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In February, [[2023]]  a court in [[Groningen]] agreed that the University may sack [[Tjeerd Andringa]], a lecturer who reportedly spread [[conspiracy theories]] during lessons.<ref name=fired/>
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In February, [[2023]]  a court in [[Groningen]] agreed that the University may sack [[Tjeerd Andringa]], a lecturer who reportedly spread what they referred to as "[[conspiracy theories]]" during lessons.<ref name=fired/>
  
 
Andringa, a mathematician and physicist, was given an official warning in [[2022]], when one student dobbed him in, but the university later decided to scrap the course altogether.<ref name=critical/>  The university said it wanted to sack Andringa because  disagreements over teaching methods 'Andringa has his views on his teaching methods. We also have our views,' a spokesman stated. 'We couldn’t reach an agreement which is why we asked the courts to decide.' Andringa said after the verdict that he had no comment to make, by mutual consent.<ref name=fired>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/university-cleared-to-sack-lecturer-who-spread-conspiracy-theories/</ref><ref name=critical>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/01/groningen-university-cancels-critical-thinking-course-after-alternative-truth-complaints/</ref>
 
Andringa, a mathematician and physicist, was given an official warning in [[2022]], when one student dobbed him in, but the university later decided to scrap the course altogether.<ref name=critical/>  The university said it wanted to sack Andringa because  disagreements over teaching methods 'Andringa has his views on his teaching methods. We also have our views,' a spokesman stated. 'We couldn’t reach an agreement which is why we asked the courts to decide.' Andringa said after the verdict that he had no comment to make, by mutual consent.<ref name=fired>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/02/university-cleared-to-sack-lecturer-who-spread-conspiracy-theories/</ref><ref name=critical>https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/01/groningen-university-cancels-critical-thinking-course-after-alternative-truth-complaints/</ref>
  
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MottoVerbum domini lucerna pedibus nostris
Formation1614
HeadquartersGroningen, Netherlands
Type Public research university
Interest ofShell
Several deep state actors from the University of Groningen are helping criminals obtain EU passports

The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1614 and is the second-oldest university in the Netherlands. In 2014, the university celebrated its 400th anniversary.[1]

The University of Groningen has eleven faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175-degree programmes. The university's alumni and faculty include Johann Bernoulli, Aletta Jacobs, four Nobel Prize winners, nine Spinoza Prize winners, one Stevin Prize winner, royalty, multiple mayors, the first president of the European Central Bank, and a secretary general of NATO.

Deep State ties

Several deep state actors from the university are helping criminals obtain EU passports in Malta viewable on Nieuwsuur's YouTube channel.[2]

Politicized psychiatry

In 2021, 9 academics from the university published a "study" with the title Are conspiracy theorists psychotic?. It concludes that:

"Extreme conspirational thinking seems to fit current psychiatric definitions of paranoid delusions, but there are also important differences. To make a distinction with regard to conspiratorial thinking, deepening of conventional definitions of delusions is required. Instead of the strong focus on the erroneous content of delusions, more attention should be given to the underlying idiosyncratic, changed way of experiencing reality".[3]
The conspiracy theories in the corona pandemic show that this definition may need tightening or deepening....However, the bizarre, impossible content of extreme Corona conspiracy theories is very similar to the content of paranoid delusions. In both cases, the ideas are wrong on rational and objective grounds. In recent years, the continuum model of psychosis has been widely used, in which paranoid delusions do not qualitatively differ from normal suspicious thoughts, but only gradually differ from them in the degree of conviction, preoccupation, pressure of suffering and irrational content. Conspiracy thinking could be considered along the same continuum. The question then is when conspiracy theories are irrational enough to be labeled as delusional and how to determine whether the theory in question is sufficiently an incorrect inference from external reality.[3]

Sacking of 'critical thinking’ professor

In February, 2023 a court in Groningen agreed that the University may sack Tjeerd Andringa, a lecturer who reportedly spread what they referred to as "conspiracy theories" during lessons.[4]

Andringa, a mathematician and physicist, was given an official warning in 2022, when one student dobbed him in, but the university later decided to scrap the course altogether.[5] The university said it wanted to sack Andringa because disagreements over teaching methods 'Andringa has his views on his teaching methods. We also have our views,' a spokesman stated. 'We couldn’t reach an agreement which is why we asked the courts to decide.' Andringa said after the verdict that he had no comment to make, by mutual consent.[4][5]


 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEnd
Marc ChavannesProfessor for journalism20062012

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Tjeerd AndringaResearcher
Academic
Teacher
Stef Blok10 December 1964NetherlandsPolitician
Banker
Banker and parliamentary leader of Mark Rutte's VVD party from 2010 to 2012. Dutch Minister for Housing and the Central Government Sector in second Rutte-cabinet. Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs in third Rutte coalition.
Marc Bolland28 March 1959NetherlandsBusinesspersonDutch businessman who was the CEO of Marks & Spencer, after having been CEO of Morrisons.
Dolf van den Brink1973NetherlandsBusinesspersonCEO of Heineken. Committed to Net Zero. Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Wim Duisenberg9 July 193531 July 2005NetherlandsPolitician
Central banker
President of the European Central Bank, 7 Bilderbergs
Pim Fortuyn19 February 19486 May 2002NetherlandsPoliticianAn assassinated Dutch politician
Sijbren de JongNetherlandsConsultant
Geographer
Deep state operative
Social scientist
A vocal strategic analyst for the IfS, vitally helped with the set-up of the Dutch Cluster of the II with his employer and the Dutch MOD.
Klaas Knot14 April 1967NetherlandsFinancierBIS, 4 Bilderbergs, Central banker,Trilateral Commission
Paul Polman11 July 1956NetherlandsBusinesspersonBilderberger who was made a member of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19
Rianne Siebenga1991NetherlandsScientist
Deep state operative
"Terror expert"
A secretive colleague of II-member Sijbren de Jong specialized in "counterterrorism".
Winnie Sorgdrager4 June 1948NetherlandsPolitician
Lawyer
Deep state operative
Arnold Croiset van Uchelen1962NetherlandsLawyerCounsel for the Dutch royal family
Karel VerhoevenBelgiumEditorBelgian corporate editor. Bilderberg/2024.
Willem Vermeend21 December 1948NetherlandsPolitician
Propagandist
Academic
Deep politician
Spooky former minister turned disinformation-agent. Launched Rian van Rijbroek's career.
Sahra Wagenknecht16 July 1969GermanyPolitician
Dissident
German dissident politician from Die Linke.
Hans Wijers11 January 1951NetherlandsPolitician
Businessperson
Dutch very centrally placed business executive. Bilderberg/2004 and Bilderberg/2009. Member of the Trilateral Commission’s Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition
Jaap Winter1963NetherlandsLawyerDutch corporate lawyer who was chairman of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts set up in 2001 by the European Commission to advise it on a new regulatory framework for company law in Europe. Attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.
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