March 31, 2010
The Pirate Code on Trial
In the 2010 International Property Rights Index a series of case studies is included. I write about The Pirate Code on Trial- what future for intellectual property? on how the Swedish example shows that trials and crackdowns will become...Posted by Waldemar at 11:06 AM
August 23, 2009
Neuroactive chemical weapons
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics about Non-lethal, yet dangerous: neuroactive agents. Sandberg warns about the militarization of agents that alter mental states. While traditional chemical weapons are intended to hurt or kill people, these agents are intended to disable....Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 AM
August 07, 2009
The Attack of the killer robots
Anders Sandberg writes in Pratical Ethics about professor Noel Sharkey's warning that we are well on our way to get military killer robots that have great autonomy in applying deadly force. In Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized...Posted by Waldemar at 09:20 AM
August 04, 2009
SVT Gomorron om Stockholm Smokefest
Waldemar Ingdahl och Björn Fries debatterar cannabis och skadereducering på SVT Gomorron Sverige i samband med Stockholm Smokefest, läs mer här....Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
July 26, 2009
Ethics and cloned mice
Researchers have managed to produce live-born mice descended from induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS cells), cells taken from adult animals and treated to become stem cells. That individuals could be produced from embryonic stem cells was already known, but this...Posted by Waldemar at 05:55 PM
July 12, 2009
Hunger for life or calories
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics regarding the recent experiments with rapamycin and caloric restriction CR. In Hunger for long life: the ethics of caloric restriction experiments Sandberg writes regarding the ethics of animal experiments and the opportunity for prolonging...Posted by Waldemar at 09:10 PM
June 25, 2009
A street full of robots
That modern cars are becoming more digital is nothing new, but the trend has far-reaching consequences which will mean that cars go from being tools to become robots. Anders Sandberg writes about seven possible effects of the technologies that are...Posted by Waldemar at 11:30 AM
June 21, 2009
A little anonymity goes a long way
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics about the Night Jack case, where a UK court allowed the Times to expose the identity of a police blogger, which led to him being disciplined and his prize-winning blog deleted. In Sometimes justice...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 PM
June 19, 2009
An informal experimentation tragedy
Anders Sandberg writes about the case of Yolanda Cox in the Practical Ethics article Not better than the alternative: an informal experimentation tragedy. Police are reinvestigating the 2007 death of Yolanda Cox, a woman who collapsed in anaphylactic shock after...Posted by Waldemar at 03:05 PM
June 10, 2009
DNA databases: leave them kids alone
In Precrime in Camden: using DNA profiles for crime prevention Anders Sandberg writes about DNA databases in Practical Ethics. Although the European Court ruled that a policy of retaining profiles of innocent people is illegal, the British Home Office seems...Posted by Waldemar at 12:20 PM
June 08, 2009
1999 was our 1968
In the year 1999 the Extro-4 conference was held at the Joseph Wood Crutch Theater on the Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley. Anders Sandberg was interviewed in a series of five films on what developments have been seen...Posted by Waldemar at 09:20 AM
June 03, 2009
The suffering of the fluorescent monkey
Is it ethical to create research animals with disease genes that can be inherited by their offspring? The case of the genetically modified marmoset monkey in Japan, brings these questions forward. Is it right to make a monkey fluorescent? Anders...Posted by Waldemar at 07:45 AM
May 17, 2009
Liberal society requires abortion and sex selection
Anders Sandberg writes in Pratical Ethics about the difficult issue of sex selection and abortion. In Biting into the sour apple: liberal society, abortion rights and sex selection, Sandberg argue that there are no sufficiently compelling reasons to limit medical...Posted by Waldemar at 02:10 PM
May 06, 2009
Swine flu: is the WHO on track?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics on the H1N1 epidemic also known as the swine flu. In The flu paradox: is the WHO focusing too little on flu? Sandberg discusses the World Health Organization's increased emphasis on public health, in...Posted by Waldemar at 01:20 PM
April 30, 2009
File-sharing and piracy in The Christian Science Monitor
John Yemma quotes Anders Sandberg on file-sharing, internet piracy and the ethics of piracy in If file-sharing is piracy, what about aggregators? in The Christian Science Monitor of April 27th....Posted by Waldemar at 03:00 PM
April 19, 2009
Qui bono Pirate Bay?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics about the Pirate Bay trial and its effects on intellectual property in Intuitive pirates: why do we accept file sharing so much?. Sandberg writes that legally, at least in the sense of the spirit...Posted by Waldemar at 08:45 AM
April 14, 2009
Interview on memory editing drugs in Wired
Anders Sandberg is interviewed in Wired Magazine by Brandon Keim where Sandberg talks about The Messy Future of Memory-Editing Drugs. Will the new drugs be an opportunity to eliminate the crippling psychic effects of past trauma? Others see an ill-advised...Posted by Waldemar at 08:10 PM
April 08, 2009
Fixing society with technology
Anders Sandberg writes in Pratical Ethics about technological and biological solutions to society's problems. In Be mindful of results, not the method Sandberg argues that positive or game-changing side-effects exist for many technological fixes. The introduction of contraceptives empowered women,...Posted by Waldemar at 08:42 AM
April 04, 2009
The ecclesiastical gaydar
Anders Sandberg asks in Practical Ethics about Ecclesiastical gaydar: should churches be allowed to discriminate priests? In a free society there are instances where it is often within the rights of various institutions to discriminate. That doesn't mean they are...Posted by Waldemar at 02:57 PM
March 29, 2009
The Atlas Liberty Forum 2009
Waldemar Ingdahl from the Eudoxa think tank will speak at the Atlas Liberty Forum 2009 in the session Bringing Drugs to Market –Strategies to Develop a Free-Market Alternative. What are the obstacles to drug reform and how can we...Posted by Waldemar at 10:40 AM
March 12, 2009
Bad doctor, bad prosecutor or bad laws?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics on the collision between ethics, medical practice and the law in Bad doctor, bad prosecutor or bad laws? On March 2 police took a doctor into custody at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in...Posted by Waldemar at 01:00 AM
March 05, 2009
The battle of The Pirate Bay
Waldemar Ingdahl writes in the magazine EU Debate 2009 on March 5th in Intellectual property, Sweden and the battle of The Pirate Bay about The Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm, and its effects on Europe....Posted by Waldemar at 02:15 PM
February 20, 2009
Does memory editing threaten human identity?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics, about a paper demonstrating that a previously learned fearful reaction can be weakened using a drug. In the media it read that "drug can erase bad memories" and threaten human identity. In the article...Posted by Waldemar at 06:10 PM
February 18, 2009
The future of humanity
Transhumanism from Gary McQuiggin on Vimeo....Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
February 12, 2009
Transparent brains: detecting preferences with infrared light
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics Transparent brains: detecting preferences with infrared light. Researchers at University of Toronto have demonstrated that they can decode which of two drinks a test subject prefers by scanning their brains with infrared light. Would...Posted by Waldemar at 09:30 AM
February 06, 2009
Lies, libel and layered voice analysis
Two Swedish scientists Francisco Lacerda, professor of phonetics at Stockholm University and Anders Eriksson, professor of phonetics at the University of Gothenburg are threatened by legal action following the publication of an article on lie detectors. Anders Sandberg writes about...Posted by Waldemar at 02:20 PM
January 29, 2009
Cheaper, safer, easier IVF?
Two out of three women fail at each In vitro fertilization- IVF attempt, writes Anders Sandberg in Practical Ethics. Now Sandberg notes in Polar exploration: small steps towards cheaper, safer, easier IVF? that a new method of screening eggs for...Posted by Waldemar at 08:33 AM
January 24, 2009
Waldemar Ingdahl interviewed by Al Jazeera
Waldemar Ingdahl was interviewed by the Al Jazeera English newschannel about the current economic crisis, the present state of the Swedish model and how Sweden faired in the economic meltdown in the early 90's. The interview was held on the...Posted by Waldemar at 11:30 AM
January 02, 2009
Global Catastrophic Risks
Anders Sandberg held a presentation at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference series at GCR08, a meeting in Mountain View, California in November. The transcript can be found here. Global Catatrophic Risks: An Overview, and Caution about Risk Assessments from Jeriaska...Posted by Waldemar at 07:10 PM
December 10, 2008
Open source censorship
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics In Open Source Censorship Sandberg describes how a judge in Australia ruled that a cartoon showing a character from The Simpsons engaged in sexual activity is child pornography. Australia is also trying to implement...Posted by Waldemar at 03:15 PM
December 07, 2008
The perfect enhancer
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics Anders Sandberg reveals The perfect cognition enhancer- it is iodine. Iodine deficiency affects up to 2 billion people, impairing at least 18 million children mentally each year and most likely costing mankind several billion...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 AM
December 03, 2008
Keeping Viagra in the bedchamber and out of the arena?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics Sandberg notes in Keeping Viagra in the bedchamber and out of the arena? that Viagra may not just be a performance enhancer in the bedroom, but also on the sports arena. Researchers are studying...Posted by Waldemar at 07:05 AM
November 21, 2008
The International Leaders' Summit
Waldemar Ingdahl spoke on November 13th at the International Leaders' Summit at the European Parliament in Brussels. The summit included a most interesting list of speakers. From left to right: Waldemar Ingdahl, Julian Harris, Alec van Gelder and moderator Gregory...Posted by Waldemar at 09:30 AM
November 17, 2008
Will the football of the ice survive?
Bandy, the football of the ice, is at a crossroads writes Waldemar Ingdahl in Bandy– ice hockey in Sweden goes big in Europe because of growing international popularity and climate change and the need for indoor arenas. The article was...Posted by Waldemar at 07:10 AM
November 11, 2008
Why is there spam?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics Sandberg answers the question of why there is computer spam, and what can be done about it in Hacking the spammers through an interesting take on scientific research. More about spam, with a different...Posted by Waldemar at 10:40 AM
November 10, 2008
Banking lessons from Sweden
The Swedish banking model has become the focus interest for many nations during the financial crisis. Waldemar Ingdahl writes in The American on November 10th about som conclusions of Banking Lessions from Sweden. Many of the reasons behind the crisis...Posted by Waldemar at 10:45 AM
November 07, 2008
Going to work on smart drugs
Anders Sandberg is quoted by Jason Kirby on the development of smart drugs and enhancers in the article Going to work on smart drugs. "Cognitive enhancement drugs are going to involve trade-offs with evolution" Sandberg says in the article, published...Posted by Waldemar at 08:05 AM
November 06, 2008
Should We Be Erasing Memories?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics, together with S. Matthew Liao and Julian Savulescu. In Should We Be Erasing Memories? Liao, Sandberg and Savulescu consider the recent claim of scientists from the Medical College of Georgia to be able selectively...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
November 04, 2008
Should voting machines be trusted?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. Sandberg asks Election ex machina: should voting machines be trusted? Voting is more complex than it seems. Programmers and system designers working on crucial systems do have an ethical obligation to ensure that they...Posted by Waldemar at 01:50 AM
November 03, 2008
Learning from the old country
Waldemar Ingdahl writes at RegularFolksUnited.com In Learning from the Old Country he writes about Swedish snus, and how smokeless tobacco was previously used by Swedish-American immigrants in the earlier 20th century. When more people quit smoking, may there be an...Posted by Waldemar at 01:05 PM
October 31, 2008
The Future of Transatlantic Relations
Waldemar Ingdahl of the Eudoxa think tank is scheduled as a speaker at the Fifth Annual International Leaders Summit, November 12 and 13. The conference "The Future of Transatlantic Relations- Strategic Focus on Economics, Energy, Justice, Regulation, Security, Taxation and...Posted by Waldemar at 01:15 PM
October 27, 2008
Trendspotting and Future Thinking
On October 16th, Waldemar Ingdahl was invited by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship to act as a commentator to the final exams of the course Trendspotting and Future Thinking. Waldemar Ingdahl was part of a commentator panel following the format...Posted by Waldemar at 02:24 PM
October 22, 2008
The controversial test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In Finding holes in the brain: to test or not to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob?, Sandberg writes that a new test for carriers of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is under development. It raises an ethical problem:...Posted by Waldemar at 07:15 AM
October 15, 2008
The right to virtual property
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In Protectionist deities vs. the economy of fun: ownership of virtual possessions, Sandberg asks if players in online games have a right to their virtual possessions? The matter is a legal quagmire. Real money...Posted by Waldemar at 07:00 AM
October 08, 2008
The obligation to evolve
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. According to professor Steve Jones human evolution is grinding to a halt. The reason is, at least in the developed world, we have so good living standards and hence low mortality that we are...Posted by Waldemar at 10:20 PM
October 07, 2008
Andrew Sullivan mentions article on human extinction
Andrew Sullivan mentions in Delaying The Inevitable of October 5th on The Daily Dish of The Atlantic the article on how to reduce the risks for humanity written by Anders Sandberg, Jason G. Matheny and Milan M. Ćirković....Posted by Waldemar at 07:45 AM
October 06, 2008
The illusion of control and finance
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. Humans regularly see patterns where there are none, Sandberg notes in Fishing outside the reef: the illusion of control and finance, but stress makes this tendency worse. People see more illusory patterns in stock...Posted by Waldemar at 01:50 PM
October 01, 2008
Paying the price of Ignorance
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. Sandberg tears into the Durham fish oil trial in The price of ignorance: the Durham study and research ethics. The test whether giving omega-3 supplements would improve the GCSE scores of children has raised...Posted by Waldemar at 12:05 AM
September 23, 2008
The Last Amateurs
Waldemar Ingdahl describes how professionalisation has changed football. It is now more of a part of the entertainment industry, than a popular movement. This poses new challenges. In the article Allsvenskan, the last football amateurs in Café Babel of September...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
September 18, 2008
Wiretapping Sweden
Waldemar Ingdahl is interviewed by Urban Lifestyle for the documentary Wiretapping Sweden regarding the new Swedish anti-terrorist eavesdropping legislation....Posted by Waldemar at 05:00 PM
September 17, 2008
The "nasty party" has already defied Juncker's curse
Waldemar Ingdahl writes Swedish public considers controversial reforms too harsh in The Financial Times of September 17th regarding the reforms enacted by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's government and how the controversy surrounding the eavesdropping legislation of the Swedish National Defence...Posted by Waldemar at 09:10 AM
September 16, 2008
Cluedo in the brain
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article I suggest it was Professor Plum, in the library, with the arsenic: the unreliability of brain experience detection Sandberg writes about the recent conviction in Mumbai, India, based on EEG evidence....Posted by Waldemar at 01:30 PM
September 10, 2008
How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?
The Large Hadron Collider will be tested for the first time amid concern that the device could create a black hole that destroys the Earth. In occasion Anders Sandberg, Jason G. Matheny and Milan M. Ćirković write the article How...Posted by Waldemar at 04:50 PM
August 21, 2008
Digital drugs and regulation
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Silicon dreams: digital drugs and regulation Sandberg examines digital drugs. The origin of the idea is research into binaural beats, sending sounds with slightly different frequencies into the ears which then...Posted by Waldemar at 08:35 AM
August 13, 2008
IHRA conference 2008 in Barcelona: towards a global vision
Waldemar Ingdahl from the Eudoxa think tank partecipated at the annual conference of The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) held in 2008 in Barcelona between May 11th and 15th. Waldemar Ingdahl presents an extensive report on the seminars at the...Posted by Waldemar at 12:20 PM
August 12, 2008
Frihet för radion
Regeringen undersöker möjligheterna för en ny rikstäckande reklamfinansierad radiokanal. En mer betydelsefull frihetsreform vore att ta bort hindren för privata lokala radiostationer och skapa förutsättningar för reell mångfald i etern, argumenterar Waldemar Ingdahl. I Sydsvenska Dagbladet den 12 augusti Ge...Posted by Waldemar at 07:15 AM
July 30, 2008
Unlikely risks and fat tails
In his The Pulse article of July 29th Bangs and whimpers Anders Sandberg takes the long view of health risks. Sandberg reports from the Oxford Global Catastrofic Risks Conference, that while overall risks may have fallen, large and unlikely types...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
July 29, 2008
Think about the planet, stop having kids
Rafaela Hillerbrand writes in Practical Ethics about the points made by Anders Sandberg in The Pulse about the recent suggestions in the UK that doctors should talk to their patients about climate change and encourage them to think about the...Posted by Waldemar at 01:55 PM
July 21, 2008
Looking down the barrel of a gamma ray gun
Ronald Bailey mentions a talk by Anders Sandberg in Reason Magazine's Hit & Run section It Came From Outer Space. Sandberg discussed disaster prediction, read more about it here....Posted by Waldemar at 12:45 PM
July 18, 2008
Research to refute the refutable
In his The Pulse article of July 18th Binding Heavy Metal Fears Anders Sandberg asks when clinical trials are to check whether a treatment doesn't work OK? The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is studying chelation therapy because...Posted by Waldemar at 06:00 PM
July 15, 2008
The significance of cutting- edge drugs
In his The Pulse article of July 9th No Trials Please, We're British Anders Sandberg explains why big drug companies shift trials away from the UK, and why the pharmaceutical industry is languishing....Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
July 03, 2008
Down and out on Death Row
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Education and the Fairness of Capital Punishment Sandberg writes about a small neural network study that has shown that it is possible to predict who on death row who will be...Posted by Waldemar at 03:45 PM
July 01, 2008
Inexpensive and reliable disaster defence
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Duck and cover: how expensive does impact safety have to be? Sandberg examines disaster prediction models and how to set up civil defence plans. Using the example of asteroid impacts he...Posted by Waldemar at 09:15 AM
June 30, 2008
Drill as I say, Not as I Do
Lene Johansen writes the article Drill as I say, Not as I Do in Human Events of June 26th. Environmentalists seldom practice what they preach. Al Gore’s home uses enough electricity to power a small town. And the National Audubon...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
June 27, 2008
The right to genetic information
In his The Pulse article of June 26th Gatekeepers of the Genome Anders Sandberg discusses the possible reprecussions of the state of California sending a cease-and-desist letters to firms offering Web gene tests directly to consumers. Sandberg argues that personal...Posted by Waldemar at 08:05 AM
June 25, 2008
My genes, my choice
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article My Genes, not a Doctor's Sandberg protests against California's cease-and-desist letters to firms offering Web gene tests to consumers. He also counters the most common arguments against free access to genetic...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
June 24, 2008
Medical Tourism
In his The Pulse article of June 20th Rise of the Medical Tourist Guide Anders Sandberg writes on how medical tourism is increasingly forcing medical systems to compete in terms of price and service. But ensuring that medical tourism is...Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
June 17, 2008
Lex Orwell- tit for tat
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Lex Orwell: When is a Surveillance Society OK? Sandberg writes about the risks of a surveillance society and the recent bill to be put before the Swedish parliament (riksdag) allowing the...Posted by Waldemar at 07:10 AM
June 11, 2008
Morphological freedom with Anders Sandberg and Natasha Vita More
A video feed on the debate on morfological freedom between Anders Sandberg and Natasha Vita More in Second Life is now available from Blip.tv...Posted by Waldemar at 11:00 AM
June 10, 2008
Feedback on Health Journalism
In his The Pulse article of June 10th Improving Health Journalism with Reviewing Anders Sandberg describes an interesting new project; evaluating health journalism. The project also provides the evaluation to the journalist writing the article, gaining a positive response....Posted by Waldemar at 06:05 PM
Anders Sandberg om uploading
Erik Hörnfeldt omnämner hur Anders Sandberg berättat om uploading, att ladda ner en människas medvetande i en dator, i sin artikel Med hjärnan på hårddisken i Computer Sweden den 4 juni....Posted by Waldemar at 03:00 PM
June 09, 2008
Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond
Waldemar Ingdahl writes in the Foundation for Economic Education's magazine The Freeman April, Vol. 58 No. 3 a review of Barry Eichengreen's book The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. In the review of The European Economy Since...Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
June 06, 2008
Sugar pills for sale
In his The Pulse article of June 3rd Over-the-Counter Placebo Anders Sandberg writes about Obecalp, the first placebo medication on sale at the pharmacy. Obecalp is targeting parents that wish to help their children for imagined ailments without giving them...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
June 02, 2008
More isn't better
In his The Pulse article of May 29th Topping Up Our Pie Slices Anders Sandberg writes about how national health care systems always are low on resources and patients always desire better care than they can get. Increasing public expenditures...Posted by Waldemar at 07:35 AM
May 30, 2008
An argument for minarchist vaccination policies
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Preventing Polka-Dot Problems: Should Measles Vaccination be Compulsory? Sandberg argues from Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia about vaccinations. Vaccination is one of the real success stories of public health, yet...Posted by Waldemar at 07:30 AM
May 29, 2008
The ethics of brain boosters
Practical Ethics looks in Brain Boosting and Cheating in Exams: Four Responses at different aspects of drug use and mental health and finds a growing trend for off-label use of drugs intended for the treatment of diseases. The use of...Posted by Waldemar at 07:15 AM
May 22, 2008
The humane evolution
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Humane Evolution Sandberg discusses natural evolution. Natural evolution is not immoral since there is no moral agent responsible for it, but it is a quite painful process. Could it be more...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
May 20, 2008
Fighting Absenteeism with Voice Analysis
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article A Pipeline to Truth? Fighting Absenteeism with Voice Analysis Sandberg discusses the new generation of voice analysis software that listens in when someone calls in sick, and prompts the person talking...Posted by Waldemar at 07:05 AM
May 19, 2008
Is more information the solution?
