Pepijn van Erp

A Dutch study into excess mortality caused quite a stir in June 2024, also internationally.

It was sometime in the fall of 2024 that Roeland Vollaard contacted the Stichting Skepsis, the Dutch Skeptics Foundation.

The story of Wim Hof and his method has always been scientifically rather thin on evidence, but that did not prevent him and his children from achieving worldwide success with it.

In 2020, I wrote a blog about the unique business model of Canadian entrepreneur Florian Kongoli.

In August 2023, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) introduced a policy concerning transgender chess players that quickly sparked widespread controversy.

The idea that artificial intelligence outperforms humans is almost nowhere more tangible than in the world of board games, such as chess and go.

Can a specially trained chatbot help dissuade people from believing in conspiracy theories?

On Tuesday 3 April 2018, George van Houts was a guest on the late-night talk show Pauw, the most prominent in the Netherlands then.

Via the Conspiracy Watch website, I came across this interesting interview about the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Much has already been written in blogs, newspapers and on X about the article “Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates from January 2020 to December 2022” that appeared in BMJ Public