiografie: "Een nieuwe wetenschappelijke waarheid zegeviert niet doordat tegenstanders overtuigd raken en hun ongelijk erkennen, maar doordat de tegenstanders geleidelijk uitsterven en een nieuwe generatie...
A reversed Agemaatje by Grok (Watch till the end!)
Reading time: 4 minutes. You can skip the openers (interesting but very long-winded). A.I. is often used to prove how things are. And indeed, if you are looking for confirmation for things you already know, you usually succeed. But if those things...
We don't really get older but on average we do
A cryptic headline, prompted by my birthday today. I would therefore like to treat the readers of my blog to a new little discovery. Because if you know little, you make a lot of discoveries! The average Dutch person is getting older, I realize that today...
Opacity and unwillingness: the quest of Bram Bakker, Jona Walk and Ronald Meester
Jona Walk, Bram Bakker and Ronald Meester took the initiative to carry out an analysis, together with the Lareb. How that worked out can be read on their brand new Substack Insight Out. Once again, an institute is holding its cards close to its chest, implicitly suggesting...
Cruciale aanvulling op de open brief van Maurice aan Robbert Dijkgraaf
Robbert Dijkgraaf staat voor mij model voor de vriendelijke, intelligente, erudiete, geïnteresseerde en beschaafde intellectueel met groot vertrouwen in de instituten waarbinnen hij die overdaad aan talenten heeft weten te verzilveren. Het verband tussen een "hoog IQ"...
Naomi Wolf: Pfizer Papers en Jessica Rose: Expert Report
Twee onderwerpen. Naomi Wolf collationeerde het boek "The Pfizer Papers" met schokkende feiten uit -na rechterlijke dwang- vrijgegeven Pfizer/FDA documenten. Jessica Rose werd ingeschakeld om haar 'expert opinion' te geven bij een rechtszaak tegen een coronakritische...
What happened in 2021?
When we talk about the corona crisis, we always start in 2020, but why? The problems only started in 2021 and I will show you why. First, let's go back to 2017, when life was still normal. We look at the mortality rates from 2017 to 2021....