In his The Pulse article of May 16th Man is a Biopolitical Animal Anders Sandberg argues about public debate. When it comes to a new and unfamiliar technology, people appear ready to judge it without needing to know any facts....Posted by Waldemar at 09:20 AM
May 17, 2008
Green flourescent human embryos
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Looking for Biopolitical Trouble Sandberg examines the recent news that researchers at Cornell university have developed a genetically modified human embryo expressing a green fluorescent protein. Are we already in a...Posted by Waldemar at 11:30 AM
May 15, 2008
The smart spy pill
In his The Pulse article of May 12th The Tell- tale Pill Anders Sandberg writes about a new smart pill from Proteus Biomedical that reports to the doctor when it has been taken. Given the great problems with patient compliance...Posted by Waldemar at 06:00 PM
May 11, 2008
Fast food junkies?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Hunger is the best spice Sandberg writes about ghrelin. Ghrelin is a hormone produced in the stomach that appears to stimulate appetite. There has recently been fear of fast food companies...Posted by Waldemar at 08:50 AM
May 09, 2008
Solving the food crisis
Lene Johansen writes in the American Spectator May 9th about the Food Fracas. She points out that there have recently been many calls to repeal biofuel mandates and subsidies, which would help to ease but not end food shortages. Estimates...Posted by Waldemar at 06:45 AM
May 08, 2008
A more productive way to health and development
Waldemar Ingdahl writes in The Providence Journal on May 7th about the recent developments in the WHO on pharmaceutical patents. In World disease not rooted in patents, Ingdahl explains that the problems surrounding public health in poorer countries are not...Posted by Waldemar at 12:15 AM
May 06, 2008
The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement
Pete Moore has written the book Enhancing Me: The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement. Moore writes about how science is developing human enhancement. He examines how technology can change our bodies, enhance our brains, modify our emotions, and...Posted by Waldemar at 09:50 AM
May 05, 2008
Paying people to be healthy
In his The Pulse article of May 2nd Paying people to be healthy Anders Sandberg writes about the new World Bank funded experiment in Tanzania. Young Tanzanians are paid a monetary reward if they avoid to get infected with HIV/AIDS....Posted by Waldemar at 07:05 AM
May 02, 2008
Mixing sex and health with money
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Reverse Prostitution: cognitive biases and conditional cash transfers Sandberg comments on a new strategy for fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. People are payed for not contracting sexually transmitted infections. Sandberg notes that...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 AM
April 30, 2008
Interview with MP Hans Rothenberg
An interview with MP Hans Rothenberg, regarding the ban on the sale of snus, is now available in English on the Eudoxa harm reduction site. For the Swedish version, see here....Posted by Waldemar at 01:00 PM
Global warming: fight or adapt?
Lene Johansen debates adaptation and climate change on the Thom Hartman program. Click here to listen to the show....Posted by Waldemar at 12:10 PM
April 25, 2008
The dignity of plants
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article The Dignity of the Carrot Sandberg writes that Swiss federal law now requires researchers experimenting on plants to consider the dignity of plants. To define this concept the Federal Ethics Committee...Posted by Waldemar at 08:20 AM
April 24, 2008
Nanny music from the EU
In his The Pulse article of April 23rd Brussels has managed to inadvertently regulate the style of future music Anders Sandberg writes how the European Union's workplace noice regulation stopped the world premiere of Dror Feiler's piece "State of Siege"....Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
April 22, 2008
Food crisis on the G. Gordon Liddy show
Lene Johansen is interviewed about the food crisis on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. Listen to the program here....Posted by Waldemar at 11:00 AM
April 17, 2008
Is free will an illusion?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Who's this 'we', Dr Soon? Unconscious Action and Moral Responsibility Sandberg writes about a recent study regarding free will. When and where do we have any choice in what we are...Posted by Waldemar at 07:30 AM
April 14, 2008
Enhancing Me at the Dana Centre
On April 29th, the Dana Centre in London will launch the book "Enhancing Me" by Peter Moore. Science and technology now allow us to change our bodies, brains and emotions. What drives us to want to be ‘superhuman’? Is it...Posted by Waldemar at 08:25 AM
April 10, 2008
Yes, researchers *are* on drugs
In his The Pulse article of April 10th Yes, researchers *are* on drugs Anders Sandberg scrutinizes a recent article in Nature and its reception in the media. While finding that the results of an online self-reported study have to be...Posted by Waldemar at 05:55 PM
Knowledge-economy workaholism
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article The stresses of 24 hour creative work: How much would Aristotle blog? Sandberg writes that in most creative tasks there are no predetermined endpoints; it is up to you to determine...Posted by Waldemar at 12:30 PM
March 31, 2008
When is it OK to destroy the Earth?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Extinction Risks and Particle Physics: When Are They Worth it? Sandberg writes about risk evaluation in inconjuction with the recent law suit against CERN. If there is a tiny risk that...Posted by Waldemar at 07:30 AM
March 30, 2008
The imminent food crisis
Lene Johansen is interviewed by Shirley Rooker at 107.7 FM WTOP News in Washington, DC. Johansen speaks about the imminent food crisis, why food prices are increasing world wide because of ethanol mandates, how plant biotechnology could help solve the...Posted by Waldemar at 12:12 PM
March 29, 2008
Anders Sandberg on the BBC
On Friday March 28th Anders Sandberg debated the future of farming on BBC Radio 4 with Robin Maynard, of the Soil Association and Professor Les Firbank from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. Listen to the programme here Is...Posted by Waldemar at 07:56 AM
March 25, 2008
The biotechnology spin-zone
Lene Johansen discusses the traceablity of seeds from molecular plant breeding getting into organic grain supply. Johansen notes that the non-molecular plant breeding supply is growing smaller with each growing season. This means the prices are going up. Who should...Posted by Waldemar at 12:50 PM
March 20, 2008
Smokeless tobacco- the recent developments
Check out the Eudoxa BBS for the latest news and discussions about harm reduction. Read more about the change of commissioner of health in Europe from Kyprianou to Vassilou, and what it may mean for health policy and harm reduction....Posted by Waldemar at 06:30 PM
March 14, 2008
Is the information about your health in safe hands?
In his The Pulse article of March 13th, The Big Blue Journal Anders Sandberg explains how IBM's innovative virtual health care island in Second Life hightlights a vital issue in e-health: security. Control of the underlying hardware or software at...Posted by Waldemar at 09:35 AM
March 12, 2008
Thailand continues the junta's policy
Lene Johansen notes in Thailand’s Patented Bulls#!t Kills People that the change from a military government to a civilan government has not lead to a change. The Thai Minister of Health is proposing the government to "ignore" four cancer medicine...Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
March 11, 2008
Morphological freedom in Second Life
On Sunday March 9th Anders Sandberg and Natasha Vita More debated Morphological Freedom at Extropia Core in Second Life. Do individual humans have a natural right to Morphological Freedom - the right to seek augmentation and enhancement - and the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:40 AM
March 10, 2008
Prozac just placebo?
In his The Pulse article of March 6th Knowing the Price Tag Makes You Healthier Anders Sandberg examines the increasing effects of placebo. The recent media stories that the new generation of antidepressants, may not indicate that they are less...Posted by Waldemar at 07:10 AM
March 07, 2008
The most powerful technology- and its countermeasure
George Dvorsky writes at IEET about Seven ways to control the Galaxy with self-replicating probes. The article concerns self-replicating machines, as described by mathematician John von Neumann. Dvorsky refers to Anders Sandberg's ideas regarding police probes....Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
March 04, 2008
The clock is ticking for e-health
In his The Pulse article of March 3rd, New Records Anders Sandberg explains how Google is now beginning to store medical records. While concerns about privacy and data mining are of course raised, Sandberg compares with the problems that government...Posted by Waldemar at 12:10 PM
February 29, 2008
Policy Scenarios for the Longevity Dividend
Future Current has summed up Anders Sandberg's speech at the event Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science. Policy Scenarios for the Longevity Dividend gives Sandberg's speech on four possible scenarios surrounding the public reaction to the...Posted by Waldemar at 11:10 AM
February 27, 2008
Lene Johansen on USDA beef recall on Fox Business News
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Is cognitive enhancement a human right?
The development of cognitive enhancement has meant the phrase "give your brain a boost" now brings with it a range of connotations which have never been experienced thus far in human history. The convergence of nano-, bio- and information technology...Posted by Waldemar at 07:30 AM
February 26, 2008
The 2008 International Property Rights Index (IPRI)
The 2008 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the first international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being. In order to incorporate and grasp the important aspects related...Posted by Waldemar at 03:45 PM
February 25, 2008
Discussion in Second Life between Anders Sandberg and Natasha Vita-More
Do individual humans have a natural right to Morphological Freedom - the right to seek augmentation and enhancement - and the right not to be coerced to augment and enhance? The discussion will be held on Sunday March 9th at...Posted by Waldemar at 07:00 AM
February 22, 2008
Lene Johansen: where's the beef?
Lene Johansen makes two interviews for American radio regarding the USDA beef recall and the role of the Humane Society. Listen to interviews and read more about it on Lene's website....Posted by Waldemar at 05:17 PM
February 21, 2008
The Avandia breach of confidentiality
In his The Pulse article of February 20th, Temporary confusion or the sociology of science? Anders Sandberg discusses the recent research scandal, as a researcher reviewing a paper with damaging findings about the drug Avandia broke confidentiality and leaked it...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 AM
February 19, 2008
Feeding cows popcorn and candy bars
Lene Johansen writes on why meat is getting ever more expensive. Part of the problem is that we are feeding our cattle popcorn and candy bars because of distorting subsidies....Posted by Waldemar at 06:55 PM
February 14, 2008
A testament to intellectual integrity
In his The Pulse article of February 14th, Changing Hearts and Minds Anders Sandberg writes about the debate over the cost of recently developed cancer drugs (such as Herceptin). When these drugs were introduced they were heavily criticised. These opinions...Posted by Waldemar at 06:10 PM
February 07, 2008
Nanotechnology in progress
On February 8 Waldemar Ingdahl will comment on recent developments and potential for industrial growth in the nano dimension at a seminar organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Status and prospects for Swedish nanotechnology and science...Posted by Waldemar at 08:35 AM
February 05, 2008
Same- sex reproduction
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article Meet Mom, Mom and Mom: is there anything wrong with same-sex genetic parents? Sandberg writes about a recent scientific breakthrough that could make it possible for two women to be the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:25 AM
February 01, 2008
Smarter pupils through pills
Anders Sandberg is interviewed by Madeleine Brettingham in the article If a pill could make your pupils brainier would you let them take it? in the Times Educational Supplement of February 1st....Posted by Waldemar at 04:25 PM
January 31, 2008
Is climate change a matter for doctors?
In his The Pulse article of January 31st, Medical Climate Evangelism and Evidence Based Medicine Anders Sandberg writes about climate change and the medical profession. The public health aspects of climate change are among the most uncertain. While climate models...Posted by Waldemar at 07:40 PM
January 25, 2008
Trade showdown on GMO between the US and the EU
Lene Johansen notes that GMO, cloned meat and environmental issues are increasingly being used in order to erect barriers to trade, while arguing that the French rejection of GMO is based on something else than science....Posted by Waldemar at 05:40 PM
January 24, 2008
Tagged identity- privacy or shifting persona?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In the article I'm Not a Number; I'm a Human Being: RFID Tags and Our Personas Sandberg writes about personal integrity. Swedish athletes Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm (currently reigning Olympic champions in the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 AM
January 23, 2008
Is cost efficiency the problem in health care?
In his The Pulse article of January 23rd, It isn't easy to be NICE Anders Sandberg writes about the problems facing the institutions that perform cost-effectiveness evaluation of treatments. Criticizing them is immensely popular; there is something to dislike for...Posted by Waldemar at 09:25 AM
January 21, 2008
Send in the clones!
Waldemar Ingdahl writes in The Local of January 21st in Send in the clones about how the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will declare meat and milk from cloned animals equally safe to consume as from those that are...Posted by Waldemar at 08:00 PM
January 20, 2008
Sandberg vs. de Grey at the Dana Centre
On Tuesday January 22nd Anders Sandberg will debate with Aubrey de Grey at the Dana Centre of The Science Museum of London. Please consult the Dana Centre's webpage for further details....Posted by Waldemar at 04:54 PM
January 17, 2008
Recycle your heart
In his The Pulse article of January 16th, A Heart as Good as New Anders Sandberg writes about a new twist on organ donation. Maybe in the future only the scaffolding of donated organs will be donated, the cells will...Posted by Waldemar at 08:10 AM
January 16, 2008
Vem styr Internet?
Skriven av Andrew Morriss, professor i juridik vid University of Illinois. Översättning från engelska av Waldemar Ingdahl Vem kontrollerar Internet? Det är frågan som ställs i den tankeväckande, tydliga och engagerande boken Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless...Posted by Waldemar at 07:38 AM
January 15, 2008
Compulsory licenses is the wrong way to go
Waldemar Ingdahl writes on Essential Innovation why compulsory licenses on pharmaceuticals is the wrong way to go. In Green Hypocrisy he also criticizes MEP Carl Schlyter for not making clear the role of the Thai military junta....Posted by Waldemar at 07:30 AM
January 09, 2008
IPCC chairman looses face in Norway
Lene Johansen notes how IPCC chairman Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was put to task at a recent debate at the University of Stavanger in Norway by the blogger and author Onar Åm....Posted by Waldemar at 05:20 PM
December 11, 2007
Lene Johansen's speech available
Now you can download the PDF-file of Lene Johansen's speech from December 6th. Lene Johansen spoke on communicating free market environmentalism to Liberala Gruppen, a liberal cacus formed by the Swedish members of parliament Annie Johansson and Frederick Federley....Posted by Waldemar at 12:50 PM
Is your hard drive loyal?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In his article Who is your hard drive working for? Sandberg writes about the case of Western Digital, a producer of networked hard drives that enable users to access their files across the net....Posted by Waldemar at 10:45 AM
December 09, 2007
The spread of multi- drug resistent bacteria
In his The Pulse article of December 7th, In Praise of Second Best Anders Sandberg writes about the threat of multi-drug resistant bacteria. One of the most serious threats to health care today. New antibiotics are needed, says Sandberg, but...Posted by Waldemar at 02:51 PM
December 03, 2007
When are people competent to refuse treatment?
In his The Pulse article of December 1st, Inability to Want to get Better Anders Sandberg ponders a dilemma: when are people competent to refuse treatment? New research suggests that current standards of competency overlook important complications. This in turn...Posted by Waldemar at 04:00 AM
November 30, 2007
Patent och läkemedelsinnovation
Alexander Sanchez skrev en debattartikel för Enköpings-Posten den 8 november, Patenten viktiga för läkemedelsforskning (ej online). Den handlar om patent och läkemedelsforskning. Sanchez pekar på att det är en illusion att tro att WHO och Förenta Nationerna effektivt skulle kunna...Posted by Waldemar at 02:35 PM
November 29, 2007
Giving your teacher a failing grade
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In his article Honest Opinions or Bullying? Sandberg writes about the website SpickMich.de that allows German pupils to anonymously rate their teachers. Does freedom of speech trump teacher concerns about privacy and mobbing? Does...Posted by Waldemar at 01:45 PM
November 27, 2007
Interview with Michael Siegel
Waldemar Ingdahl interviews Michael Siegel, Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Read the interview at the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS Siegel is co-author of a book, entitled Marketing Public Health: Strategies to Promote...Posted by Waldemar at 12:30 PM
November 23, 2007
Systematic Sloppiness
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics. In his article It is 10 o'clock, do you know what your cells are? he describes the amazingly persistent problem of contaminated cell lines. It has been known for more than 40 years. This...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
November 22, 2007
Interview with Anders Sandberg in The Independent
Anders Sandberg is interviewed by Nick Jackson in The Independent on November 22st. Read Against the grain: 'We'll be able to upload our brains to a computer' how Sandberg predicts that that in the future we will be able to,...Posted by Waldemar at 10:50 AM
What will be the aim of medicine in the 21st century?
What will medicine actually be about in the 21st century? Anders Sandberg shows that it is certainly not a clear issue in his The Pulse article Enhancement Beyond the Afternoon Tea of November 21st. Will medicine be about restoring health...Posted by Waldemar at 09:50 AM
November 19, 2007
Attack of the clones
In his The Pulse article of November 16th, Throwing Out the Baby with the Test-Tube Anders Sandberg writes about a new policy study by the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies regarding human cloning. Sandberg warns of the risks...Posted by Waldemar at 09:08 AM
November 14, 2007
My brother's nanny?
In his The Pulse article of November 13th, Are We Our Brothers' Piercings' Keepers? Anders Sandberg explains how mandatory health insurance systems give an incentive of worrying about our neighbour's health - if he is doing something to risk it,...Posted by Waldemar at 11:35 AM
November 11, 2007
The end of the happy days of smoking cessation
Waldemar Ingdahl reports on the Eudoxa harm reduction BBS from the SRNT conference in Madrid about a speech given by Swedish researcher Karl Olov Fagerström. Read more about it in Past, present and future in smoking- the Swedish example. Fagerström...Posted by Waldemar at 04:30 PM
November 05, 2007
A step in the right direction
In his The Pulse article of November 5th, Magnetic Delay Anders Sandberg writes about the partial victory in the debate over the obviously absurd restrictions on the use of magnetic imaging in the Physical Agents Directive. The restrictions proposed have...Posted by Waldemar at 03:50 PM
November 01, 2007
Swedish cleantech hanging in the balance
Swedish cleantech is hot at the moment, the question is if it will take off or just fizz out. Sweden’s cleantech has some very advanced research going on, with some quite interesting products being developed but it takes a lot...Posted by Waldemar at 01:23 PM
October 31, 2007
Interview with Jonathan Foulds
Jonathan Foulds, professor at the University of Medicine & Dentistry New Jersey, is interviewed by Waldemar Ingdahl on the Eudoxa harm reduction BBS....Posted by Waldemar at 07:48 PM
October 30, 2007
Ingdahl in Madrid- the beginning
Waldemar Ingdahl was invited to attend the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research's conference in Madrid, Spain between October 3-6 and blogged from the event. Starting from the preseminar, Ingdahl describes Mitchell Zeller's speech on the rapid development of new...Posted by Waldemar at 05:14 PM
National Conference on Tobacco or Health
Michael Siegel writes on the Eudoxa harm reduction BBS about the National Conference on Tobacco or Health. Siegel is quite critical of how Pfizer sponsors tobacco control research....Posted by Waldemar at 02:10 PM
October 28, 2007
Waldemar Ingdahl joins Essentialinnovation.org
Waldemar Ingdahl joins the discussion on Essentialinnovation.org, an online forum that will feature commentary and analysis on the importance of continued innovation, and the potentially disastrous consequences a decline in intellectual property rights will have on global public health. The...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
October 25, 2007
The future of European health care
In his The Pulse article of October 25th, Anders Sandberg writes about the European Commission's newly adopted health strategy, Together for Health: A Strategic Approach for the EU 2008-2013. In All Together Now Sandberg writes about the move towards patient-centred...Posted by Waldemar at 02:35 PM
Innovation in Europe
Here are some of the points I gave at my speech at the recent Economic Forum in Krynica. The European Union is now reaching the economic performance level achieved by the US more than 20 years ago. We have the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:20 AM
October 19, 2007
How to preserve your mind
Lisa Zyga writes on Inventorspot of October 17th about the speech held by Anders Sandberg on TransVision 2007. Read in Upload Your Brain and Become Immortal? how Sandberg is working on uploading the contents of human brains onto a computer....Posted by Waldemar at 12:38 PM
October 17, 2007
Pratical issues of longevity
In his The Pulse article of October 17th, Anders Sandberg quotes the Greek poet Sappho If life be ill, why do the gods still live? Sandberg argues that as patient autonomy increases, the debate over the right to end life...Posted by Waldemar at 03:00 PM
October 16, 2007
Longevity interview in India
Danielle Egan's text on Anders Sandberg's speech at TransVision 2007 has appeared in The International Reporter- New Delhi,India of October 15th....Posted by Waldemar at 12:05 PM
October 15, 2007
Eudoxa on Facebook
The Eudoxa think tank has started its own group on Facebook. Waldemar Ingdahl is the administrator. Join the group in order to get the latest news about our activities, invitations to events, read excerpts of upcoming publications, get extra materials...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 PM
October 12, 2007
The fall of the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 12th Lene Johansen commented on The Cooler Heads Coalition's website in The Fall of the Nobel Prize on the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to give the prize to Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on...Posted by Waldemar at 08:42 PM
New Scientist: Death Special with Sandberg
In the New Scientist October 13th, issue 2625, Danielle Egan writes about The plan for eternal life (subscription required). Egan reports about the speech given by Anders Sandberg at TransVision 2007 about immortality through uploading the human mind into a...Posted by Waldemar at 10:40 AM
October 11, 2007
What Microsoft and Google have in store for e-health
In his The Pulse article Where do you want your medical data to go today? of October 11th, Anders Sandberg asks if Microsoft or Google will be the repositories of our electronic health records? While progress towards European e-health standards...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 AM
October 08, 2007
Evolutionary medicine
On September 8th, Anders Sandberg spoke at the SENS conference in Cambridge organized by Aubrey de Grey. Sandberg's speech When Nature isn't wise: evolutionary medicine and human enhancement regarded the new topic of evolutionary medicine. Sandberg argues, that with the...Posted by Waldemar at 02:40 PM
October 07, 2007
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back
In his The Pulse article Satisfaction Guaranteed of October 5th, Anders Sandberg writes about refunding money for non-efficacious cures. Given the placebo effect of treatments this is probably always going to be good for business. Andra bloggar om: forskning, samhälle,...Posted by Waldemar at 01:40 PM
October 05, 2007
Smokeless tobacco in New Zealand
There has recently been talk about smokeless tobacco, snus and harm reduction in New Zealand, one of the countries banning snus. Waldemar Ingdahl interviews Dr. Murray Laugesen on the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS in order to learn more of the...Posted by Waldemar at 02:23 PM
Sugar pills against smoking
In his The Pulse article Personalized Sugar Pills of September 27th, Anders Sandberg discusses smoking cessation and the drug Brupropion Andra bloggar om: forskning, samhälle, medicin, läkemedel, risker, politik, vården, sjukvård...Posted by Waldemar at 10:04 AM
Lene Johansen appointed Warren T. Brookes Fellow
It is with great pleasure we at the Eudoxa think tank note that Lene Johansen, director of US operations, has been named the 2007-2008 Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C....Posted by Waldemar at 09:47 AM
October 04, 2007
New webserver
Due to an unexpected server error Eudoxa has had to swap its website over to a new server. Due to that we have not been able to update the site these last few days. We will update the site with...Posted by Eudoxa at 09:48 PM
September 20, 2007
Nasty NICE
In his The Pulse article Nasty Debate about NICE Guidelines of September 20th, Anders Sandberg writes about the problem of centralised evaluation that is used by cost-cutting agencies. Sandberg explains the issue using the recent argument about the guidelines concerning...Posted by Waldemar at 08:40 AM
September 19, 2007
Biased medical media?
