{"id":177186,"date":"2025-03-27T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=177186"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:45","slug":"why-we-let-politicians-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/03\/27\/why-we-let-politicians-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we let politicians lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vicky Maeijer, the secretary of state for Health, must rewrite her final thesis as it has been revealed that she committed plagiarism. Journalists investigated this, and the examination committee of the Erasmus School of Law declared the master thesis invalid. This was possible because scientists must be transparent and indicate where they source their data from.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the political arena operates quite differently. Politicians are all too eager to leak information to journalists, provided their names are not mentioned. They then publish stories that people cannot verify, as we cannot see where the media obtained them. Journalists who condemn Maeijer often make the same mistake she does.<\/p>\n\n\t

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