Author Archives: Frederik Nel

Bastiaan T Rutjensis an assistant professor at the psychology department of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific institutions and journals express their concerns aboutContinue reading “What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics”

By Kirsten van Heerden DAILY MAVERICK 22/05/2018 The stigma of mental health issues in elite athletes continues. Being mentally tough and mental illness are two concepts which are often confused when suffered in elite sport. Do you want to know what a panic attack in the middle of an NBA game feels like? Kevin LoveContinue reading “Can you be mentally tough, but still depressed”

There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it. What makes this paradoxical is that the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today doesContinue reading “Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now – Gloria Origgi”