One of the striking phenomena of opinion formation is the moralizing trend that is there now. This is a kind of dictatorship of morality, which in itself is of course contradictory. But man is a being with an individual conscience, and in moral matters he engages individually with that conscience. And although we are dealing wit... read more...
The facts are the facts, and you can hide those facts for a long time with lies and sophisms, but they remain hard facts. History teaches us that those facts always come to light in the end. We have only just seen this in the case of the allowances affair (NL): the facts eventually come to light. This can go through a lot of suf... read more...
The scientist believes that the mind of the human being, or the algorithms and computer models created by humane, are able to fathom what measures should be taken and whether those measures are effective. But the measurements that science makes are merely a determination of a complex of variables that apply at that single point ... read more...
In this corona crisis, in which our society is driven to extremes, we see a phenomenon that is referred to by many as 'conspiracy thinking'. But where the term 'conspiracy thinker' carries a vicious mockery, we can give some homage to this thinker, who seeks the concept behind the incomprehensible phenomena. It i... read more...
Many people wonder whether they want to be vaccinated or not, regardless of any obligation to be vaccinated. It should be the free choice of each individual to consider receiving a vaccination, but for this consideration the individual needs to understand what a vaccination means and what the consequences of vaccination or non-v... read more...