In his The Pulse article What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander of September 14th, Anders Sandberg explores the issue about media bias in reporting about health care and medicine. Andra bloggar om: forskning, samhälle, medicin, läkemedel,...Posted by Waldemar at 09:52 PM
September 13, 2007
Localizing the Lisbon Strategy
By Waldemar Ingdahl The panel on the seminar "Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation Ecosystems" when I spoke at the 17th Economic Forum in Krynica proved to be very interesting. Braden Cox sums it up quite nicely...Posted by Waldemar at 12:53 AM
September 12, 2007
Expensive drug bias
In his The Pulse article The War on Study Bias of September 11th, Anders Sandberg writes about the conflict of interest in government-sponsored studies comparing treatment effectiveness. The government is trying to find medical truth while at the same time...Posted by Waldemar at 09:09 AM
September 10, 2007
Let machines, not people, sort the trash
"Single stream" recycling systems are gaining in popularity. Waldemar Ingdahl explains why in A New Stream of Thought on Recycling, published in The American on September 10th. Single stream recycling means less work for consumers. Rather than laboriously separating all...Posted by Waldemar at 10:50 AM
August 29, 2007
How to Cultivate Innovation Ecosystems
The 17th Economic Forum between September 5- 8 in Krynica, Poland, is one of the most important meetings in Europe to create a conducive atmosphere for development of political and economic cooperation between the European Union countries and their neighbours....Posted by Waldemar at 10:15 AM
August 25, 2007
Why global warming is good for you
Lene Johansen explains why global warming actually may be of benefit to us and has previously corresponded with periods of affluence. Andra bloggar om: klimat, klimathotet, klimatpolitik, miljö...Posted by Waldemar at 01:20 PM
August 23, 2007
Protectionism leads to stagnation in product development
On the Eudoxa Harm reduction BBS, Simon Espersen of the Copenhagen Institute writes about the temptations that some companies may see in close cooperation with national health authorities. One of the attractions of course, is the perspective of keeping away...Posted by Waldemar at 01:45 PM
August 22, 2007
How the media overreport risks
Anders Sandberg writes an article at Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In Media Risk Bias Feedback Sandberg writes about media feedback. When there is a public concern about a possible risk, researchers get funding...Posted by Waldemar at 09:15 AM
August 21, 2007
Funding bias, an unsolvable issue?
Anders Sandberg writes an article at Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In Supping with the Devil Sandberg elaborates on the issue of funding bias. Funding bias occurs when the conclusions of a study get...Posted by Waldemar at 11:09 AM
August 14, 2007
Add rBST for good milk
Lene Johansen writes on aBetterEarth.org of the The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Johansen explains in Why I stopped shopping at Kroger her reason to, as a customer, boycot the stores owned by the Kroger Corporation. Eudoxa...Posted by Waldemar at 08:10 PM
August 07, 2007
Sweden closing its door to Iraqi refugees
Waldemar Ingdahl writes the "View from the ground" section Demonstrations against closing the door to Iraqis in Not another Nordic Malta- yet by Thomas Huddleston in the European magazine Café Babel. In the article Huddleston and Ingdahl write about the...Posted by Waldemar at 06:45 PM
When is it rational to adopt a new technology?
Anders Sandberg, research director of Eudoxa, makes a calculation of when it is rational to adopt a new technology. Is best to be an early adopter or is it a more rational strategy to wait and see? Andra bloggar om:...Posted by Waldemar at 02:08 PM
August 06, 2007
Bad for competition, bad for public health
Patrick Basham writes about the current attempt in the United States' Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco on the Eudoxa harm reduction BBS. Basham argues in his article Put Out This Tobacco Bill that...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 AM
August 04, 2007
More on terror
Norman Siebrasse debates Anders Sandberg's recent article on how biases affect terrorism on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Siebrasse's Self-Interest, Intent & Deceit brings up the topic of evolutionary psychology Andra bloggar om: brottslighet,...Posted by Waldemar at 01:55 PM
August 02, 2007
Summary TransVision 2007
This film on YouTube sums up the events of the conference TransVision 2007 at which Anders Sandberg from Eudoxa held a speech and participated in a discussion on the issue of longevity. Andra bloggar om: chicago, transhumanism, genteknik, samhälle, politik,...Posted by Waldemar at 02:30 PM
Slice up your brain for eternal life
Is it possible to upload a mind into a computer? The question is not quite as far fetched as it might seem. Neural simulations are nothing new. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley (Nobel prize winners in 1963) began working...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
August 01, 2007
Users by choice
On the Eudoxa Harm reduction BBS, Simon Espersen of the Copenhagen Institute writes about The war on substances that are part of somebody’s total quality of life where he discusses the issue of addiction as a choice. Andra bloggar om:...Posted by Waldemar at 10:54 AM
Machiavellian prohibition
On the Eudoxa Harm reduction BBS, Simon Espersen of the Copenhagen Institute writes about Ethics, politics and health where he discusses the use and abuse of altruism in politics - with implications for health and the right to choose. Andra...Posted by Waldemar at 03:23 AM
July 30, 2007
Death and longevity at TransVision 2007
Anders Sandberg of the Eudoxa think tank held a speech at TransVision 2007 in Chicago recently. Sandberg's speech "Paths to life-extension" was based on four different scenarios regarding the scientific advances in biogerontology and the adoption of innovations in society....Posted by Waldemar at 05:10 PM
July 20, 2007
Why terrorism does not work
Anders Sandberg writes a controversial article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In How Biases Save Us From Giving in to Terrorism Sandberg writes that terrorists run into the problem that people assume that...Posted by Waldemar at 11:32 AM
July 19, 2007
Technology policy in America
Are there other think tanks working with the issue of technology policy and the ideas of freedom? In Europe issues about science, technology and the future are often seen as unimportant, and policy work is about reacting to the usual...Posted by Waldemar at 10:30 AM
July 16, 2007
A global summit for humanity
Anders Sandberg, research director at the Eudoxa think tank, has been invited to speak at the TransVision 2007 conference in Chicago, Illinois. Anders Sandberg will debate the future of humanity with Ronald Bailey, science correspondent Reason magazine and internationally acclaimed...Posted by Waldemar at 04:55 PM
July 15, 2007
Quarantine compensation fights pandemias
In his The Pulse article Compensating a Rational Worry of July 12th, Anders Sandberg explains the booming field of epidemiology. Worries about the avian flu are starting to be seen as overblown, while untreatable drug- resistant tubercolosis is starting to...Posted by Waldemar at 02:08 PM
July 13, 2007
Doing business in the virtual worlds
On June 14th, Waldemar Ingdahl from Eudoxa was invited as keynote speaker at the Stockholm School of Economics seminar Second Life- exploring business opportunities in virtual worlds. Waldemar Ingdahl explaining the work of Edward Castronova at the conference Ingdahl's presentation...Posted by Waldemar at 05:00 PM
July 06, 2007
I don't have to listen to you, I'm the boss
Anders Sandberg writes a powerful article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In One Reason Why Power Corrupts Sandberg explores why people that feel to be in a position of power tend to not...Posted by Waldemar at 02:53 PM
July 05, 2007
Biased criminal investigation
Anders Sandberg writes a criminally good article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In The Butler Did It, of Course! Sandberg writes on confirmation bias in police investigations and how false confessions are triggered...Posted by Waldemar at 12:38 PM
July 04, 2007
Carl V. Phillips on harm reduction
Carl V. Phillips is Associate Professor in the University of Alberta Department of Public Health Sciences in Canada. He also helped creating and maintaining the Alberta Smokeless Tobacco Education & Research Group' s (ASTER) website on harm reduction. Waldemar Ingdahl...Posted by Waldemar at 03:50 PM
July 02, 2007
Supersize my bias!
Anders Sandberg writes a lean and mean article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In Biases are Fattening Sandberg writes about unit bias. We have a cognitive tendency to prefer a full unit of...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 AM
June 29, 2007
Mail order gender tests
In his The Pulse article Undermining the Law (or Your Money Back) of June 28th, Anders Sandberg explores how technology is undermining sex selection legislation. Despite the laws in the EU member countries generally being adverse to embryonic sex selection,...Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
June 28, 2007
Public Schools Lose Educational Focus
Lene Johansen writes on iLiberty.org of the The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. She writes in St. Louis Public Schools Lose Educational Focus on the reality of school children graduating after 12 years of school without being...Posted by Waldemar at 08:05 PM
June 26, 2007
What is the Eudoxa think tank about?
On May 29th Eudoxa held a seminar in order to introduce prospective donors and supporters to the think tank's activities. Director Waldemar Ingdahl explained how Eudoxa came into existence. Eudoxa started as an answer to the big changes in policy....Posted by Waldemar at 07:50 PM
June 25, 2007
Harm reduction with Brad Rodu
Brad Rodu is Professor of Medicine and Endowed Chair, Tobacco Harm Reduction Research at the School of Medicine, University of Louisville. He is also the author of the book For smokers only: How Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life. Recently...Posted by Waldemar at 08:52 AM
June 20, 2007
The body as the state's "strategic asset"
In his The Pulse article Paranoia... or Profit? of June 20th, Anders Sandberg writes about Russia's recent ban on exporting human biological materials. While the Russian example might be an extreme the trade in genetic and biological materials is quickly...Posted by Waldemar at 11:05 AM
June 18, 2007
Nanomachines, politics and peace in Palestine
Anders Sandberg writes a discomforting article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. In Tell Me Your Politics and I Can Tell You What You Think About Nanotechnology Sandberg notes that people do not decide...Posted by Waldemar at 12:55 PM
Using DDT to fight cancer
Lene Johansen writes on aBetterEarth.org of the The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Johansen discusses in Use DDT to fight cancer? the recent discovery that a protein produced by the malaria parasite can trigger Burkitt's lymphoma, a...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 AM
June 14, 2007
Will genetic information tilt the insurance market?
In his The Pulse article The DVDs That Threaten Insurance of June 13th, Anders Sandberg writes about genetic testing and whether results should be disclosed to insurance companies, or if they even have the right to demand testing. At present...Posted by Waldemar at 08:00 AM
June 07, 2007
Transparency builds trust
In his The Pulse article From Serial Murder to Trust and Transparency of June 6th, Anders Sandberg writes about the interesting developments that followed in the NHS after the serial murderer Harold Shipman. Harold Shipman was a British general practitioner...Posted by Waldemar at 08:36 AM
June 02, 2007
Harm reduction with David Sweanor
David Sweanor is adjunct professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and was between 1983 and 2004 counsel to the Non-Smokers' Rights Association (NSRA) of Canada. He was also one of the speakers at the 18th...Posted by Waldemar at 02:10 PM
May 31, 2007
Mashed up medicine
In his The Pulse article Do the Medical Mash of May 30th, Anders Sandberg explains how Web 2.0 is affecting medicine. The main idea of Web 2.0 is taking data from different sites and presenting them together- displaying news stories...Posted by Waldemar at 09:25 AM
May 30, 2007
Achieving cognitive enhancement
On May 24th the Eudoxa think tank's third seminar in Second Life was held at Uvvy Island. Director Waldemar Ingdahl opening the seminar. More than 30 avatars were present Cognition seems to become one of the most fertile areas for...Posted by Waldemar at 12:27 PM
How to reward research
Lene Johansen writes in the Columbia Business Times about Rewarding Research. Johansen looks at how the University of Missouri turn research advances into marketable products and jobs. MU’s Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory (RADIL), a company that mixes private enterprise with...Posted by Waldemar at 10:48 AM
May 29, 2007
Interview with Bill McKibben
Designer babies... immortality... cloning... all science fiction concepts which are seeping into the political discourse. The American environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of Enough: Staying Human In An Engineered Age, visited Missouri University to talk about his book. Lene Johansen made...Posted by Waldemar at 09:53 AM
May 28, 2007
Capitalism and its distilled form in Second Life
On Tuesday June 14th the Stockholm School of Economics will organize the conference Second Life- exploring business opportunities in virtual worlds regarding the economic and social changes created by the virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Among the speakers is...Posted by Waldemar at 12:43 PM
May 26, 2007
Harm reduction conference: roadmap to legalisation
The impressions of Waldemar Ingdahl of the 18th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Warsaw can be found on the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS Regulatory frameworks: alcohol, tobacco & illicit drugs David Sweanor on applying harm...Posted by Waldemar at 03:40 PM
May 24, 2007
Harm reduction conference: smokeless tobacco
The impressions of Waldemar Ingdahl of the second day at the 18th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Warsaw can be found on the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS Harm reduction and ethics The role of nicotine...Posted by Waldemar at 11:20 AM
May 23, 2007
How to avoid a wrecked reform
In his The Pulse article Study for nothing of May 23rd, Anders Sandberg writes about the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), a singularly disastrous attempt to reform the medical education of junior doctors who are seeking training in a speciality. The...Posted by Waldemar at 09:09 PM
May 16, 2007
Bet your life on it
In his The Pulse article The Uncertainty of Death and Taxes of May 16th, Anders Sandberg writes about the development of new financial instruments to handle the risks of drastically increased lifespans. Mortality bonds, essentially bets on whether the death...Posted by Waldemar at 01:55 PM
Uvvy Island seminar moved to May 24th
Unfortunately the seminar on Uvvy island in Second Life with Anders Sandberg commenting on converging cognitive enhancements has to be moved to May 23rd to Thursday May 24th at 19h00 Central European Time (13h00 EST, 10h00 PST). The reason for...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 AM
May 14, 2007
Harm reduction conference: the opening
The impressions of Waldemar Ingdahl of the first day at the 18th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Warsaw can be found on the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS Official opening of the conference Opening plenary Andra...Posted by Waldemar at 09:42 PM
May 13, 2007
One Big Thing
The Eudoxa breakfast lecture of Jeffrey A. Serfass, president of the National Hydrogen Association, on May 22nd at Wennergren Center in Stockholm is mentioned in the US Embassy's renewable energy newsletter One Big Thing for May. In order to attend...Posted by Waldemar at 11:20 AM
May 11, 2007
Eudoxa at the International Harm Reduction Conference
Waldemar Ingdahl from the Eudoxa think tank will attend the International Harm Reduction Conference 2007 in Warsaw, Poland, between the 13-17 May. Ingdahl will be blogging about his impressions and analysis of the conference at the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS,...Posted by Waldemar at 12:45 PM
May 10, 2007
What is the survival rate at this hospital?
In his The Pulse article Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Patients of May 10th, Anders Sandberg enquires about a sensitive issue. Should the survival rates of individual surgeons and hospitals be published for all patients to...Posted by Waldemar at 03:55 PM
Presentation in Second Life on converging cognitive enhancements
Eudoxa will hold a seminar at Uvvy Island in the virtual world of Second Life on Wednesday May 23rd at 19h00 Central European Time (13h00 EST, 10h00 PST) Dr. Anders Sandberg, research director at Eudoxa and research assistant at the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:40 AM
May 07, 2007
Föreläsning om nya energikällor
Tisdagen den 22 maj inbjuder tankesmedjan Eudoxa till en föreläsning med Jeffrey A. Serfass, ordförande för USA:s National Hydrogen Association på Wennergren Center, sal Allvar Gullstrand på Sveavägen 166 i Stockholm. Jeffrey A. Serfass var en av grundarna till The...Posted by Waldemar at 05:10 PM
May 06, 2007
Swedish excise tax hike did not diminish snus use
Waldemar Ingdahl writes on the Eudoxa Harm Reduction BBS on the first survey done on the effects of the Swedish government's 100 per cent raise in excise taxation of the smokeless tobacco known as snus. Pingat på Intressant.se Andra bloggar...Posted by Waldemar at 02:18 AM
May 03, 2007
Biased happiness
In his The Pulse article Happy to be biased? of May 2nd, Anders Sandberg writes about mood enhancement therapies. Paradoxically, we have more knowledge and tools at our disposal to affect the mind than ever before, but we are less...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 AM
April 26, 2007
Pretending the provision of universal health care
In his The Pulse article A Duty to Hypocrisy? of April 25th, Anders Sandberg asks if our doctors really do inform us about all the medical treatments available to us? The background to Sandberg's story is a recent debate in...Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
April 25, 2007
Workplace prohibition of smokeless tobacco
Waldemar Ingdahl writes about the recent decision of the municipality of Hudiksvall in Sweden to institute a ban on all its workplaces against tobacco in all its forms, including the smokeless tobacco know as snus. In Banning smokeless tobacco- one...Posted by Waldemar at 12:50 AM
April 19, 2007
Europe's need for a bright head and a long tail
Waldemar Ingdahl, director of Eudoxa and Henrik Ottosson, Associate Professor at Uppsala University write the article Unleashing bright heads on fifty-year-old shoulders (subscription required) in the European Voice issue 15, April 19th....Posted by Waldemar at 05:20 PM
April 18, 2007
No cure for cancer
In his The Pulse article Genes (and Patients) Turning Against the Body of April 18th, Anders Sandberg discusses the findings of Jarle Breivik at the University of Oslo that there is no cure for cancer. This "evolutionary view" suggests that...Posted by Waldemar at 05:00 PM
April 14, 2007
Eudoxa quoted on single payer medicine
Matt Hisrich, policy analyst at the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions quoted Waldemar Ingdahl's article His Hip, Hooray!. Hisrich used Ingdahl's description of Sweden in order to drive home the point that Single-payer is bad medicine for Ohio. Andra...Posted by Waldemar at 06:35 PM
Waldemar Ingdahl quoted on chemical hysteria
In his The Freeman (Vol. 53, No. 7) article, Chemical Hysteria and Environmental Politics, Doug Bandow quotes Waldemar Ingdahl's article To fear and to fund. Andra bloggar om: miljö, kemikalier, politik, forskning, vetenskap...Posted by Waldemar at 09:25 AM
April 13, 2007
Why medicine is so backwards
In his The Pulse article Supply side medicine of April 12th, Anders Sandberg reveals the perverse incentives in today's health care systems. Diffusion of technologies such as telephones, email and electronic records have been extremely slow in medicine compared to...Posted by Waldemar at 06:30 PM
April 09, 2007
Unlocking Ideas: Essays from the Amigo Society
The Amigo Society conferences, held in Brussels, were set up in 2004 to bring together public policy experts, media representatives and members of civil society to debate these and other issues of importance to an enlarged Europe. Taking concrete examples...Posted by Waldemar at 01:40 PM
April 04, 2007
The smart medical phone
In his The Pulse article Ericsson, Nokia and Apple Patient Records of April 4th, Anders Sandberg talks about how patient records now can be uploaded to the cell phone or the medical iPod. What will the effects of the dentralization...Posted by Waldemar at 02:45 PM
April 02, 2007
Sweden's new political situation
Waldemar Ingdahl writes in the Foundation for Economic Education's magazine The Freeman March, Vol. 57 No. 2 the article The New Sweden. The Freeman article can be downloaded as a PDF-file here >>> In the article Ingdahl puts into question...Posted by Waldemar at 11:11 AM
March 31, 2007
Cognitive enhancement conference
On March 27-28th a Workshop on cognition and physical enhancement was arranged in Stockholm by the Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University and by the Stockholm Bioethics Centre, Stockholm University. The workshop described existing and future enhancement technologies. Recent developments...Posted by Waldemar at 12:30 PM
March 30, 2007
What Sweden really could learn from America
Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article Sweden can learn from the US on climate in The Local of March 30th. Former vice president Al Gore's visit to Stockholm unfortunately overshadows a conference where the United States' climate policy was presented. Ingdahl...Posted by Waldemar at 04:27 PM
March 24, 2007
European internet governance
The article www.internet.eu, written by Waldemar Ingdahl was published in the Open Republic Magazine published by the Open Republic Institute of Ireland. In the article Ingdahl makes a critique of the internet governance policies of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)...Posted by Waldemar at 10:10 AM
March 22, 2007
No media wasteland
Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article Real Virtuality in The American of March 22nd. Ingdahl concludes that despite the early hype about virtual reality worlds such as Second Life cannot obscure the fact that politics, business, and culture are rapidly developing...Posted by Waldemar at 09:47 AM
Memory bias
In his The Pulse article Down the memory hole of March 21st, Anders Sandberg writes on how memories can be selectively erased. The research benefits victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or with phobias, but Sandberg also describes the broader implications....Posted by Waldemar at 08:15 AM
March 19, 2007
Properties of Property Rights
Written by Anders Sandberg, the Eudoxa think tank Recently the first International Property Rights Index comparative study arrived of which the Eudoxa think tank is a partner organization. It is an index that measures how well physical and intellectual property...Posted by Waldemar at 04:35 AM
March 16, 2007
Taxing the virtual
Written by Alexander N. Kanaev, author of Reality of virtual life- The first generation. With the population of massive multiplayer online games MMOG reaching almost fifteen million inhabitants, it is becoming rather problematic to continue treating them as mere games....Posted by Waldemar at 07:00 PM
March 15, 2007
Does Iran have the most free market in the world?
