Instead of splitting up into sects – science, open science, pseudo science – science should reconsider their basics. A most important aspect here is interdependency. The outcomes and values we find by measurement in system A do not tell us something about system A; they tell us something about a surrounding system B, in which […]

Only a few years after WWII, the whole world agreed upon human rights. On paper, we declared each individuals basic rights, and the idea was that each and every country would build their social and judicial systems upon this fundament. Now, more than 60 years later, violation of human rights is still a huge problem. […]

Violence is a huge problem; it should no longer be denied. Violence needs to be a field of science. It should start some serious research into the fundamental cause of violence. It should answer the question, why our primitive sense of justice prevails over intelligent justice. It should investigate the mechanisms people use to justify their violence. It […]

How can corruption survive and spread? An important subject in this context is the matter of obedience. Experiments have been done on the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Surprisingly, the result was that very few people have the resources needed to resist […]