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De grote misleiding
In Nederland is de situatie ontstaan dat vertegenwoordigers van justitie en politie geen moeite hebben om hun meningen in de krant te krijgen, terwijl mensen die op allerlei misstanden bij deze instanties wijzen de grootste moeite hebben om hun reacties geplaatst te krijgen of om zelfs maar door iemand gehoord … Continue Reading De grote misleiding
Wie hebben de petitie voor heropening van de Lucia de Berk zaak getekend?
Prof. Ybo Buruma is naast Wibi Soerjadi, Klaas Hendrikse en Arjan Dasselaar op 9 november 2007 opgetreden in “Pauw en Witteman”. Men kan zich afvragen of zo’n talkshow de juiste plaats is om over de Lucia de Berk zaak te praten. Dus, naast het gepraat over de nieuwe vleugel van … Continue Reading Wie hebben de petitie voor heropening van de Lucia de Berk zaak getekend?
After dark
Just read the book “After Dark” by Haruki Murakami. Since I am temporarily living in a town where it is somewhat hard (though not impossible) to buy books in another language than German, I read this in German translation. The original is in Japanese anyway, but what I found rather … Continue Reading After dark
The Lucia de Berk case, part 2
Making errors is so common in mathematics that there is not too much embarrassment about it. For example, both Cauchy (1789-1857) and Kummer (1810-1893) made a very serious error in attempting to prove the Fermat conjecture, which was finally proved by Andrew Wiles at the end of the previous century, … Continue Reading The Lucia de Berk case, part 2
Lucia de Berk and the amateur statisticians
My father was a judge. The only reason for bringing this up is that the cheapest argument, which has been used to fight people who have an opinion on the Lucia de Berk case which runs against the court decisions, is to say that they have no understanding of how … Continue Reading Lucia de Berk and the amateur statisticians
Ian McEwan and the bouquet series
Once upon a time… I knew a girl who would buy at the supermarket, together with the usual things one buys in a supermarket, a new small volume of the so-called “bouquet series”. She considered this to be a weakness or perhaps a “compulsion” (a rather innocent compulsion, perhaps similar … Continue Reading Ian McEwan and the bouquet series
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