In his The Pulse article To Bridgetown via Teheran of March 14th, Anders Sandberg tells the story of cricket fan Tarun Sharma who wanted to sell his kidney in order to make the trip to the West Indies to see...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
March 13, 2007
Lene Johansen at the Symposium on Tobacco Science and Health
Between March 6-8 Lene Johansen, Director of Eudoxa US Operations, attended the Symposium on Tobacco Science and Health organized in Louisville, KY by the Institute for Science and Health. Johansen gives her comments about the Symposium on the Eudoxa Harm...Posted by Waldemar at 03:00 PM
March 12, 2007
IPRI in Variety
The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI), of which the Eudoxa think tank is a partner organization, was featured in Variety on March 7th with William Triplett's article Study offers rights news- findings show property right equal prosperity. Andra bloggar...Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
March 11, 2007
IPRI in the Polish Business News Magazine
The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI), of which the Eudoxa think tank is a partner organization, was featured in The Polish Business News Magazine with the article Property rights index released of March 7th. Andra bloggar om: äganderätt, samhälle,...Posted by Waldemar at 05:40 PM
March 08, 2007
Ban exchange
In his The Pulse article Trans-Atlantic of March 7th, Anders Sandberg tells about a recent meeting between EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. The two commissioners were discussing the exchange of bans regarding...Posted by Waldemar at 12:10 PM
March 06, 2007
The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI)
The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the first international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being. In order to incorporate and grasp the important aspects related...Posted by Waldemar at 07:06 PM
March 05, 2007
Denying Denial
Written by Anders Sandberg That the New York City Council, on the initiative of Leroy Comrie, tries to ban the use of a word considered defamatory to African- Americans is part of a world wide trend. At present, Germany is...Posted by Waldemar at 09:40 AM
March 04, 2007
Presentation of Uvvy island events
Uvvy Island in Second Life has made a YouTube presentation of some of the highlights of 2006. Among the events you can see the Eudoxa seminar presenting Anders Sandberg's report Keep on raging against ageing. Andra bloggar om: Second Life,...Posted by Waldemar at 05:10 PM
March 03, 2007
Introducing the intermediate drug prescription
In his The Pulse article Opening a Side(nafil) Gate of March 2nd, Anders Sandberg discusses how the drug store Boots has begun a trial to sell Sidenafil (also known as Viagra). The interesting part, writes Sandberg, is that it is...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 AM
February 28, 2007
Eudoxa article wins Swedish newspaper silver medal
The Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has been awarded a silver medal in the cathegory "informative graphics" by the Society for Newspaper Design. The award was given for the article Sanningen om politiken avslöjas written by the Eudoxa think tank's...Posted by Waldemar at 03:55 PM
Making dreams come true
Written by Alexander N. Kanaev, author of Reality of virtual life- The first generation. To think about it, virtual reality has always been with us. From the first fairytales to any art form, humankind has always been dreaming of a...Posted by Waldemar at 10:12 AM
February 23, 2007
Anders Sandberg on NBC News
Anders Sandberg was interviewed by NBC News. The program aired February 21st was about robotics and future developments for Artificial Intelligence. To see the interview enter MSNBC's science section and click on the free video featured on the left called...Posted by Waldemar at 01:25 PM
February 21, 2007
The rise of the Nintendo surgeons
In his The Pulse article Nintendo Surgery of February 21st, Anders Sandberg explains how the surgeon's work is changing rapidly after the introduction of laparoscopic surgery (using a video feed from flexible surgical tools inserted into the body). Will the...Posted by Waldemar at 03:35 PM
February 19, 2007
War on snus
Waldemar Ingdahl discusses some of the recent developments in Finland where the EU ban on snus sales is seeing its first prosecutions. What will happen with the smuggling of smokeless tobacco and the brisk Internet trade betweenn Sweden and Finland?...Posted by Waldemar at 10:53 PM
February 15, 2007
The EU and Rifkin's dangerous energy ideas
Waldemar Ingdahl, director of Eudoxa and Nicklas Lundblad, Chief of Staff of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce write the article The EU and Rifkin's dangerous energy ideas (subscription required) in the European Voice, issue 6, February 15th....Posted by Waldemar at 04:05 PM
February 14, 2007
Funding bias in clinical trials
In his The Pulse article Funding bias – terrible danger or just sad fact of life? of February 14th, Anders Sandberg writes about the interaction between science and profit in the area of pharmaceutics. Sandberg notes the growing debate on...Posted by Waldemar at 09:25 PM
February 08, 2007
Sanguine competition
In his The Pulse article Cutting the Cord for a New Blood Bank of February 7th, Anders Sandberg tells us about how Richard Branson's Virgin Health Bank enters in competition with the UK National Blood Service. This is particularly important...Posted by Waldemar at 04:58 AM
February 07, 2007
Seminar on the virtual worlds
On February 1st the Eudoxa policy study Reality of virtual life- The first generation was presented at a seminar held at Wennergren Center in Stockholm. The author of the report, Alexander Kanaev, discussing with Henrik Hansson of Stockholm University Dr....Posted by Waldemar at 09:45 AM
February 05, 2007
Please Don't Poop in My Salad!
Please Don't Poop in My Salad and Other Essays Opposing the War Against Smoking is a book that collects the essays of the Heartland Institute's President Joseph L. Bast during the past several years concerning the taxes and regulations imposed...Posted by Waldemar at 12:33 PM
February 01, 2007
Eudoxa Policy Study #7: Reality of virtual life- The first generation
The Eudoxa Policy Study Reality of virtual life- the first generation written by Alexander N. Kanaev, explains the increased social, economical, cultural and political significance of virtual worlds. The policy study discusses the social implications of massive multi-player online games...Posted by Waldemar at 09:28 PM
January 31, 2007
Car sales dropping in the US
Lene Johansen and David Reed write about a turbulent year in the American car industry with a shuffling of dealerships, a big drop in overall sales and major changes in buying preferences. Read the article Local car sales drop again...Posted by Waldemar at 11:10 PM
Tackling counterfeit drugs
In his The Pulse article Zapping the Fly in the Ointment of January 31st, Anders Sandberg tackles the problem of counterfeit drugs. Estimates suggest that between 10-50% of drugs worldwide are fake. Can counterfeinting be reduced by regulations? Is technology...Posted by Waldemar at 07:15 PM
January 29, 2007
Snus use skyrockets in Norway
Waldemar Ingdahl has written an article on The Eudoxa harm reduction Bulletin Board about the recent explosion of snus use in Norway. Read more about it in the article Snus use skyrockets in Norway. Andra bloggar om: snus, samhälle, hälsa,...Posted by Waldemar at 02:34 PM
January 24, 2007
Achieving breakthroughs in medicine
In his The Pulse article The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order of January 24th, Anders Sandberg argues that the current tendency to aim at streamlined and standardized health care for egalitarian and cost-cutting reasons limits the...Posted by Waldemar at 06:05 PM
January 19, 2007
Islamic health care
In his The Pulse article Identity Medicine of January 19th, Anders Sandberg writes about professor Aziz Sheikh's argument for more accommodations for islamic religious needs such as circumcision, same-sex doctors and the avoidance of porcine and alcohol-derived drugs. Sandberg argues...Posted by Waldemar at 01:00 PM
January 17, 2007
Ingdahl quoted on nanotechnology
Jacob Arfwedson quoted Eudoxa's Waldemar Ingdahl regarding the regulation of nanotechnology in Europe in his The Pulse article Growth limits, anyone? of January 12th. To clarify Mr. Arfwedson's quote he is referring to an article written by Waldemar Ingdahl in...Posted by Waldemar at 12:54 PM
January 16, 2007
Eudoxa publishes report on the virtual worlds
The Eudoxa think tank is proud to present the report Reality of virtual life- the first generation written by Dr. Alexander Kanaev and to arrange a seminar presenting the report on February 1st Dr. Kanaev has previously worked for the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:30 AM
January 10, 2007
Unexpected future developments in health care
In his The Pulse article Happy Danes and the Future of Medicine of January 10th, Anders Sandberg reads the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal. Together with some interesting new trends and discoveries in medicine he finds out that...Posted by Waldemar at 11:00 AM
January 07, 2007
Getting both privacy and functionality right
Anders Sandberg writes on the topic of RFID and identity technology. If that if the price of privacy is lack of functionality we will likely end up ditching it for the cool and useful new functions. But Sandberg describes how...Posted by Waldemar at 01:25 PM
December 30, 2006
Happiness and old age
Anders Sandberg makes a comment about happiness and old age, comparing national statistics, in relation to his report Keep on raging against ageing. Should we expect old age to bring on ennui and unhappiness? Is longevity really leading to boredom...Posted by Waldemar at 02:00 PM
December 22, 2006
Warning signs for tomorrow
Eudoxa's Anders Sandberg has written the article Warning signs for tomorrow for the Lifeboat Foundation. In the article Sandberg examines how you could visualize future hazardous materials, or processes that are not seen by the naked eye. Giving users and...Posted by Waldemar at 04:50 PM
Keep on raging against ageing
Anders Sandberg has written the report Keep on raging against ageing (downloadable as a PDF-file). In the report he discusses the dream of eternal youth and how it is increasingly becoming medical and demographic reality. We live in a rapidly...Posted by Waldemar at 10:25 AM
December 21, 2006
Empowering patients
In his The Pulse article Laughter (and empowerment) as the best medicine of December 21st, Anders Sandberg explains why empowering patients is not just economically rational and moral; it may have a subtle but pervasive effect of reducing learned helplessness...Posted by Waldemar at 11:03 AM
December 20, 2006
Seminar on longevity at Uvvy Island
On December 18th Anders Sandberg from the Eudoxa public policy think tank spoke at the seminar Keep on raging against ageing at Uvvy Island in the virtual world Second Life. The seminar was attended by about 30 avatars. We at...Posted by Waldemar at 04:59 PM
December 16, 2006
Dangerous Directive
In his The Pulse article Bureaucracy kills of December 15th, Anders Sandberg sharpely criticizes the European Union's clinical trial directive (EUCTD) as it has had devastating effects on non-commercial trials. The increased paperwork and documentation is actively putting patients' lives...Posted by Waldemar at 09:09 AM
December 13, 2006
Sandberg quoted on smart drugs
Jacob Arfwedson quoted Anders Sandberg's speech in Brussels at the Centre of the New Europe regarding the new pharmacology in his The Pulse article When the chips are down of December 13th. Andra bloggar om: medicin, framtiden, samhälle, forskning...Posted by Waldemar at 02:45 PM
December 12, 2006
Will the raised excise tax on snus benefit public health?
Waldemar Ingdahl considers the Swedish government's raise of the excise tax on the Swedish moist oral smokeless tobacco known as "snus". Will it benefit public health or could it create unforseen consequences? Read more in his article Sweden giving up...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 PM
December 08, 2006
Eudoxa at the space base
Eudoxa's director Waldemar Ingdahl was invited by the Swedish National Space Board and the European Space Agency to attend the VIP opening ceremony of Rymdbas Stockholm on December 7th, celebrating Sweden's first astronaut Christer Fuglesang. Waldemar Ingdahl together with Jean-François...Posted by Waldemar at 08:40 PM
December 07, 2006
Xenoviral threats
In his The Pulse article Xenoviral Marketing of December 7th, Anders Sandberg explains what might act as a major stumbling block for xenotransplants: transmission of animal diseases to humans. Sandberg also examines Global Enforcement Organisation for Xenobiology (GEOX) proposed by...Posted by Waldemar at 04:16 PM
December 06, 2006
Space: the free market frontier
Waldemar Ingdahl writes for Stockholm's English language newspaper The Local about space exploration and the free market. In the article Space: the free market's final frontier on December 6th, Ingdahl points out that Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang's voyage does not...Posted by Waldemar at 09:15 PM
December 05, 2006
Seminar about life span extention
The Eudoxa think tank of Stockholm publishes a report on lifetime expansion and holds a public policy institute seminar in the virtual world Second Life Dr. Anders Sandberg, research director at Eudoxa has written a study on how modern medicine...Posted by Waldemar at 09:25 AM
November 30, 2006
Transparency is the best policy
In his The Pulse article Opaque Evidence of November 29th, Anders Sandberg writes about the turbulent times for the institutes for health care efficiency. Will the problems for the German IQWiG and British NICE lead to an increased transparency of...Posted by Waldemar at 08:40 AM
November 25, 2006
The book that started it all
Waldemar Ingdahl writes a review of the book Snus written by Janne Sundling and published by Arena förlag. The review The book that started it all is posted on the Eudoxa harm reduction bulleting board. Pingat på Intressant.se Andra bloggar...Posted by Waldemar at 04:55 PM
November 23, 2006
Dr. Google makes the correct diagnosis
In his The Pulse article "But of course he has Paget-von Schrötter syndrome!" of November 23rd, Anders Sandberg writes about how two researchers found out that Google as a diagnostics tool is correct in 58 per cent of the cases....Posted by Waldemar at 10:10 AM
November 20, 2006
Transmedicine at the Wellcome Trust
On December 5th, Anders Sandberg will lecture at the Wellcome Trust's seminar Full Life, Long Life in London. In his speech Sandberg will explore what he calls "transmedicine", namely the pressure to achieve better memories, sharper attention, longer lives and...Posted by Waldemar at 07:50 PM
November 16, 2006
The Gentle Tag
Anders Sandberg writes in the magazine RFID Nordic Info 4/2006, the article The Gentle Tag (pages 10-11) where he describes how RFID technology can successfully be put in societal and technological context. Sandberg also clarifies what constitutes a general- purpose...Posted by Waldemar at 05:03 PM
November 15, 2006
Paving the way for biogenerics
In his The Pulse article Pro-Competition Democrats of November 15th, Anders Sandberg points out that the new Democratic majority in the United States Congress might pave the way for the introduction of biogenerics. A similar debate is starting in the...Posted by Waldemar at 04:10 PM
November 11, 2006
What's in a name?
In his The Pulse article Cleaning up Indian Hedgehogs and Dunces of November 9th, Anders Sandberg says that a hint that genetics is becoming applicable is that humourous gene names, like radical fringe, lunatic fringe or Indian hedgehog are currently...Posted by Waldemar at 08:25 AM
November 09, 2006
EU RFID Conference in Brussels
On October 16th the European Commission staged the consultation conference Heading for the Future in Brussels, to which Waldemar Ingdahl and Anders Sandberg of Eudoxa were invited to partecipate in order to give their recommendations for RFID. Some of the...Posted by Waldemar at 04:30 PM
November 07, 2006
Public policy seminar at Uvvy Island
On November 3rd Eudoxa became the first public policy think tank to organize a seminar in a virtual world. The seminar about the New Virtual Frontier in Second Life was attended by about 25 virtual avatars. A motley crew of...Posted by Waldemar at 12:35 PM
November 04, 2006
Conference on tobacco excise taxation in Budapest
On September 29th Waldemar Ingdahl from Eudoxa participated in the Seminar on the Taxation of Tobacco in the European Union. The impression of the conference is that the issue of tobacco excise taxation has become large problem in the EU,...Posted by Waldemar at 04:54 PM
November 01, 2006
Germany punishes the sick
In his The Pulse article You got sick, so we are going to punish you of November 1st, Anders Sandberg writes about the new German health reform package that includes a proposal that cancer patients that have not undergone screenings...Posted by Waldemar at 09:07 PM
October 26, 2006
Defining animal rights extremism as terrorism
In his The Pulse article Can the Open Society Suffer? of October 25th, Anders Sandberg writes about the US Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, that defines animal rights extremism as terrorism. He also discusses if this is the right way forward...Posted by Waldemar at 09:40 AM
Citation by the Health Council of The Netherlands
The Health Council of the Netherlands has published a report on nanotechnology: Health significance of nanotechnologies. The report cites the Eudoxa poster Nanotechnology and Health Policy, written by Anders Sandberg and Waldemar Ingdahl for EuroNanoForum in Trieste 2003, on that...Posted by Waldemar at 12:40 AM
October 25, 2006
Ingdahl citation by the FIDIS Consortium
The FIDIS Consortium is a multidisciplinary and multinational collaboration between European universities and research institutes studying the information society. FIDIS publishes reports and in their report D7.7: RFID, Profiling and AmI, in the chapter The Informal layer of RFID systems–...Posted by Waldemar at 05:10 PM
How Europe should adopt RFID
In the Wall Street Journal Europe of October 25th, Eudoxa's director Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article Who's afraid of RFID? (subscription required) together with MEP Charlotte Cederschiöld and Björn Söderberg, CEO of Kiwok. In the article Ingdahl, Cederschiöld and Söderberg...Posted by Waldemar at 10:15 AM
Seminar about the new virtual frontier
The Eudoxa think tank of Stockholm holds the first public policy institute seminar in the virtual world Second Life The virtual worlds are entering the public’s mind and affecting how business and society are conducted. Eudoxa, a think tank dedicated...Posted by Waldemar at 02:39 AM
October 23, 2006
Waldemar Ingdahl's speech in Prague
Waldemar Ingdahl's speech, held at the Liberání Institut's conference on tobacco excise tax harmonization in Prague, is now available in PDF-format. In Unintended consequences Ingdahl explains some of the economic and social effects of the excise taxes on tobacco and...Posted by Waldemar at 01:24 AM
October 19, 2006
Crossing the European borders for health care
In his The Pulse article Paths are made by walking of October 18th, Anders Sandberg reminds us that despite all the talk about "health tourism" and e-health there is still no treaty in the European Union regulating cross-border health care....Posted by Waldemar at 12:25 AM
October 17, 2006
The world is going virtual
Waldemar Ingdahl writes on LewRockwell.com on October 16th about the virtual worlds, like Project Entropia, World of Warcraft, and Second Life. In his article The New Virtual Frontier he explains how they are rapidly changing society and our perceptions of...Posted by Waldemar at 11:40 PM
October 12, 2006
The use of designer nanomaterials in medicine
In his The Pulse article The Good NHS of October 11th, Anders Sandberg explains how nanomedicine is rapidly progressing. With the introduction of the substance NHS-1 to stop bleeding, nanomaterials have entered practical medicine. Will they end up in a...Posted by Waldemar at 11:15 AM
October 11, 2006
BBC: The neurotechnology frontier
Anders Sandberg from Eudoxa was interviewed by BBC News on the issue of neurobotics and neuroethics on October 11th. Read more in Science has designs on your brain at the BBC site....Posted by Waldemar at 03:45 PM
October 05, 2006
Eudoxa invited to the European Commission's RFID consultation
The Eudoxa think tank's director Waldemar Ingdahl and science director Dr. Anders Sandberg have been invited by the European Commission to attend the consultation conference "Heading for the Future". The conference is organized on the initiative of Viviane Reding, Commissioner...Posted by Waldemar at 06:45 AM
October 04, 2006
A racist "no" to ultrasound sex selection
In his The Pulse article Getting to Know the Little bundle one is Carrying of October 4th, Anders Sandberg writes about the practice of sex selection through ultrasound for infant children. Sandberg asks if maybe the fear of sex selection...Posted by Waldemar at 05:30 PM
October 02, 2006
Seminar in Madrid postponed
The 2nd Conference on European Technological Sovereignty, at which Eudoxa's director Waldemar Ingdahl was to appear as a keynote speaker, has unfortunately been postponed. Eudoxa hopes that a new date for this important conference will be given shortly....Posted by Waldemar at 12:50 PM
September 27, 2006
Deadly tan
In his The Pulse article Tanned, Lean And Cancer Free of September 27th, Anders Sandberg discusses the problem of the increase of skin cancer cases, and how Genistein, a component of soy with anti-cancer and anti-obesity effects, might be a...Posted by Waldemar at 06:10 PM
Ingdahl in Prague
On September 20th, Waldemar Ingdahl spoke in Prague about the economic, social, and security impacts of tobacco excise duty harmonization in the EU. A transcript of Director Ingdahl's speech is now available at Eudoxa's website. The opening remarks were held...Posted by Waldemar at 02:30 PM
September 25, 2006
European Technological Sovereignty
Waldemar Ingdahl, director of Eudoxa, has been invited as a keynote speaker at the 2nd Conference on European Technological Sovereignty (II Congreso de Soberanía Tecnológica de Europa) organised in Madrid between the 3-5 of October. Waldemar Ingdahl will adress the...Posted by Waldemar at 12:30 PM
Eudoxa participated at climate conference
On September 11-12th Waldemar Ingdahl and Alexander Sanchez from Eudoxa attended a climate conference at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The conference was controversial in some ciricles. Most climate scientists support the IPCC's view that CO2 emissions from...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
September 21, 2006
Hunting lead
In his The Pulse article In the Lead of September 20th, Anders Sandberg reports about the recently approved lead poisoning blood test from ESA Biosciences. Given the major societal problem posed by the hidden problem of lead poisoning, could we...Posted by Waldemar at 10:03 AM
September 19, 2006
Seminar on the taxation of tobacco in the European Union
Waldemar Ingdahl, director of Eudoxa, has been invited to attend the Seminar on the Taxation of Tobacco in the European Union organized by the Corvinus University of Budapest and The International Tax and Investment Center in Budapest, Hungary between the...Posted by Waldemar at 01:28 PM
September 16, 2006
Anders Sandberg on harm reduction
Anders Sandberg recounts some of his experiences at the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health held in Washington DC, and examines some of the recent developments regarding harm reduction and tobacco control issues in a three-part report. WCTOH Report,...Posted by Waldemar at 12:22 PM
September 14, 2006
Ingdahl speaks in Prague
Waldemar Ingdahl has been invited as a speaker at the Liberální institut's conference Economic, social, and security impacts of tobacco excise duty harmonization in the EU on the September 20th in Prague, Czech Republic. Waldemar Ingdahl is featured on the...Posted by Waldemar at 08:00 AM
September 13, 2006
Will genetics provide the cure for diabetes?
In his The Pulse article Is Genetic Testing for Diabetes just Sugaring? of September 13th, Anders Sandberg asks what we can expect from genetics in regard to the diabetes epidemia in the world. Is genetic testing the best alternative?...Posted by Waldemar at 05:15 PM
September 10, 2006
Climate conference in Stockholm
Waldemar Ingdahl and Alexander Sanchez from Eudoxa will participate at the conference Global Warming- Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability. The conference will be held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm between September 11-12th...Posted by Waldemar at 11:18 AM
September 07, 2006
An Inevitable Surprise
In his The Pulse article An Inevitable Surprise of September 6th, Anders Sandberg explains why eminently clear and predictable trends in demography, epidemiology and technology so quickly can undermine older plans in health care....Posted by Waldemar at 11:14 AM
September 04, 2006
Big Brother EU vs. The House of Lords
By Waldemar Ingdahl After 911 many governments have started to give their police forces and various their security agencies more powers to track and monitor the citizens’ locations, movement patterns, their communications and interactions. In the US the Patriot Act...Posted by Waldemar at 11:15 AM
August 30, 2006
Mimicking nature
By Waldemar Ingdahl On Thursday the 24th of August I was invited to attended the inauguration for Biomime, the Swedish Center for Biomimetic Fiber Engineering. Biomime is a new cross-disciplinary strategic center of excellence at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute...Posted by Waldemar at 09:30 PM
August 26, 2006
New Scientist interview
Anders Sandberg was interviewed in the New Scientist of August 26th (issue 2566) regarding the ethics of human enhancement. In the article Human enhancement beyond evolution Sandberg considers together with philosopher Nick Bostrom if a comparison with the evolution of...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
August 17, 2006
Seminar with Dr. James Hughes
On August the 16th Eudoxa and the Arena think tank invited Dr. James Hughes to speak at the seminar "Frihet, jämlikhet, teknologi" (Liberty, equality, technology) in Stockholm. The seminar was well attended with guests from the media, academia, and government....Posted by Waldemar at 04:25 PM
August 11, 2006
Fair trade in medical equipment
In his The Pulse article Do you want fair trade scalpels for your surgery? of August 11th, Anders Sandberg writes about the issue of fair trade in medical equipment purchases....Posted by Waldemar at 10:25 AM
Harm reduction and doping in athletics
In his TCS Daily Europe article Genes and Juice of August 11th, Waldemar Ingdahl writes about the anti-doping tests at the European Athletics Championships. How thin is the line between doping, medication and human enhancement today? Could these Championships be...Posted by Waldemar at 08:45 AM
August 09, 2006
A Call to Action for the XVI International AIDS Conference to Eliminate Tariffs on Medicines and Medical Devices
Tariffs on medicines and medical devices represent a barrier to reaching the 2010 target of universal access for treatment of HIV/AIDS. Taxing the sick only hurts the estimated one third of the world’s population living without access to adequate healthcare...Posted by Waldemar at 08:02 AM
August 07, 2006
James Hughes speaks in Stockholm
The Eudoxa think tank will hold a smeinar in collaboration with the social democratic think tank Arena on Wednesday August 16th. Invited speaker is PhD James J. Hughes, author of Citizen Cyborg: why democratic societies must respond to the redesigned...Posted by Waldemar at 05:20 PM
July 28, 2006
Discussing emerging technologies of human enhancement
Anders Sandberg has been invited to speak at the TransVision 2006 conference in Helsinki, Finland. The event between August 17- 19 is held at the University of Helsinki. Anders Sandberg's speech held on August 19th is entitled Cognitive Divide or...Posted by Waldemar at 02:53 PM
July 27, 2006
The big ripoff
The Heritage Foundation presented Timothy P. Carney's book The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money on July 12th in Washington DC. Among those invited to comment was Waldemar Ingdahl from the Eudoxa think tank. You...Posted by Waldemar at 01:54 PM
The first round in the battle over stem cell research
In his The Pulse article Is the Stem Cell Petri Dish Half Full or Half Empty? of July 27th, Anders Sandberg writes about the recent controversy regarding the EU funding for stem cell research. While the first round ended in...Posted by Waldemar at 12:35 PM
July 22, 2006
Answering Cathy Young
By Anders Sandberg Criticism of human enhancement is often based on a bioconservative perspective. Libertarian criticisms such as Cathy Young's in The Boston Globe (Transhumanism: Yearning to transcend biology, July 10th 2006) are much rarer, and welcome. But overenthusiastic promotors...Posted by Waldemar at 06:05 PM
July 20, 2006
The rise of Swedish piracy
Waldemar Ingdahl writes a follow-up to his TCS Daily Europe article Pirates of the European. In the July 20th article Pirates of the European II: The Empire Strikes Back he writes about the recent developments on intellectual property in Sweden,...Posted by Waldemar at 12:10 PM
Harm reduction in tobacco control
In his The Pulse article First, Do Less Harm of July 19th, Anders Sandberg discusses his experiences at the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health held in Washington DC and his impressions of the ongoing debate of harm reduction...Posted by Waldemar at 11:10 AM
July 18, 2006
New and improved harm reduction BBS
The Eudoxa harm reduction BBS, launched in June, now has a new and improved format, with new features. Be sure not to miss editor Dr. Anders Sandberg's articles about World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOC) in Washington DC July...Posted by Waldemar at 02:27 PM
July 17, 2006
How proven life-saving benefits weigh less than unproven risks
In his The Pulse article Magnetic Resonance of July 12th, Anders Sandberg explains how the EU is creating problems for patient requiring MRI scans. This is because Commissioner Vladimir Spidla holds on to the precautionary principle in health care....Posted by Waldemar at 10:05 AM
July 09, 2006
Eudoxa at the Atlas International Thursday
Waldemar Ingdahl, director of Eudoxa, will give a presentation at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation: International Thursday meeting on July 13th in Arlington, VA. The meeting's special focus is on Europe and European affairs. Other confirmed speakers are Vito Tanzi...Posted by Waldemar at 02:30 PM
Eudoxa at the Wednesday meeting
Waldemar Ingdahl will give a short presentation of Eudoxa at the Wednesday Center- Right Coalition meeting in Washington DC on July 12th, hosted by Americans for Tax Reform....Posted by Waldemar at 01:58 PM
The next step in brain evolution
Anders Sandberg is interviewed by Richard Woods in the article The next step in brain evolution in The Sunday Times of July 9th....Posted by Waldemar at 11:38 AM
July 07, 2006
Sweden- an IP friend or foe?
Waldemar Ingdahl was quoted on the issue of intellectual property in Sweden in the article France and Sweden: IP Friends or Foes? by Scott A. LaGanga and Katherine Boyle in the Propery Rights Alliance Trans-Atlantic Policy Series....Posted by Waldemar at 10:44 AM
July 06, 2006
What Bertie Ahern didn't want to hear
In his The Pulse article Lies, Blatant Lies and Statistics of July 6th, Anders Sandberg writes about the impact of the European Health Consumer Index and why the terrified Irish prime minister Taoiseach Bertie Ahern accused it of just being...Posted by Waldemar at 01:00 PM
Statement of Concern for Freedom in Russia
At the European Resource Bank Meeting in Vienna on July 1st, representatives of pro-freedom think-tanks and movements, united by common principles and values, declared their support for the individual rights of the people of Russia to associate without harassment by...Posted by Waldemar at 10:50 AM
July 04, 2006
In Sweden we have already solved this problem
The Swedish social model is still discussed in many European countries as an example for reform. In the essay In Sweden we have already solved this problem, Waldemar Ingdahl puts into question if the image of Sweden given by both...Posted by Waldemar at 10:19 AM
June 29, 2006
The Estonian cyberdemocratic revolution
By Waldemar Ingdahl There is a slowly growing debate about democracy in Europe. Often this debate is initiated by the political entities themselves. The falling figures for voter turnouts at elections appear worrisome; sometimes even there is even difficulty of...Posted by Waldemar at 11:09 AM
The Kill Malaria Mosquitoes Now campaign
Africa Fighting Malaria has started the global campaign Kill Malarial Mosquitoes NOW! The campaign declares that: Developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America face a terrible health and human rights crisis: 500 million of their people get malaria every...Posted by Waldemar at 01:37 AM
June 28, 2006
Improving health care bit by bit
In his The Pulse article Kaizen Healthcare of June 28th, Anders Sandberg explains the success of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100 000 lives campaign. How can rapid response teams radically improve health care on the basis of local fixes?...Posted by Waldemar at 04:13 PM
June 26, 2006
Live long and prosper
Anders Sandberg writes for the Persuader Issue 7, June 2006. Persuader is a magazine published by Citigate Dewe Rogerson. In his article "Staying alive", Sandberg writes about how we are starting to doubt ageing, and instead making gains in longevity....Posted by Waldemar at 10:55 AM
June 21, 2006
Climate imperialism in health care
In his The Pulse article Should doctors treat the Earth's fever? of June 21th, Anders Sandberg discusses the claim that climate change will lead to a rise in epidemics....Posted by Waldemar at 07:24 PM
June 15, 2006
Stop taxing the medicines of the poor!
In his The Pulse article Stop Taxing the Sick of June 14th, Anders Sandberg writes about the high costs of medicines in developing countries. Due to government taxation and duities levied the prices on certain drugs rise far above the...Posted by Waldemar at 11:42 AM
June 14, 2006
The European Resource Bank Meeting
Dr. Anders Sandberg has been invited as a speaker on the topic Innovation and Research and Development in the European Union – Farming is no longer an option at the European Resource Bank Meeting in Vienna, Austria, held between June...Posted by Waldemar at 09:40 AM
June 10, 2006
Pirate party controversy
Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article "Controversies: Pirates in Sweden" in the Stockholm Network's Know IP, volume 2, issue 5 2006....Posted by Waldemar at 04:00 PM
June 07, 2006
Withstanding the trends
In his The Pulse article That Cantankerous Centenarian of June 7th, Anders Sandberg writes about how pharmaceutical fads come and go, meta-analyses are challenged but aspirin remains....Posted by Waldemar at 12:10 PM
June 06, 2006
Bullet-proof monks and Richard Florida- a solution for Europe?
By Alexander Sanchez Anticipation ran high when one of todays most sought after speakers, Richard Florida of Carnegie Mellon, was invited to an event held in Stockholm’s City Hall, were the Nobel Prize dinner is held once a year for...Posted by Waldemar at 12:55 PM
June 05, 2006
The Eudoxa think tank launches Bulletin Board on harm reduction
The Eudoxa think tank proudly launches its latest campaign focused on health care reform through the creation of an electronic Bulletin Board. The Eudoxa Bulletin Board will function as a communications forum for individuals who are involved with or are...Posted by Waldemar at 08:00 AM
May 31, 2006
The right to medically enhance oneself
In his The Pulse article The Right to the highest attainable standard of Physical and Mental Health of May 31st, Anders Sandberg reports back from the Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights conference at Stanford University Law School....Posted by Waldemar at 02:55 PM
Anders Sandberg spoke at Stanford University
Between May 26-28 the conference Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights was held at the Stanford University Law School. Anders Sandberg participated as a speaker in a session on Cognitive Enhancement, Identity and Privacy on Sunday May 28th, presenting a...Posted by Waldemar at 01:48 PM
Send the right message on harm reduction
In his TCS Daily Europe article No Illusions of May 31st, Waldemar Ingdahl critiques the theme for The No Tobacco Day. "Tobacco, Deadly in Any Form or Disguise" sends the wrong message on harm reduction....Posted by Waldemar at 09:50 AM
May 30, 2006
Do not let Europe take the wrong position on global poverty
By Waldemar Ingdahl Tomorrow the European Parliament will debate on the report A6-0179/2006 written by rapporteur Helmuth Markov, in order to take the vote it on Thursday. This little discussed report could be one of the defining moments for the...Posted by Waldemar at 03:52 PM
May 24, 2006
RFID seminar comments
Anders Sandberg comments on the seminar held by Eudoxa on May 23rd regarding RFID in conjunction with the release of the report Sandberg wrote on the topic....Posted by Waldemar at 10:35 PM
The slippery slope argument is invalid
In his The Pulse article Make a Clean Breast of It of May 24th, Anders Sandberg points out that the recent decision of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority of allowing screening of embryos for a wide range of...Posted by Waldemar at 03:10 PM
May 18, 2006
Evaluating fads
In his The Pulse article Evidence Based Health Policy Against Fads of May 18th, Anders Sandberg explains why there is seldom any information on whether new organisational practices work, and when the old fads are discarded in favor of new...Posted by Waldemar at 02:06 PM
May 12, 2006
Seminar in Helsinki postponed
The seminar of the Eudoxa think tank at the Hotel Marski on May 16th, on the issue of harm reduction, snus and the Åland issue has been cancelled due to the forfeit of one of the speakers. It is Eudoxa...Posted by Waldemar at 04:04 AM
May 11, 2006
The false dichotomy of IP
Often the debate about Intellectual Property is pitched as a conflict between big corporations on one hand and consumers/counterculture on the other. The issue has been reenforced by the emergence of a Pirate Party in Sweden. Waldemar Ingdahl and Jonathan...Posted by Waldemar at 11:10 AM
May 10, 2006
Leave the matters of the heart to the expert with the highest survival rate
In his The Pulse article Publish or Perish of May 10th, Anders Sandberg examines how e-health care has changed heart medicine in England, Wales and The Netherlands....Posted by Waldemar at 02:02 PM
Seminar on harm reduction, smokeless tobacco and the Åland issue
The Eudoxa think tank invites you to a seminar and discussion regarding the harm reduction and tobacco issues in Helsinki with regard to the European Commission's decision to bring Finland to the European Court of Justice regarding the ban on...Posted by Waldemar at 01:00 PM
May 08, 2006
The Lifecycle of Memes
Anders Sandberg has, together with Henrik Bjarneskans and Bjarne Grønnevik, written the paper The Lifecycle of Memes that can be found at the Athenaeum Reading Room. Abstract of Bjarneskans, Grønnevik and Sandberg's The Lifecycle of Memes: Memes, self reproducing mental...Posted by Waldemar at 10:57 AM
May 04, 2006
Beating cancer
In his The Pulse article Profiting from the War on Cancer of May 3rd, Anders Sandberg writes that finding a cure for cancer would be worth $100 trillion worldwide. There is thus a huge demand for cancer research, but which...Posted by Waldemar at 09:30 AM
Ingdahl invited to the Italian embassy
Waldemar Ingdahl has been invited by the Italian embassy in Stockholm on May 4th to an exclusive viewing and discussion of the documentary Il mago delle Onde (produced by EUROPROMEX) regarding Guglielmo Marconi's early life and scientific experiments that led...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 AM
May 02, 2006
Leave the roaming to the market
In his TCS Daily Europe article Where the Bureaucrats Roam of May 2nd, Waldemar Ingdahl explains why the European Commission's plan to re-regulate mobile telecommunications will distort the market....Posted by Waldemar at 03:11 AM
May 01, 2006
Fear of a Muslim Sweden?
By Anders Sandberg "Are you having great problems with the Muslim population in Sweden?" the American official at the Heritage Resource Bank conference asked me. When I looked confused he continued explaining that he had heard about the large (and...Posted by Waldemar at 09:19 PM
April 22, 2006
Eudoxa at the Heritage Resource Bank meeting
Eudoxa's Lene Johansen attended The Heritage Foundation’s Annual Resource Bank Meeting in Colorado Springs on April 20-21st. Johansen discussed issues, strategies, and methods for advancing free market, limited government public policies with other think tanks from around the world....Posted by Waldemar at 02:45 PM
Seminar in Brussels
Eudoxa's Waldemar Ingdahl attended by invitation the Centre for the New Europe/Competitive Enterprise Institute seminar in Brussels on The Macro Issues of the Microsoft case on April 20th....Posted by Waldemar at 01:12 PM
April 21, 2006
Replacing alcohol with better drugs
In his The Pulse article Tinkering with the Tipple of April 20th, Anders Sandberg searches for better alternatives to alcohol. While the strategy of harm reduction is gaining support in many other issues, it is seldom discussed when it comes...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 PM
April 13, 2006
Transcipt from pharmacogenomics seminar
On Febraury 22nd Anders Sandberg debated pharmacogenomics with Robby Berloznik at the Amigo Society in Brussels. A transcript of the speeches and the following debate is now available as a PDF-file from the The Stockholm Network....Posted by Waldemar at 06:00 PM
Protest against a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base
The European Commission towards creating a common consolidate corporate tax base in the EU. It is Eudoxa's opinion that it would undermine the euro zone's competitiveness in the global economy, pose enormous tax-compliance costs for all businesses without exception and...Posted by Waldemar at 02:20 PM
April 12, 2006
Simulating the avian flu pandemic
In his The Pulse article Waiting for the Flu Under the Table of April 12th, Anders Sandberg discusses the most eagerly awaited pandemic of all times; the avian flu. One reason for this has been the use of supercomputer simulations...Posted by Waldemar at 02:05 PM
April 11, 2006
Mention in Canada
Paul Belien mentions Waldemar Ingdahl's article on European discontent novels in The Canada Free Press on April 11th....Posted by Waldemar at 06:14 PM
The trend of the populist rebellion novel
A current trend in Europe today is the publication of novels with the similar story of people getting fed up with excessive taxation, malfunctioning public services and bureaucracy and changing the system through populist rebellions against the elite. Waldemar Ingdahl...Posted by Waldemar at 04:00 PM
April 05, 2006
Banning Thimerosal
In his The Pulse article Choosing between Mercury, Autism and... Choice of April 5th, Anders Sandberg discusses the effects of the vaccine preservative Thimerosal, its allegied links to autism and the proposed ban in the United States. Ultimately, says Sandberg,...Posted by Waldemar at 06:06 PM
March 31, 2006
Research needs better ideas than the EIT
In his TCS Daily Europe article Europe's MIT? of March 31st, Waldemar Ingdahl critizes the plans for establishing a new European Institute of Technology. What European research needs now is not new institutions but new priorities, and instead of centralization...Posted by Waldemar at 11:55 AM
March 29, 2006
Cutting the EU's public health and consumer protection strategy
In his The Pulse article Starving Paternalism or Health? of March 29th, Anders Sandberg writes about how the EU recently has decided to cut the public health and consumer protection strategy budget in half. Is it a defeat for public...Posted by Waldemar at 05:26 PM
March 22, 2006
Ageing does not make sense economically
In his The Pulse article The Economic Case against Ageing of March 22nd, Anders Sandberg makes an economic case for longevity research....Posted by Waldemar at 05:37 PM
March 20, 2006
Welfarist riots
Lene Johansen writes about the French student riots and the connections to the European Social Model's welfarism in her article The French Labor Riots on LewRockwell.com, March 20th....Posted by Waldemar at 08:04 AM
March 15, 2006
The Challenges for Life Extension and Enhancement
In his The Pulse article Tomorrow's People Today of March 15th, Anders Sandberg examines the future of human enhancement and life extension through his precence at the James Martin World Forum 2006....Posted by Waldemar at 06:30 PM
March 12, 2006
Harm reduction and risk perception
Eudoxa's Waldemar Ingdahl participated at The Institute for Science and Health's conference Tobacco Harm Reduction and Perception of Risk in Vienna between March 8-10th....Posted by Waldemar at 11:09 AM
March 11, 2006
Speech at the Fundación Vodafone España
On March 9th Anders Sandberg held a speech on ethical visions of life extention technologies at the Fundación Vodafone España in Madrid....Posted by Waldemar at 10:49 PM
EU regulations raise the costs of clinical trials
In his The Pulse article The Vioxx Directive of March 8th, Anders Sandberg argues that medical treatments that show serious side effects are rapidly withdrawn. What about EU directives?...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 AM
March 06, 2006
Sustainable growth or energy crisis?
Is Sweden a good example how to sustain sustainable economic growth and moving beyond oil dependency, or are the present policies in fact causing an energy crisis? Waldemar Ingdahl explores the issue in his article Cold Times Ahead: Energy Policies...Posted by Waldemar at 02:23 PM
March 03, 2006
The benefits of longevity
Anders Sandberg replied with Epic gains to be had in longer life on March 3rd to Richard Tomkins' comment in the Financial Times of Febraury 27th Why immortality would be a dead loss for humanity In his column "Why immortality...Posted by Waldemar at 03:35 PM
GMO hysteria
Nima Sanandaji and Tomas Brandberg have written the article Frankenfood? Hysteria is not a helpful criticism in The New Libertarian. The article is based on their Eudoxa Policy Study A scientific and ethical discussion regarding genetic modification of plants where...Posted by Waldemar at 02:40 AM
March 02, 2006
Arfwedson on the Amigo Society seminar
Jacob Arfwedson writes about Anders Sandberg's speech at the Amigo Society in his article on That's My Idea! of February 28th. Arfwedson writes in Show me your DNA, please how the seminar discussed that the mapping of the human genome...Posted by Waldemar at 10:49 AM
March 01, 2006
Isabel improves the doctor's diagnosis
In his The Pulse article Web access for better diagnosis of March 1st, Anders Sandberg examines the fact that treatments in medicine have been strongly developed lately, leaving many forms of diagnosis behind. Can decision support software, like Isabel, be...Posted by Waldemar at 02:40 PM
February 28, 2006
Seminar at the Amigo
On February 22nd Anders Sandberg spoke in Brussels about the current status of pharmacogenomics and its application in health care. Dr. Sandberg speaking at the Amigo Society Dr. Sandberg and Director Robby Berloznik of the Health Technology Assessment Center of...Posted by Waldemar at 10:54 AM
February 17, 2006
Petition on the excise tax policy in the European Union
We at Eudoxa share the worries of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, thus we have elected to co-sign their petition on the excise tax policy in the European Union. The Petition has been prepared in view of adverse effects of...Posted by Waldemar at 04:11 PM
February 15, 2006
Who do I have to sue to get some treatment here?
In his The Pulse article The High Costs of Centralization of February 15th, Anders Sandberg tells us about how a British nurse has had to sue to get a breat cancer medicine. The fear of costly new treatments due to...Posted by Waldemar at 01:40 PM
February 13, 2006
Ethical consumption
It is time modern consumers accept, and embrace the responsibility their freedom of choice brings to them, writes Lene Johansen in her February 13th article Aristotle 101 for the Modern Consumer at LewRockwell.com...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
February 12, 2006
Sandberg comments on intellectual property
Anders Sandberg makes a comment on intellectual property from his speech at the seminar Får jag lov? on February 3rd....Posted by Waldemar at 02:33 PM
February 09, 2006
They will never accept it
In her Tech Central Station Europe article Hard to Swallow of February 9th, Lene Johansen comments on the outrage displayed by anti-GMO groups after the World Trade Organization this week ruled in favor of the United States in the dispute...Posted by Waldemar at 05:45 PM
Europe needs to reform its academic research institutions
In his TCS Daily Europe article Old School of February 9th, Waldemar Ingdahl calls for a reformation of the European academic research institutions....Posted by Waldemar at 09:08 AM
February 08, 2006
Biotechnology and the promise of tailor-made medicines
The Amigo Society organizes a speech by the Eudoxa think tank's science director Anders Sandberg at Hotel Amigo, Rue de l' Amigo 1-3, in Brussels on Wednesday February 22nd between 19.00-20.30 o'clock. The life sciences have ushered in a veritable...Posted by Waldemar at 04:55 PM
The problem with medicalization
In his The Pulse article Enhancements against Medicalization of February 8th, Anders Sandberg discusses the problem with a medicalizing approach in geriatrics. It introduces new threats to protect against as science advances. Would a change of perspective on enhancing medicine...Posted by Waldemar at 10:35 AM
February 01, 2006
The first cost of threats is openness
In his The Pulse article Winning by Making Everybody Lose of February 1st, Anders Sandberg tells us how he recently was threatened with violence as were most researchers with Oxford university. This because the university is involved in animal research....Posted by Waldemar at 07:41 PM
January 27, 2006
Neurological diversity
In his The Pulse article Brussels Meets the Minds of January 25th, Anders Sandberg examines the results of a citizen’s panel of the "Meeting of Minds" project. It delivered its final report on brain science to the European Parliament on...Posted by Waldemar at 01:42 PM
January 18, 2006
Fine on paper, messy practice
In his The Pulse article Is the English patient free? of January 18th, Anders Sandberg gives his review about the top-down imposed patient choice program in the National Health Service....Posted by Waldemar at 07:35 PM
January 11, 2006
Arcology, campus or network?
In his The Pulse article The Hospital of the future of January 11th, Anders Sandberg writes about three conflicting views of the future hospital and their benefits and drawback: the arcology, the medical campus and network hospital....Posted by Waldemar at 08:18 PM
December 28, 2005
Dr. Google is in
In his The Pulse article Is Google Santa Claus? of December 28th, Anders Sandberg examines how the use of Google could help the medical profession as a decision support tool....Posted by Waldemar at 03:57 PM
December 21, 2005
Adding just a bit of market doesn't do the trick
In his The Pulse article Every reform needs examples more than advocates of December 21st, Anders Sandberg writes that there is a common belief that one can just add market power to a small part of the health care system...Posted by Waldemar at 02:51 PM
December 20, 2005
The deadlock on biological materials
In his TCS Daily Europe article Here Come the Bio-Vikings! of December 20th, Waldemar Ingdahl discusses how Swedish expedition ship Götheborg highlights the need to emphasize science over politics in the biodiversity debate...Posted by Waldemar at 09:49 AM
December 16, 2005
Preparing for a new pandemic
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Future Flu Fight of December 16th, Anders Sandberg discusses the avian flu and what problems might emerge from the pandemic panic reactions and a feeling of entitlement to low cost vaccines....Posted by Waldemar at 02:25 AM
December 14, 2005
Nutrigenomics and vegetables
In his The Pulse article Eat Your Greens– If You Have a Faulty Gluthatione s-transferase of December 14th, Anders Sandberg discusses how genomics and nutrition science are combined today into a new field. How will a more precise comprehension of...Posted by Waldemar at 05:54 PM
December 09, 2005
Eudoxa's science director at the Nobel Prize
Eudoxa's science director Anders Sandberg is covering the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm in association with Seed Magazine. In a series of articles Anders Sandberg will give his impressions and thoughts on the Nobel Prize and today's science. Read the...Posted by Waldemar at 06:21 AM
December 07, 2005
How to adopt electronic medical record systems in health care
In his The Pulse article Design Software with Us, Mahalo of December 7th, Anders Sandberg examines electronic medical record systems. Electronic medical record systems promise many benefits, both in cost savings, safety, accountability and ease of movement for patients. But...Posted by Waldemar at 10:31 AM
December 06, 2005
Dear Mr. Barroso
In his TCS Daily Europe article Booze Without Borders of December 6th, Waldemar Ingdahl writes a letter to the President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso regarding the Swedish government's retail monopoly on alcohol....Posted by Waldemar at 08:59 AM
December 02, 2005
Eudoxa in South Africa
Waldemar Ingdahl's article WTO Must Eradicate Tariffs on AIDS Medicines has been published in the South African Insurance Times and Investment News of December 2nd....Posted by Waldemar at 08:55 PM
December 01, 2005
WTO Must Eradicate Tariffs on AIDS Medicines
Swedish think tank urges that Hong Kong Ministerial must address regressive nature of tariffs on medicine The WTO must mark World AIDS Day by calling for the elimination of tariffs on AIDS medicines says Swedish Think Tank Eudoxa. The upcoming...Posted by Waldemar at 03:27 PM
November 30, 2005
Introduction for The Atlantic Connection
Waldemar Ingdahl was asked to write the introduction to the American Legislative Exhange Council's newsletter The Atlantic Connection, issue XI November 2005....Posted by Waldemar at 07:14 PM
Building novel biological functions and systems
In his The Pulse article Synthetic biology? Isn't normal biology hard enough? of November 30th, Anders Sandberg examines the research field of Synthetic Biology. The field is a natural reflection of the critical mass of genomic and engineering ability we...Posted by Waldemar at 04:48 PM
November 29, 2005
The Internet after WSIS and the introduction of the .eu top domain
At the the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis earlier in November a compromise was reached regarding the control over the Domain Name System. What will this mean for the Internet's future? Waldemar Ingdahl writes about it...Posted by Waldemar at 01:13 AM
November 25, 2005
Ingdahl quoted in the Calgary Herald
David Agren quoted Waldemar Ingdahl in the Calgary Herald on June 2nd regarding Ingdahl's article Swedish Meatballs?...Posted by Waldemar at 03:40 PM
November 16, 2005
The new pharmacology
On the 10th of November Anders Sandberg spoke at the Centre for the New Europe Health Luncheon in Brussels. A transcript of his speech The new pharmacology: are tailor-made drugs changing health care is now available as a pdf-file. In...Posted by Waldemar at 10:22 AM
November 09, 2005
The rumours of the death of antibiotics have been exaggerated
In his The Pulse article Resistant Antibiotics of November 9th, Anders Sandberg examines the worry that unless free antibiotics use is controlled the era of antibiotics will end, due to bacteria evolving resistance. Sandberg points out that the twin evolutionary...Posted by Waldemar at 07:50 PM
November 04, 2005
Dare we take the demographic leap?
On the 14th of October Waldemar Ingdahl spoke at the European Research Bank meeting in Vilnius. His speech has been edited and extended into a PDF-file Dare we take the demographic leap? in which Ingdahl argues that in order to...Posted by Waldemar at 02:20 PM
November 02, 2005
The new era of biogenerics
In his The Pulse article Making the Biogenerics Grow of November 2nd, Anders Sandberg points at the era of biogenerics: pharmaceutical preparations of naturally occurring substances such as hormones, where the patent protection for production has expired. Will each new...Posted by Waldemar at 06:59 PM
October 31, 2005
Anders Sandberg speaks on pharmacogenomics
On Thursday, the 10th of November Eudoxa's science director Anders Sandberg will speak at the Centre for the New Europe's Health Luncheon. Dr. Sandberg's topic will be The New Pharmacology: how tailor-made drugs are changing healthcare based on The New...Posted by Waldemar at 05:38 PM
October 26, 2005
Electronic Health Records
In his The Pulse article A Less Deadly Paper Replacement of October 26th, Anders Sandberg discusses The Center for Health Transformation's and Newt Gingrich's suggestion for Electronic Health Records (HER)....Posted by Waldemar at 02:44 PM
October 21, 2005
Risk management at the European Parliament
Eudoxa's director Waldemar Ingdahl has been invited as a participant at the American Legislative Exchange Council working luncheon "Risk management- the precautionary principle or risk-based solutions" at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on October 25th. The article REACH Retreat in...Posted by Waldemar at 09:56 PM
October 20, 2005
Ingdahl quoted in Tech Central Station
James Pinkerton quotes Waldemar Ingdahl's article Making Immunity More Than Skin Deep on the issue of the avian flu....Posted by Waldemar at 09:18 AM
The poster boy of science
Waldemar Ingdahl examines the merits and flaws of the poster boy of science in the article Desperately Seeking Albert at LewRockwell.com on October 20th. As The World Year of Physics draws to a close, the figure of Albert Einstein has...Posted by Waldemar at 09:01 AM
October 12, 2005
Fighting the flu
In his The Pulse article Trapping the Flu in a Net of October 12th, Anders Sandberg discusses the recent revival of the the Spanish Flu virus for scientific purposes. Sandberg also reviews various epidemiological strategies for fighting easily transmittable diseases....Posted by Waldemar at 01:17 PM
October 05, 2005
Less deaths than ever before
In his The Pulse article Mortality isn’t What it Used to be of October 5th, Anders Sandberg alerts us on the fact that mortality rates seem to drop more sharply than previously thought of. What could this mean for health...Posted by Waldemar at 07:36 PM
October 04, 2005
The European Resource Bank Meeting
Waldemar Ingdahl has been invited as a speaker on the topic Dismantling the Social (In)Security Pyramid: What's the Way Out for the European Pension(er)s? at the European Resource Bank Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, held between October 14th-15th....Posted by Waldemar at 01:42 PM
October 03, 2005
Reducing REACH
In his Tech Central Station Europe article REACH Retreat of October 3rd, Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the recent developments of the European Union's proposed chemicals policy- REACH. The final proposal seems to be a substantial reduction of the scope of REACH,...Posted by Waldemar at 11:10 PM
September 30, 2005
Hampering magnetic imaging
In his The Pulse article Magnetic repulsion of September 28th, Anders Sandberg adresses the issue of protection for health care personnel. Will the limits put by the European Union and the United Kingdom on exposure to electromagnetic fields unnecessarily block...Posted by Waldemar at 01:54 PM
September 29, 2005
Mechanisms of ageing
Anders Sandberg has together with João Pedro de Magalhães, of Harvard Medical School, written the paper Cognitive aging as an extension of brain development: A model linking learning, brain plasticity, and neurodegeneration in the October issue of Mechanisms of Ageing...Posted by Waldemar at 10:43 AM
September 27, 2005
Eudoxa Policy Study #6: A scientific and ethical discussion regarding genetic modification of plants
Mankind has during many thousands of years changed the genetic setup of plants in order to achieve better harvests. Modern genetic methods are an extension of traditional breeding methods, which enable us to create new varieties of plants that have...Posted by Waldemar at 03:15 AM
September 21, 2005
Turning a blind eye on the tougher problems
In his The Pulse article A Strike for the Status Quo of September 21th, Anders Sandberg examines the UK government's answer to the House of Commons Health Select Committee. Instead of addressing issues like ties between regulators and the industry,...Posted by Waldemar at 10:28 PM
September 20, 2005
Increase consumer choice regarding pharmaceuticals
By Waldemar Ingdahl and Charlotte Cederschiöld, Member of the European Parliament The recent proposals to create a European database open to the public with information about safety and efficiency in pharmaceuticals is a good step towards increasing consumer choice and...Posted by Waldemar at 10:44 AM
September 14, 2005
Allergies: a problem on the rise and possible cures
In his The Pulse article Cleaning Out Allergies of September 14th, Anders Sandberg points out that allergies are becoming a major health problem affecting one person in five. What is the cause of the rapid increase in allergies, and can...Posted by Waldemar at 11:30 AM
September 11, 2005
Don't make a monkey out of genome kinship
Waldemar Ingdahl writes about the genetic similarity between apes and humans in Basing ethics on genetic similarities is no way to go, in the Financial Times of September 10th. Clive Cookson proposes the effectual end of using chimpanzees as scientific...Posted by Waldemar at 10:39 AM
September 10, 2005
New report on the future of medicine
"Tekniken befriar kroppen- framtidens medicinska teknik, patienterna och sjukvården" (Technology liberates the body- the future's medical technology, the patients and health care) is a new report published by Health Consumer Powerhouse. Written by Eudoxa's Anders Sandberg, Alexander Sanchez and Waldemar...Posted by Waldemar at 02:33 AM
September 08, 2005
Can science reports be trusted?
In his The Pulse article Would You Trust This Report? of September 7th, Anders Sandberg discusses the provocative essay "Why most published research findings are false" by John P.A. Ioannidis. Are the results of medical studies that certain? Is science...Posted by Waldemar at 01:02 PM
August 26, 2005
Sweden- the most creative nation in the world?
Is Sweden the most creative nation in the world, surpassing by far the United States? According to Richard Florida, author of the book The Flight of the Creative Class, it is. Waldemar Ingdahl does not dispute that Florida makes some...Posted by Waldemar at 11:54 AM
The dangers of data retention
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Who's Watching? of August 23rd, Waldemar Ingdahl criticizes the recent far-reaching and costly proposal in the EU regarding the mandatory retention of communication data for 3 years...Posted by Waldemar at 01:40 AM
24 hour society
In his The Pulse article The Awake Society of August 22nd, Anders Sandberg reports on the drug CX717 that removes the deleterious effects of sleep deprivation on mental performance. Sandberg asks if it will become the smart drug of choice...Posted by Waldemar at 12:30 AM
August 20, 2005
Snus vs. traditional smokeless tobacco
By Alexander Sanchez Reading a story on Edinburgh's Bangladeshi community chewing a traditional smokeless tobacco type known as "paan", alerted me on the importance of differentiating between various types of smokeless tobacco. Many traditional types of oral tobacco are indeed...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 AM
August 17, 2005
The cyborg citizen
On September 15th and 16th Södertörn university college will arrange a conference on the topic The Virtual- a room without borders? . Invited as moderator for the theme The cyborg citizen is Anders Sandberg from the Eudoxa think tank. In...Posted by Waldemar at 12:01 AM
August 16, 2005
Waldemar Ingdahl starts new blog
Waldemar Ingdahl starts his new personal blog. On Techne he will share his thoughts and opinions on current affairs in a more informal way. Be sure to read the blogs of Lene Johansen and Anders Sandberg....Posted by Waldemar at 11:27 AM
August 15, 2005
The quest for the perfect smile
Lene Johansen reports on how the visit to the dentist's has changed lately. In the 80's dentists seemed to be running themselves out of business by being too efficient in reducing cavities and tooth decay. Then dentists discovered they could...Posted by Waldemar at 06:15 PM
The Holy Grail of fitness equipment
Lene Johansen reports on how Robert Kissel created a self-regulating weight stack for weight-lifting machines that automatically adapts to the strength of the exerciser. This enables users to see quicker results from their exercise. Read more in Johansen's article Exertron...Posted by Waldemar at 04:21 PM
Tobacco cures cancer
Lene Johansen reports on the tobacco plantations of Chlorogen Inc. Chlorogen's patented technology expresses proteins in the tobacco plant's chloroplast, the component of a cell that carries out photosynthesis. Plant-made pharmaceuticals is a platform technology for expressing a wide range...Posted by Waldemar at 11:15 AM
Curing neurogenerative diseases?
Lene Johansen reports on how Dr. Jeffrey Milbrandt identified a protein that delays the breakdown of axons, the part of the brain cell that broadcasts nerve impulses to other neurons. Axonal degeneration is related to diseases such as Alzheimer's, amyotrophic...Posted by Waldemar at 08:25 AM
August 09, 2005
Interviewing female business leaders
On August 5th Lene Johansen interviewed seven of the most powerful female business leaders in the St. Louis area. The women featured in the St. Louis Business Journal's series "Most influential business women 2005" are Kathleen Buescher, Michelle Holliday-Levy, Dr....Posted by Waldemar at 09:50 AM
August 03, 2005
GMO as the norm
In her TCS Daily Europe article Crop Circles of August 3rd, Lene Johansen says that making food more expensive is bad social policy. Johansen's article discusses the problems involved with the EU regarding GMO crops as identity preserved crops, and...Posted by Waldemar at 08:43 AM
August 01, 2005
Carefree living
Lene Johansen reports on a new housing trend: carefree living. Read more in her article Terra's Pine View brings care-free living to Highland in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on July 29th....Posted by Waldemar at 05:06 PM
July 28, 2005
Venture capitalists are people too!
Representative Sam Graves (R-MO), Senators Kit Bond (R-MO) and Jim Talent (R-MO) have issued a bill labeled: Save America's Biotechnology Innovative Research Act of 2005. The issue at stake is important: are venture capital firms to be considered individuals in...Posted by Waldemar at 12:20 PM
July 27, 2005
Hard drive lockdown
Lene Johansen reports that Centurion Technologies Inc has launched an enhanced edition of its hard drive configuration protection software. Traditional approaches to the problem of unwanted configuration changes include locking down the user's ability to make changes. How can users...Posted by Waldemar at 01:37 PM
The new exigences of microsurgery
In his The Pulse article A Fantastic Voyage of July 27th, Anders Sandberg discusses how the steady introduction of microsurgery in health care requires surgeons that are more at home with a computer than a scalpel....Posted by Waldemar at 12:20 PM
July 22, 2005
Swedish harm reduction for Scotland
In The Scotsman of July 22nd, Waldemar Ingdahl writes about the Swedish smokeless tobacco know as "snus" and the harm reduction strategy in Swedish answer to cancer (registration required)...Posted by Waldemar at 06:08 AM
July 20, 2005
Cyberchondria and health care
In his The Pulse article Curing Cyberchondria with Gold Stars of July 20th, Anders Sandberg explains a new form of hyperchondria. With widespread web access and medical information online, it is not surprising that many patients self-diagnose themselves wrong. How...Posted by Waldemar at 02:35 PM
The end of the CAP?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Scrap the CAP of July 20th, Waldemar Ingdahl explains the history of the Common Agricultural Policy, the recent attempts to abolish it, and the problems the CAP might cause in the future....Posted by Waldemar at 09:55 AM
July 18, 2005
Profiling the future
On July 15th Lene Johansen makes five interviews with up-and-coming persons in the business community in the St. Louis Business Journal's series "30 under 30". The persons are Michael Novack at Kiosite LLC, Dr. Amit Dhawan at Mattson Jack Group,...Posted by Waldemar at 03:21 PM
July 15, 2005
Commissioner Verheugen replies to the Eudoxa think tank’s petition on information to patients
The Commissioner reassures his interest to prioritise information to patients The pan-European petition initiated by Eudoxa has been replied by Commissioner Günter Verheugen. The Commissioner indicates his positive view on increasing consumer information on pharmaceuticals. "The Commission gives a high...Posted by Waldemar at 10:08 AM
July 14, 2005
New software empowers the patient
In his The Pulse article Eliza, Meet Emmi of July 13th, Anders Sandberg tells us about EMMI (Expectation Management and Medical Information), a new software system that seeks to reduce the number of malpractice suits by guiding patients through medical...Posted by Waldemar at 02:18 AM
July 06, 2005
Playing the race card is a red herring
In his The Pulse article Racist or Just Too Obvious? of July 6th, Anders Sandberg tells us about how gene patent has come under scrutiny on the basis that it is "racist"....Posted by Waldemar at 03:21 PM
July 05, 2005
Directive provides Europe with opportunities for innovation
Opportunity for the European parliament to foster European innovation and competitiveness. Intellectual property is critical for the EU's hopes to grow into a knowledge economy. If the European Parliament accepts the directive on the patentability of CII (Computer Implemented Inventions)...Posted by Waldemar at 04:38 PM
June 30, 2005
Vote CII for innovation?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article D-Day for Innovation of June 30th, Waldemar Ingdahl reports from The Innovation Day: Europe event and discusses the issue of intellectual property on the eve of the European Parliament's vote on the new...Posted by Waldemar at 12:14 AM
June 29, 2005
No worries about gene testing
In his The Pulse article Happy about gene testing of June 29th, Anders Sandberg reports about a new study about patients attitudes towards gene testing. Previous worries have been regarding gene testing causing anxiety and depression rather than helping people...Posted by Waldemar at 06:33 PM
Troubles to fill in residential property
Lene Johansen reports how Clayton looks for developers to fill in residential property around the two new MetroLink stations. Read more in her article MetroLink construction slows sale of homes near track in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required)...Posted by Waldemar at 05:57 PM
June 28, 2005
Adding incentives for development
Lene Johansen reports how Clayton, St. Louis second downtown, is reconsidering how it attracts development to the city. Read more in her article Clayton considers adding incentives for development in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on June 24th....Posted by Waldemar at 11:32 AM
June 27, 2005
Eudoxa at the Innovation Day
The Eudoxa think tank's staff members Waldemar Ingdahl and Anders Sandberg were present at the Innovation Day: Europe, an event on innovation and intellectual property rights at the EU-level that took place on the 22nd of June in Brussels. In...Posted by Waldemar at 11:06 AM
June 24, 2005
Costs hinder plant research
Lene Johansen reports that most of the institutions conducting research into plant agriculture are not-for-profit, which cannot afford to commercialize the products in today's regulatory climate. Read more in her article Costs hinder plant research in the St. Louis Business...Posted by Waldemar at 10:02 AM
Thinking about the WIPO
By Waldemar Ingdahl The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has come under pressure from developing countries to endorse a "Development Agenda" that could inflict significant costs on advanced economies and slow down the less developed economies by weakening the protection...Posted by Waldemar at 09:31 AM
June 23, 2005
Competition in Dutch health care
In his The Pulse article Liberalisation in the Netherlands of June 22nd, Anders Sandberg reports that The Netherlands has approved of competition into health service. What will this mean for European health care policy?...Posted by Waldemar at 09:49 PM
June 21, 2005
Reforming the House
Lene Johansen reports about reforms in the Missouri house of Representatives in her article Jetton fosters changes in House rules in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on June 17th....Posted by Waldemar at 05:49 AM
Unhealthy industry
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Cure for What Ails EU of June 21st, Waldemar Ingdahl explains the current problems of the European pharmaceutical industry and offers some possible solutions....Posted by Waldemar at 04:52 AM
The work behind the scenes
Lene Johansen reports about the work involved in balancing Missouri's state budget in her article Gross' dedication to balanced budget admired by colleagues in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on June 17th....Posted by Waldemar at 01:53 AM
June 20, 2005
Making the system more efficient for legitimate claims
Lene Johansen reports about how Missouri reformed its workers' compensation system in her article Hunter successful advocate for workers' comp reform in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on June 17th....Posted by Waldemar at 09:29 AM
June 18, 2005
Crawling the health web
In his The Pulse article Crawling the Health Web of June 16th, Anders Sandberg explains that patients know the most about how a drug affects their lives, but so far that local information has only filtered up slowly through doctors...Posted by Waldemar at 01:28 AM
June 16, 2005
World Intellectual Property Organization Under Assault from Developing Countries
Development Agenda, Allegations Could Impede WIPO and the Third World, says Swedish think tank. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has come under pressure from developing countries to endorse a ‘Development Agenda’ that could inflict significant costs on advanced economies...Posted by Waldemar at 04:04 PM
Open up for more information to consumers regarding pharmaceuticals
In The Daily Telegraph of June 11th, Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article Internet doctoring together with Charlotte Cederschiöld, Member of the European Parliament on the topic of the proposed Europharm database. The European Commission plans to provide the public with...Posted by Waldemar at 04:00 AM
June 13, 2005
Competing for companies
In her article New bill could help bring relocating firms to state in the St. Louis Business Journal of June 10th (registration required) Lene Johansen describes Missouri's The Quality Jobs Act and how it creates incentives to stay in the...Posted by Waldemar at 07:33 PM
Moving scammers
Lene Johansen reports about UniGroup Inc. has launched a Web site to assist consumers in avoiding and combating rogue operators in the moving market. In her article UniGroup Inc. takes fight against rogue movers online in the St. Louis Business...Posted by Waldemar at 04:52 PM
June 08, 2005
Giving away generic drugs for free?
In his The Pulse article The First Dose is Free of June 8th, Anders Sandberg says that generic medicines might be fine, if you're the one paying for them, but patients and doctors think otherwise....Posted by Waldemar at 04:15 PM
June 07, 2005
Changes at International Fuel
Lene Johansen reports about the opportunity for a new additive that might increase fuel efficiency by about 7 percent in her article Shell Oil executives give International Fuel a boost in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on June...Posted by Waldemar at 10:58 PM
June 02, 2005
Interview with the Missouri Biotechnology Association
Lene Johansen interviews Kelly Gillespie in her article Gillespie named to head MoBio in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on May 31st Gillespie is the new executive of the Missouri Biotechnology Association and he discusses the MoBio's new...Posted by Waldemar at 10:08 PM
Past and present futures
Anders Sandberg comments on the past modenist vision of the future and compares it with today's plenthora of visions....Posted by Waldemar at 04:10 PM
Comments on the European constitution
By Waldemar Ingdahl Some of our readers have asked us about a comment on the results of recent referenda in France and the Netherlands regarding the European constitution. It suffices to reiterate my criticisms in conjunction to last year's election...Posted by Waldemar at 03:26 PM
Bewilderment and the Swedish pharmaceutical monopoly
In his The Pulse article We will get the headache pills you ordered within a few years of June 2nd, Anders Sandberg discusses the verdict of the European Court of Justice, the official Swedish reaction and what this might mean...Posted by Waldemar at 12:44 PM
May 28, 2005
Drawing the bioethical line
Anders Sandberg makes a deeper discussion about the bioethical debate at the international conference "Legitimate and illegitimate enhancements, where to draw the line?" and asks what the future for bodily enhancement may have in store....Posted by Waldemar at 09:43 PM
May 25, 2005
"Swifter, higher, stronger", the new motto of health care?
In his The Pulse article Patients Outrunning the Athletes of May 25th, Anders Sandberg tells us about his impressions at the international conference "Legitimate and illegitimate enhancements, where to draw the line?" held at Stockholm university this week....Posted by Waldemar at 11:59 AM
May 23, 2005
Morphological freedom and sport freedom
On May 23rd Anders Sandberg was invited as a speaker by Stockholm University to the international conference "Legitimate and illegitimate enhancements, where to draw the line?". Other speakers at the conference included among others Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm University), Nick Boström...Posted by Waldemar at 10:09 AM
May 21, 2005
Unleashing the Internet's content
Eudoxa's science director Anders Sandberg explains how we have at present reached a new stage in the development of the Internet. There is enough easily accessible (and enterable) content on the Net. When you can mine Google, the wikipedia, Flickr,...Posted by Waldemar at 12:47 AM
May 20, 2005
Censoring the debate on global warming
Eudoxa's science director Anders Sandberg discusses how major scientific journals appear to reject dissenting opinions about climate change, both by rejecting papers and by not using dissenters as reviewers for papers...Posted by Waldemar at 12:52 AM
May 18, 2005
Implanted concerns
In his The Pulse article An Implanted Debate of May 18th, Anders Sandberg adresses the concerns expressed by the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), regarding the risks to integrity and non-medical uses for "smart" electronical...Posted by Waldemar at 01:40 PM
May 17, 2005
The elite feminists and the corporate boards
In her TCS Daily Europe article Norway to Treat a Lady of May 17th, Lene Johansen tells us about the new law in Norway requiring female representation on corporate boards in Norway, and why it will only hurt women's rights....Posted by Waldemar at 10:15 AM
May 16, 2005
Can cancer be defeated?
By Waldemar Ingdahl The war on cancer was started by President Richard Nixon in 1971. Most experts expected a cure in about a decade’s time. The war is still ongoing today, more than thirty years after, but the National Institute...Posted by Waldemar at 02:35 PM
May 12, 2005
Petition to the Commission and the European Parliament on consumer information regarding pharmaceuticals
The Eudoxa think tank wishes to express its gratitude to all the co-signers to our petition to the European Commission and to the Members of the European Parliament. It is our hope that the Commission and the Parliament will support...Posted by Waldemar at 10:28 PM
Will functional food work?
In his The Pulse article Healthcare Food of May 11th, Anders Sandberg examines if the solution to rising healthcare costs can be found in functional food?...Posted by Waldemar at 01:31 PM
May 11, 2005
Eudoxa joins group formed to improve access to life-saving medicines and medical devices
The Eudoxa think tank has joined No Taxes on Drugs and Devices Initiative (NtDDi), a program designed to eradicate taxes and tariffs imposed by governments of developing countries on medicines and medical devices....Posted by Waldemar at 10:21 AM
May 09, 2005
Planting intelligent rice
Lene Johansen has done a three part series for KBIA radio (aired on April 25th, 26th & 27th respectively) about Ventria Bioscience's application to plant pharmaceutical rice in Missouri. In the first part she talks to scientists familiar with Ventria...Posted by Waldemar at 03:32 AM
May 04, 2005
Influencing your doctor
In his The Pulse article Asking for more of May 4th, Anders Sandberg asks if patients can influence their doctors' medical treatment decisions? Studies show that they can, and Sandberg argues that this is a positive occurence rather than a...Posted by Waldemar at 02:40 PM
April 21, 2005
No cure for cancer
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Casualties of War of April 21st, Waldemar Ingdahl writes about what we can learn from The War on Cancer, The War on Drugs and The War on Terror....Posted by Waldemar at 10:29 PM
Keep an eye on the UK
By Anders Sandberg Readers of my weekly column on The Pulse might have noticed that I have done a lot of references to reports and studies done in the United Kingdom. Why so many stories about the UK? Besides the...Posted by Waldemar at 09:00 PM
April 20, 2005
Regulating contacts between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry
In his The Pulse article Trusting the "armed and dangerous" pharma industry? of April 20th, Anders Sandberg takes a look at the influence of the pharmaceutical industry and how this is perceived by the policymakers....Posted by Waldemar at 12:45 PM
April 13, 2005
Choosing our children's sex
In his The Pulse article Selecting sex selection? of April 13th, Anders Sandberg examines the new law proposed in the UK about sex selection for non-medical reasons. Is this a valid procedure people should be able to choose, and should...Posted by Waldemar at 04:16 PM
April 07, 2005
Ingdahl quoted in Tech Central Station
Marcus Stober quotes Waldemar Ingdahl's article Pirates of the European on the issue of striking a balance between protecting intellectual property and protecting civil liberties...Posted by Waldemar at 05:39 PM
April 06, 2005
Can a health database be maintained in a democratic bottom-up fashion?
In his The Pulse article Informed choice from informed databases of April 6th, Anders Sandberg says that the recent proposal to create a European database open to the public with information about safety and efficiency in pharmaceuticals is another step...Posted by Waldemar at 06:03 PM
April 03, 2005
EU consultation on data protection issues related to RFID technology
The Eudoxa think tank has given its response to the European Commission's call for interested parties to express their comments on Working Document 105 on data protection issues related to RFID technology....Posted by Waldemar at 12:40 PM
EU consultation on data protection issues related to intellectual property rights
Dear Sirs, My name is Waldemar Ingdahl, and I am the director of Eudoxa, a Swedish think tank specialized in discussing scientific progress, technological innovation and their effects on society. In response to your interest for interested parties to express...Posted by Waldemar at 12:23 PM
March 30, 2005
The intimisation of politics
Lene Johansen makes an interesting comment on EU commissioner Margot Wallström's website and the intimisation of politicians' public persona....Posted by Waldemar at 04:07 PM
Ingdahl quoted in Tech Central Station
Nick Schulz quotes Waldemar Ingdahl's article Swedish Meatballs? on the issue of regulation and prohibition of food commercials....Posted by Waldemar at 10:02 AM
March 29, 2005
A sudden Nordic expansion of the EU?
In her TCS Daily Europe article Nordic Combined of March 29th, Lene Johansen examines the recent developments in Iceland and Norway. Was EEA membership not the alternative to EU membership it was portrayed to be?...Posted by Waldemar at 08:20 AM
March 23, 2005
Laughter is a serious issue
In his The Pulse article The best medicine of March 23rd, Anders Sandberg explains why laughter just might be a bit more important than a moment of fun when it comes to health care policy...Posted by Waldemar at 12:43 PM
Increase consumer choice with medical database
Commissioner Verheugen is on the right track The recent proposals to create a European database open to public with information about safety and efficiency in pharmaceuticals is a good step towards increasing consumer choice and preparing for a new situation...Posted by Waldemar at 08:12 AM
March 17, 2005
Distinguishing addictions
In his The Pulse article The right drug for the right person of March 16th, Anders Sandberg adresses the issue that people are differently vulnerable to addiction and react differently to different drugs. But what is new is that these...Posted by Waldemar at 08:10 AM
March 11, 2005
The internet patient demands information and self-determination
In his Tech Central Station Europe article The Well-Informed Patient of March 11th, Waldemar Ingdahl points out the first signs of change with the upcoming abolition of the Swedish government's monopoly on the retail of pharmaceuticals. It is not going...Posted by Waldemar at 07:35 AM
March 10, 2005
The neuroethics debate is a step forward
By Anders Sandberg People are starting to realize how profoundly neuroscience matters to many areas, and that things are happening at a fast pace. If one considers the enormous influence by Freud on the 20th century (for good and worse)...Posted by Waldemar at 07:35 PM
March 09, 2005
The Bad Habit of Addictification
By Anders Sandberg Today I attended the release of the Eudoxa Report: Fair Play och moralpaniken by Rasmus Fleischer, a report dealing with the issues of moral panic, gaming, internet addiction and how NGOs work to become part of the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:04 PM
Pacemakers cure depressions
In his The Pulse article Blessed are the pacemakers of March 9th, Anders Sandberg discusses brain pacemakers and the ethical issues they bring to health care...Posted by Waldemar at 02:38 PM
DNA-vaccines, will they save the day?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Making Immunity More Than Skin Deep of March 9th, Waldemar Ingdahl analyzes the problems with the vaccine market today, the warning sent to us by the avian flu scare, and how research on...Posted by Waldemar at 09:33 AM
March 02, 2005
Treating mitochondrial diseases
In his The Pulse article The very protofection of a man of March 2nd, Anders Sandberg talks about a new hope for currently untreatable mitochondrial diseases and of how rapidly the genomics revolution is changing medicine....Posted by Waldemar at 02:10 PM
February 26, 2005
Ingdahl quoted in The American Spectator
Waldemar Ingdahl was quoted by Doug Bandow in The American Spectator on February 24th, regarding the issue of the WHO's HIV debacle....Posted by Waldemar at 10:27 PM
February 23, 2005
A toolkit of cures for cancer
In his The Pulse article The lesson from the "war on cancer" of February 23rd, Anders Sandberg looks back on the progress of the "war on cancer" since 1971 and thinks of the future of cancer research and treatment....Posted by Waldemar at 04:19 PM
Lene Johansen finalist in competition
Eudoxa's Lene Johansen has been chosen as a finalist in the Felix Morley Journalism competition, organized by the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Congratulations, Lene, and the very best of luck in March when the final winner...Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 AM
February 22, 2005
Compliance costs in seed production
In her The Columbia Missourian article Now You Know: Seed Purity of February 14th, Lene Johansen reports that minimal changes in seed purity demands can have a high impact on production costs for seed companies....Posted by Waldemar at 02:44 PM
Look at the science- not at the funding
By Alexander Sanchez Lord Taverne has written a very interesting article Careless science costs lives in The Guardian February 18th. Lord Taverne points out that the public is wrong to regard all profit-driven science as suspect. In the end motives...Posted by Waldemar at 01:17 PM
Petition in support of the EU service directive
We at Eudoxa share the worries of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, thus we have elected to co-sign their petition in support of the EU's service directive. For the objectives of the directive to be accomplished, it is essential to...Posted by Waldemar at 12:47 AM
February 19, 2005
What can we learn from the avian flu scare?
In his The Pulse article Scare of the avian flu of February 16th, Anders Sandberg says that the recent avian flu scare most probably is exaggerated but that it stills contains a kernel of truth that we should take very...Posted by Waldemar at 01:14 PM
February 14, 2005
GMO labels do not deter European consumers
In her The Columbia Missourian article Now You Know: GMOs not deterrent of February 10th, Lene Johansen reports on a study made by Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, director of Missouri University's Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology Center. Kalaitzandonakes reports that labeling food...Posted by Waldemar at 01:42 PM
Threats are bad politics, Mr. Kyprianou
By Waldemar Ingdahl and Christofer Fjellner, Member of the European Parliament The EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Markos Kyprianou, recently said that the EU will ban the advertisements for "unhealthy" foods to children within a year if the...Posted by Waldemar at 06:06 AM
February 09, 2005
A liberal stem-cell legislation
In his The Pulse article Give stem-cell research a chance of February 9th, Anders Sandberg tells us about the recent decision of the Swedish parliament to adopt one of Europe's most liberal legislations regarding stem-cell research. He also gives a...Posted by Waldemar at 04:49 PM
February 02, 2005
Child obesity is a complex social issue
In his The Pulse article The trend of rising child obesity and paternalist health care of February 2nd, Anders Sandberg notes the trend that health policies spill over to other areas in order to appease health paternalism...Posted by Waldemar at 11:51 AM
February 01, 2005
Abortion and stem-cell research in the US- an overview
By Lene Johansen Contrary to popular belief in Scandinavia, the U.S. abortion debate is not a big deal. Pro-choice advocates bring it up during judicial nominations, and Pro-life advocates bring it up during election times to rally their constituency. Most...Posted by Waldemar at 11:06 AM
January 26, 2005
Corruption hurts consumers
By Lene Johansen I have long claimed that Norway is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption in Norway is often based upon personal contacts and favors is what change hands. Being a former politician in the...Posted by Waldemar at 10:00 PM
January 25, 2005
Nobody likes REACH
by Waldemar Ingdahl On Thursday January 20th, the European Parliament held a hearing regarding REACH, the EU Commission's proposal for a new chemicals policy. Few have grasped the consequences of REACH due to the sheer complexity and ambition with the...Posted by Waldemar at 12:12 PM
January 24, 2005
Lessons from the Swedish tsunami disaster
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Sweden's Helplessness of January 24th, Waldemar Ingdahl tells how the tsunami disaster exposed structural flaws in a supposedly perfect system...Posted by Waldemar at 10:05 AM
January 12, 2005
The final days of a monopoly
In his The Pulse article Monopoly Headaches of January 12th, Anders Sandberg talks about the Swedish government monopoly on the retail of pharmaceuticals and how the European Court of Justice may soon open up the market for competition...Posted by Waldemar at 11:08 PM
January 11, 2005
Winning the stem-cell debate
By Lene Johansen The scientific community suspects that they have found the philosopher's stone, the substance Renaissance alchemists thought was the source of longevity and good health. We all carry the substance inside our bodies, it is called stem-cells....Posted by Waldemar at 06:59 PM
January 06, 2005
Cheer up, Johan Norberg
By Waldemar Ingdahl The Swedish writer Johan Norberg notes on his blog that the US has dropped to a 12th place in the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal 2005 Index of Economic Freedom where he identifies the reason of...Posted by Waldemar at 04:26 PM
Conquering Heaven on Earth
By Lene Johansen The low cost of production in our society is making status symbols accessible to more consumers. Former status objects have become necessities. Is this the old communist dream of economical equality come true?...Posted by Waldemar at 03:52 PM
January 05, 2005
Paying for safety with lost medical opportunities
In his The Pulse article Barking up the Right Tree of January 5th, Anders Sandberg asks if Aspirin would have been approved if it had been introduced today?...Posted by Waldemar at 03:42 PM
January 04, 2005
Norms and Hortators in Small Worlds
By Anders Sandberg How do we achieve cooperation without coercive central organisations? The classical example is Axelrod's analysis of strategies in the evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma, where he could show how reciprocal strategies could eventually dominate and form largely cooperative...Posted by Waldemar at 01:19 AM
December 28, 2004
The Sanctity of Humans and the Profanity of Markets
By Lene Johansen Organizing markets for sale of human organs, use of human embryos in research and eventually in production of medical cures, and use of human reproductive technologies from basic technologies to future possibilities like germline interventions creates a...Posted by Waldemar at 03:20 PM
December 27, 2004
Keeping the ban on snus is a bad idea
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Harm Reduction Reduction of December 27th, Waldemar Ingdahl analyzes the European Court of Justice's recent decision to keep the ban on "snus" smokeless tobacco, and what this could mean for future policy issues....Posted by Waldemar at 07:21 PM
Biohacking One's Way Out?
Review by Anders Sandberg Robert Carlson, The Pace and Proliferation of Biological Technologies, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, Volume 1, Number 3, 2003 A very readable paper arguing that biotechnology skills and equipment are proliferating not just...Posted by Waldemar at 06:14 AM
December 24, 2004
Climate policy post-Buenos Aires
Waldemar Ingdahl's article Europe must lead way on climate change was published in The Daily Telegraph on December 24th With the developments at the COP10 climate summit in Buenos Aires, the Kyoto Protocol is dancing its last tango. The European...Posted by Waldemar at 07:15 AM
December 23, 2004
Missourian researchers fight anti-stem cell bill
In her The Columbia Missourian article Research groups join to fend off stem-cell ban of December 23rd, Lene Johansen reports on how Missourian research institutions are asking legislators to reject bills that would criminalize stem cell research. This also serves...Posted by Waldemar at 11:49 PM
Overproduction of embryos?
By Lene Johansen Someplace there are rows upon rows with human embryos, lined up in little jars on shallow shelves. No one will use them, they will either stay in their little jar forever, or they will be destroyed. Is...Posted by Waldemar at 12:07 AM
December 22, 2004
Liberty makes healthy
In his The Pulse article Freedom is healthy of December 22nd, Anders Sandberg discusses why freedom makes us healthier...Posted by Waldemar at 12:35 PM
December 21, 2004
WHO's to blame?
By Waldemar Ingdahl Hopes where initially set high for the newly appointed Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Lee Jong-Wook, to start a new chapter in the history of this in many times highly criticised organization. The future looked...Posted by Waldemar at 10:20 AM
December 15, 2004
Genetic tests help both the insured and the insurer
In his The Pulse article Win-Win Gene Tests of December 15th, Anders Sandberg shows how genetic testing can be made into a win-win situation both for the customers and for the insurance companies, and that it makes economic sense for...Posted by Waldemar at 08:30 PM
December 09, 2004
Open and transparent policy is better
In his The Pulse article Backstage at the Puppet Theatre of Medicine of December 8th, Anders Sandberg explains why it is better to make policy and politics as open, transparent and visible as possible....Posted by Waldemar at 05:51 AM
December 02, 2004
Don't buy into "Buy Nothing Day"
In his Tech Central Station Europe article The Super Market of December 2nd, Waldemar Ingdahl takes a look at anti-consumerism and contrasts it with the dynamism of the market....Posted by Waldemar at 08:08 PM
November 25, 2004
Opio-phobia in health care
In his The Pulse article The Border-guards of the Country of Pain of November 24th, Anders Sandberg discusses chronic pain and why it is widely under-treated, despite many effective methods....Posted by Waldemar at 11:51 PM
November 24, 2004
Eudoxa quoted by the Cato Institute
Waldemar Ingdahl was quoted by Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute in his comment Politicizing Health and Harming Patients on November 24th, regarding the issue of the WHO's HIV debacle....Posted by Waldemar at 07:55 PM
Eudoxa in Asia
Waldemar Ingdahl was quoted by Doug Bandow in The Taipei Times, The Japan Times and The Bangkok Post on November 24th and The Pakistan Observer on November 28th, regarding the issue of the WHO's HIV debacle....Posted by Waldemar at 07:20 AM
November 17, 2004
Scarcity of vaccines
In his The Pulse article Immunity is skin deep of November 17th, Anders Sandberg discusses a new method of inoculation and how it might provide a solution to the present scarcity of vaccines....Posted by Waldemar at 04:20 PM
Why the welfare state kills philantropy
By Lene Johansen Having lived some time in Kansas City I am pleased to still find treasures that I had not discovered previously. This weekend I found a new gem. It is called Linda Hall Library and is situated on...Posted by Waldemar at 09:15 AM
November 16, 2004
The trouble with vaccination
By Anders Sandberg In the present debate about vaccines the contrasts are stark. On one hand we are seeing declines in vaccination not due to economics or lack of technology but "well-disinformed parents". On the other hand it seems like...Posted by Waldemar at 11:25 AM
November 15, 2004
The horror of Alzheimer's disease
In her The Columbia Missourian article Facing Alzheimer's of November 14th, Lene Johansen tells us about one man's struggle with Alzheimer's and what can be done to alleviate it....Posted by Waldemar at 05:09 AM
November 12, 2004
St. John's Wort and our demand for medical information
In his The Pulse article Continuing the Quarrel Inside the Body of November 10th, Anders Sandberg uses the herb St. John's Wort and its effects, to explain what will happen if health consumers are free to select what kind of...Posted by Waldemar at 10:17 AM
November 10, 2004
Will cognitive enhancer drugs become the next battlefield?
By Anders Sandberg Off-label prescription of cognitive enhancer drugs. This might very well be the next big medical policy battlefield. On one hand, off-label prescriptions enable exploration, customization to patient needs and new treatment for disorders. On the other hand...Posted by Waldemar at 06:10 PM
November 03, 2004
Would you change your name to fit your job email?
In his The Pulse article Procrustean Email of November 3rd, Anders Sandberg gives an example of that the key problem with moving towards e-health is not the technology, but lack of communication and organisational rigidity in health care organisations....Posted by Waldemar at 05:00 PM
Memories of the Cold War
In her The Columbia Missourian article Diplomat shares Cold War memories of November 2nd, Lene Johansen reports on a speech by Jack Matlock- the last American ambassador to the Soviet Union. Matlock gives his explanations of the fall of the...Posted by Waldemar at 08:44 AM
November 02, 2004
The US election
By Waldemar Ingdahl The Eudoxa think tank has not made any immediate comments on the US presidential election. As a think tank we do avoid it. Our focus is much more to gain an the support of the intellectuals and...Posted by Waldemar at 11:55 PM
Rethinking the U.S. science and technology policy
In her The Columbia Missourian article Speech focuses on role of science of November 1st, Lene Johansen reports on a speech by Mary Good, former undersecretary of technology administration during the Clinton administration. Good made the case that Americans need...Posted by Waldemar at 11:09 PM
November 01, 2004
In DNA We Trust
By Anders Sandberg It is strange how much people trust the DNA to tell them the truth. As one participant at a recent conference said, it is our Book of Life today. People trust DNA evidence to solve all crimes...Posted by Waldemar at 10:32 AM
October 31, 2004
The struggle over stem-cell research
Lene Johansen has written, together with Rhituparna Chatterjee, the article The cellular divide in The Columbia Missourian of October 31st. In the article Johansen and Chatterjee describe the various positions in the debate on the ethics and potential benefits of...Posted by Waldemar at 06:14 PM
The consequences of banning stem-cell research
In her The Columbia Missourian article More than health at stake in stem-cell research of October 31st, Lene Johansen shows that a stem-cell research ban could have far reaching implications beyond human health....Posted by Waldemar at 06:06 PM
October 27, 2004
Do we want to expand the biobanks?
In his The Pulse article Trust but Verify of October 27th, Anders Sandberg explains that when it comes to the public's acceptance of biotechnology and biobanks, lack of trust is the problem, not the technology per se or perceived integrity...Posted by Waldemar at 06:30 PM
October 26, 2004
Are renegade biologists the majority?
Review by Anders Sandberg Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (ed): Genometry. Ace Books, New York 2001. How many renegade biologists are there? If Genometry (a collection of stories written some of the present's best science fiction authors), is to be...Posted by Waldemar at 02:14 PM
October 25, 2004
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window
By Anders Sandberg In the light of the Vioxx and Prozac debates, how can we tell when the risks outweigh the benefits? Or when trials are too expensive, biased and sometimes unethical and benefits not necessarily anything that can be...Posted by Waldemar at 10:58 AM
October 24, 2004
After the convergence
Anders Sandberg spoke on October 22nd, at the PSCIs Biocomputing Workshop in Stockholm. Sandberg's topic was "After the convergence: info/bio/nano/cogno-technology, medicine and society" where he explained the present research vision of the merger of the aforementioned general technologies into something...Posted by Waldemar at 05:00 PM
October 23, 2004
Stem cells on the radio
Lene Johansen has done a report for KBIA radio (the Columbia MO, NPR affiliate) about stem cell research, and the increasing controversy about them in politics. Listen to Johansen's report of October 22nd here...Posted by Waldemar at 09:36 AM
October 20, 2004
Top-down risk estimates fail
In his The Pulse article Apples and oranges, Prozac and Vioxx of October 20th, Anders Sandberg discusses how the risk-aversive climate in drug testing may actually hurt more patients than are saved....Posted by Waldemar at 10:57 AM
October 16, 2004
Smurfy nanoethics
By Anders Sandberg In December 2003 the EuroNanoForum conference started the debate on nanoethics in Europe. I attended a conference on nanoethics arranged on June 7th by the Swedish Research Council. On the whole it was an interesting and constructive...Posted by Waldemar at 11:27 AM
Pecunia olet
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Smells like victory of October 15th, Waldemar Ingdahl says that this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine makes scents....Posted by Waldemar at 09:18 AM
October 13, 2004
The future of Pharming
In his The Pulse article In Tasmania’s Fields the Poppies Blow of October 13th Anders Sandberg discusses pharming, the use of genetically modified plants to produce pharmaceuticals, and it's applications....Posted by Waldemar at 12:14 PM
Controversial Nobel Peace Prize
By Waldemar Ingdahl Wangari Maathai has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. She is certainly laudable for her opposition to the authoritarian ex-president of Kenya, Daniel arap Moi and for...Posted by Waldemar at 10:57 AM
October 12, 2004
Shaping the future of Europe through appending prefixes
By Anders Sandberg A version of this article has appeared in The Sprout, October 2004 What is the best way to increase European productivity? When it comes to making policy studies, show that the Americans have already done a study!...Posted by Waldemar at 07:56 AM
October 09, 2004
The sorry state of biopolitics
In her The Columbia Missourian article Graham questions Ditmore’s "pro-life" rating of October 8th, Lene Johansen shows how two Missouri State Senate candidates decide to use stem cell research positions in the election....Posted by Waldemar at 12:52 PM
October 08, 2004
Comments on the CNE's Healthy Ageing Conference
By Anders Sandberg Brussels seems to have become a bad habit of mine lately. This week I attended the CNE Health Conference on the Politics of Healthy Ageing and European Public Opinion. Robert Perkins of the Consensus Research Group presented...Posted by Waldemar at 11:43 PM
Healthy Ageing Conference
Anders Sandberg attended the Centre for the New Europe's Health Conference on the Politics of Healthy Ageing and European Public Opinion in Brussels on October 7th, making comments and providing information, as noted in Johan Hjertqvist's article in The Pulse...Posted by Waldemar at 11:36 PM
October 06, 2004
A nose for business
In his The Pulse article The Sweet Smell of Success of October 6th, Anders Sandberg shows how this year's Nobel prize in medicine might actually contribute to quality of life on a far wider scale than many of the other...Posted by Waldemar at 10:29 AM
October 05, 2004
Lecture on benefits and dangers of biotechnology
In her The Columbia Missourian article Discussions on change of October 5th Lene Johansen reports of a recent speech held by Edmund Pellegrino, professor emeritus of medicine and ethics at Georgetown University. Pellegrino is also appointee to UNESCO’s International Bioethics...Posted by Waldemar at 10:30 PM
The new pharmacology
By Anders Sandberg and Waldemar Ingdahl The challenge for the pharmaceutical industry is to create medicines that provide profits despite the enormous development costs, which to a large extent have been created by the steep requirements of the consumers and...Posted by Waldemar at 01:42 PM
October 04, 2004
Welcome to Eudoxa's new website
The Eudoxa think tank wishes you welcome to our new website. It is our hope that it will be more easy to navigate and will contain more material than previously. It is also a website format that we at Eudoxa...Posted by Waldemar at 10:44 AM
October 03, 2004
Civil society vs. Medicare
In her The Columbia Missourian article Handle with Care of October 3rd Lene Johansen reports on how looking after ill family members requires emotional support and extra patience. She also shows the dangers of relying only on Medicare and how...Posted by Waldemar at 07:03 PM
September 24, 2004
Snus, you lose?
By Waldemar Ingdahl This article has been published in The EU Reporter, edition 20. Sweden entered the EU with an exception from the ban of selling moist oral smokeless tobacco, known as "snus"....Posted by Waldemar at 04:56 PM
September 17, 2004
Fusing sciences
In her The Columbia Missourian article Fusing sciences at MU of September 17th Lene Johansen writes about the interesting new Life Science Center at Missouri University at Columbia. How do you successfully meld scientific enquiery with technological innovation?...Posted by Waldemar at 02:27 PM
September 16, 2004
Anders Sandberg in Brussels
Anders Sandberg was invited to attend the European Commission's conference Converging Technologies for a Diverse Europe in Brussels between September 14th and 15th....Posted by Waldemar at 03:00 PM
September 14, 2004
Ethnic pharmaceuticals
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Drugs and Race of September 14th Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the new developments in pharmacogenomics....Posted by Waldemar at 04:32 AM
September 08, 2004
Blind virtual fury
In her The Columbia Missourian article Blind computer users have trouble with Internet of September 8th Lene Johansen writes about an all too seldom adressed issue. Not all technological innovations do easily improve the situation of the handicapped, but this...Posted by Waldemar at 02:23 PM
How to build a Life Science Center
In her The Columbia Missourian article Curators to weigh reactor deal of September 8th Lene Johansen gives insight into how to build a new Life Science Center....Posted by Waldemar at 02:18 PM
The paradox of private medicine
In his The Pulse article The Three Paradoxes and Three Forms of Private Medicine of September 8th Anders Sandberg worries about the public's conflicting emotions towards private health care....Posted by Waldemar at 02:09 PM
September 01, 2004
Poul la Cour and the future of wind power
By Waldemar Ingdahl Wind power has been used for a long time by humanity. We have accounts of windmills being used already in 10th century Persia, with Europeans encountering the technology in Palestine during the Crusades. For centuries wind power...Posted by Waldemar at 02:00 PM
August 31, 2004
Disgusting medicine
In his The Pulse article The Gauntlet of Disgust of August 31th, Anders Sandberg discusses that medical innovations often provoke feelings of disgust and fear when introduced. What can we do about it?...Posted by Waldemar at 01:35 PM
August 29, 2004
Eudoxa at ESOF
Between August 25th to 28th Eudoxa participated in EuroScience Open Forum 2004 in Stockholm with debating and networking....Posted by Waldemar at 01:31 PM
August 26, 2004
The Hudson Institute on Eudoxa
The Hudson Institute in Washington DC replies on August 26th to Eudoxa's statement about the WHO and HIV medicines on August 13th....Posted by Waldemar at 12:33 PM
August 22, 2004
New technology brings hope to paraplegics
In her The Columbia Missourian article The road to recovery of August 22th, Lene Johansen writes about the AutoAmbulator....Posted by Waldemar at 01:24 PM
August 17, 2004
Why we care so much about health care
In his The Pulse article We care a lot of August 17th, Anders Sandberg applicates evolutionary theory on health care. Why do we care so much about health care? Sandberg reaches some new conclusions....Posted by Waldemar at 01:16 PM
A new start for the EU?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article A Brighter Commission of August 17th, Waldemar Ingdahl is pleasantly surprise by the newly nominated commissioners....Posted by Waldemar at 01:10 PM
August 13, 2004
Eudoxa in India
Eudoxa's statement about WHO and HIV medicines of August 13th gets attention in the The Hindu Business Line in Mumbai on August 13th...Posted by Waldemar at 12:28 PM
WHO director and senior leadership must step down after recent drug scandal
Changes are needed at the WHO after HIV-debacle Last week’s decision by the World Health Organization to remove three Indian-made generic AIDS drugs from list of approved medicines underscores the need for new and responsible leadership at the helm of...Posted by Waldemar at 12:22 PM
August 09, 2004
The future of humanity at Toronto University
On August 7th the conference TransVision 2004 was held at The University of Toronto, Canada. Organizers were The World Transhumanist Association and The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. Anders Sandberg was invited as one of the speakers, and held...Posted by Waldemar at 12:57 PM
August 04, 2004
A better solution
In his The Pulse article Dealing with the obesity and diabetes epidemics of August 4th, Anders Sandberg critizes the solutions proposed to the issues of obesity and diabetes. He also presents some alternative solutions....Posted by Waldemar at 12:50 PM
July 29, 2004
Higher prices or medical progess?
In his The Pulse article Cheap Drugs vs. Good Drugs of July 29th, Anders Sandberg points our that rising costs for medicines do not mainly depend on that prices are getting higher, but on the fact that we can now...Posted by Waldemar at 10:27 AM
July 21, 2004
Regulating biotechnology
In her TCS Daily Europe article Biotechnology and the State of July 21st, Lene Johansen writes about case of 6-years old Norwegian boy Mehmet Yildiz, and why it is important that individuals have the right to make their own decisions...Posted by Waldemar at 10:19 AM
July 16, 2004
Eudoxa supports the FAO
In May the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report about genetically modified plants and their role in fighting world hunger. This report has come under fierce criticism. We at the Eudoxa think tank fail to see why the...Posted by Waldemar at 09:57 AM
Neurocognitive enhancement
In his The Pulse article Getting Drugs and Debates Right of July 16th, Anders Sandberg writes about a debate that has not started yet in Europe. The debate about enhancing medicine....Posted by Waldemar at 09:51 AM
July 07, 2004
A bright future for new vaccines, or...
In his The Pulse article The paradoxical new era of vaccines of July 7th, Anders Sandberg discusses public scepticism of vaccines....Posted by Waldemar at 09:40 AM
The grass is always greener...
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Search and Create of July 7th, Waldemar Ingdahl wonders where the Sweden Richard Florida is talking about actually is located?...Posted by Waldemar at 01:26 AM
July 01, 2004
Sweden vs. Switzerland
Waldemar Ingdahl and Alexander Sanchez from the Eudoxa think tank have written an analysis for the Associazione Società Civile in Lugano, Switzerland: "The Swedish model, an example for Switzerland?". In the report Ingdahl & Sanchez make a comparision between Sweden...Posted by Waldemar at 04:02 PM
The beginning of the neuroethics debate
In his The Pulse article Neuroethics Top Gainer on Ethics Market of July 1st, Anders Sandberg tells about the new buzzword, neuroethics -ethics applied to the new knowledge and choices gained from neuropsychology....Posted by Waldemar at 01:14 AM
June 23, 2004
Cheap medical sensors
In his The Pulse article Screen them all, let the government sort it out of June 23rd, Anders Sandberg discusses the Bush administration's new mental health initiative and the proliferation of cheap medical sensors....Posted by Waldemar at 12:57 AM
June 18, 2004
Disaster for top-ridden Europe opens up for new visions of democracy
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Vox Europa of June 18th, Waldemar Ingdahl thinks that EU parliamentary elections show what's wrong with the proposed EU constitution. Hopefully, this also opens up for new ideas....Posted by Waldemar at 12:52 AM
June 17, 2004
RFID in the euro notes?
By Waldemar Ingdahl This article has previously been published in The Sprout, June 2004 Will radio tags the size of a grain of sand be embed in the euro notes? At least it has been discussed as an option by...Posted by Waldemar at 12:48 AM
June 08, 2004
E-health
In his The Pulse article E-Health for E-urope? of June 8th, Anders Sandberg discusses the European Commission's new plan for integrating IT and health care....Posted by Waldemar at 12:44 AM
June 04, 2004
Health care shot from the hip
In his Tech Central Station Europe article His Hip, Hooray! of June 4th, Waldemar Ingdahl discusses Swedish health care. The Swedish prime minister waits in line like everybody else for medical care, maybe that's the problem....Posted by Waldemar at 12:36 AM
June 01, 2004
Useful bacteria
In his The Pulse article Pro Probiotics of June 1st, Anders Sandberg discusses useful bacteria....Posted by Waldemar at 06:31 PM
Eudoxa Signs New Contract
Eudoxa have signed an agreement with The Centre for the New Europe, a Brussels based think-tank. Our science director, Dr. Anders Sandberg will contribute with a weekly column on healthcare, health and medical technology in their blog The Pulse....Posted by Eudoxa at 04:46 PM
May 30, 2004
Blog about science, technology and society
Lene Johansen has started her new blog, Byline: Lene Johansen, were she will comment on current affairs....Posted by Waldemar at 12:13 AM
May 19, 2004
The real debate has only just begun
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Dead Moratorium of May 19th, Waldemar Ingdahl says that the lifting of EU's moratorium is good news for all friends of progress in Europe -even if the Greens are worked into a frenzy,...Posted by Waldemar at 12:23 AM
May 06, 2004
Patenting life itself
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Patents and Life of May 6th, Waldemar Ingdahl argues that if patents in this area are not allowed, or left ambiguous, much of the research will have difficulties reaching a commercial potential, and...Posted by Waldemar at 12:16 AM
May 04, 2004
New thoughts in popular culture
In Japan there has since long had some of the most interesting depictions on the future. The cartoonist Masamune Shirow has produced one of the more thoughtful and interesting ones in the TV-series "Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex". Anders...Posted by Waldemar at 11:34 PM
April 15, 2004
Seminar on snus in Brussels
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Hit the Snus Button of April 15th, Waldemar Ingdahl writes about issues regarding smokeless tobacco and harm reduction. He also writes about a seminar in Brussels about harm reduction to which Eudoxa's Anders...Posted by Waldemar at 11:07 PM
April 14, 2004
Eudoxa Policy Study #5: Autonomy, Loyalty and Trust in the World of Machines
We are surrounded by machines that are increasingly autonomous, although the autonomy we have managed to create is far from robust or comprehensive. Simple devices such as automatic doors might be broken. In other instances the automation will behave wrong,...Posted by Waldemar at 10:36 PM
April 13, 2004
Tagged identity
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Tagging Along of April 13th, Waldemar Ingdahl explains the new RFID technology. Despite the Big Brother hype, RFID technology has enormous benefits....Posted by Waldemar at 11:00 PM
April 12, 2004
Harmful legal action against Microsoft
We at Eudoxa are worried about the European Commission's law suit against Microsoft, and the effects it can have. Thus we have chosen to sign this open letter to the Commission together with other European think tanks....Posted by Waldemar at 10:51 PM
March 12, 2004
Europe needs to think clearly about Intellectual Property
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Pirates of the European of March 12th, Waldemar Ingdahl admonishes the EU to strike a balance between protecting IP and protecting civil liberties. Unfortunately, this is going to be hard as long as...Posted by Waldemar at 09:51 PM
March 11, 2004
New Law on Intellectual Property is bad for Consumers and Innovation alike
By Marcus Sjöberg The Swedish government recently proposed a new law on intellectual property. There are two main points in the law that should not go unchallenged. It bans software that circumvents copy protection measures and the continuance of the...Posted by Eudoxa at 02:11 PM
March 10, 2004
Eudoxa Policy Study #4: Let's Stand Up and Shout!
The Eudoxa Policy Study "Let's Stand Up and Shout!" is a translation of the fourth chapter of Som egenmäktiga gudar. The book takes a comprehensive look at the Swedish debate on biotechnology and its introduction in society. The study looks...Posted by Waldemar at 09:43 PM
March 01, 2004
Eudoxa's book "Som egenmäktiga gudar" nominated for award
Our book Som egenmäktiga gudar has been nominated to the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award 2004. Read an chapter translated in English in the Eudoxa Policy Study #4: Let's Stand Up and Shout!...Posted by Waldemar at 09:22 PM
February 16, 2004
Obesity- a problem that cannot be solved by the usual means
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Swedish Meatballs? of February 16th, Waldemar Ingdahl acknowledges that we may be getting fat, but why?...Posted by Waldemar at 07:36 PM
February 15, 2004
Eudoxa Policy Study #3: Nanotechnology: Losing the Revolution
Nanotechnology, manufacturing on the molecular and atomic scale is a promising new technology is being attacked before we even know that it is feasible. Opponents of development are misusing the precautionary principle to demand regulations and stifle development. The Canadian...Posted by Waldemar at 05:13 PM
February 07, 2004
Virginia Postrel spoke at Eudoxa dinner reception
By Lene Johansen Virginia Postrel spoke on February 7th at a Eudoxa dinner reception in Kansas City. She held a speech about her new book The Substance of Style: how the rise of aesthetic value is remaking commerce, culture and...Posted by Waldemar at 07:49 PM
February 01, 2004
The Nanotechnology Coup
By Anders Sandberg K. Eric Drexler coined the word nanotechnology in the mid 80's as he was considering the possibilities of molecular manufacturing. The idea that technology would eventually be miniaturized to molecular and atomic level was older (Nobel laureate...Posted by Waldemar at 07:14 PM
January 27, 2004
Is nanotechnology already under siege?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Nitpicking Nanotechnology of January 27th, Waldemar Ingdahl tells of how to get regulators worried about something new....Posted by Waldemar at 06:57 PM
January 15, 2004
Nanoparticles- a new threat?
Eudoxa has lately held a dialogue with the Canadian Frontier Center for Public Policy about nanotechnology and its impact on the environment. Anders Sandberg has together with the FCPP written the article Give Nanotechnology a Chance....Posted by Waldemar at 06:44 PM
January 08, 2004
Witnessing the birth of the European nano-effort?
By Waldemar Ingdahl This article has previously been published in The Sprout, January 2004 Opponents to nanotechnology only care about policy. But if eurocrats and techies could engage in a policy discussion, guided by a vision which expands beyond funding...Posted by Waldemar at 06:50 PM
EU and e-trade
In his Tech Central Station Europe article EU Roadblocks on the Digital Highway of January 8th, Waldemar Ingdahl criticizes ENISA and states that contradictory regulations do not build strong markets....Posted by Waldemar at 06:39 PM
January 03, 2004
Blog about science, technology and society
Our science director Anders Sandberg has started his new blog, Andart were he will comment on current affairs....Posted by Waldemar at 11:51 PM
December 23, 2003
Unnecessary spam legislation
On December 23rd Waldemar Ingdahl and Nicklas Lundblad, managing director of Stockholm's e-chamber of commerce, had an article published in The Scotsman: Why legislation on spam is not only unnecessary but dangerous....Posted by Waldemar at 06:00 PM
It is easier to delete spam than faulty legislation
Waldemar Ingdahl and Nicklas Lundblad, managing director of Stockholm's e-chamber of commerce, wrote the article "Spam is not a problem" in the Wall Street Journal Europe on December 22nd. The battle against spam - unsolicited commercial e-mail - is all...Posted by Waldemar at 05:58 PM
December 13, 2003
Intellectual property
Between December 10th and 12th the United Nations organized the conference "World Summit on the Information Society" in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference discussed issues regarding globalization and informational society. Among the issues covered were Intellectual Property and Open Source Software....Posted by Waldemar at 06:11 PM
The Future of European Nanotechnology
Between December 9th and 12th the conference EuroNanoForum 2003 was held in Trieste, Italy and gathered more than a 1000 participants from the scientific community, EU policy makers and private industry. One of the main organizers was the EU Commission....Posted by Waldemar at 06:02 PM
December 09, 2003
The animal rights movement on the muddy fields of agronomy
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Down on the Farm of December 9th, Waldemar Ingdahl thinks that animal rights activists may love organic agriculture, but chickens hate it....Posted by Waldemar at 05:33 PM
November 29, 2003
Eudoxa at Resource Bank Europe meeting
The Eudoxa think tank sent a delegation to the first Resource Bank Europe meeting in Gummersbach, Germany. At the meeting organised by the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, 14 European think tanks and institutes convened to discuss cooperation and future developments....Posted by Waldemar at 10:08 AM
November 07, 2003
Spam and our valuable attention
In his Tech Central Station Europe article The Attention Economy Meets Spam of November 7th, Waldemar Ingdahl argues once we truly start to think about how we value our attention and our own responsibility for it we will develop solutions...Posted by Waldemar at 05:03 PM
November 01, 2003
Eudoxa Policy Study #2: On Idea Futures - Making Politicians Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
The study explores the ideas behind DARPA's controversial Policy Analysis Market research project by comparing it to more traditional futures markets. An idea futures market is supposed to provide policy makers with more robust and complex information based on...Posted by Anders at 08:38 AM
October 30, 2003
The health care of the future
The Eudoxa think tank was invited to the conference "Markets and solidarity-building the European healthcare of tomorrow" organized by The Stockholm Network, the Institute for Public Policy Research and Timbro Health. The conference was held in Stockholm on October 29th....Posted by Waldemar at 04:34 PM
October 28, 2003
REACH and its effects on Europe
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Swedish Chemistry Lessons of October 28th, Waldemar Ingdahl wonders if we are seeing the decline of the precautionary principle?...Posted by Waldemar at 04:53 PM
Eudoxa Policy Study #1: Morphologic Freedom
The current technological and medical development is increasing individuals' ability to change their physique. We do not at present have the cultural, political or ethical conventions to keep up with the speed of this development. The freedom to make decisions...Posted by Anders at 08:24 AM
October 19, 2003
The wrong way to institute a national DNA register
By Alexander Sanchez and Anders Sandberg Translated by Lene Johansen The murder of Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh once again triggered the debate about criminal DNA registers and of creating such a register covering all Swedish citizens. The Swedish track...Posted by Waldemar at 02:05 PM
October 17, 2003
Code of silence
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Should we keep quiet about this? of October 17th, Waldemar Ingdahl tries to understand the nature of harm reduction....Posted by Waldemar at 04:49 PM
October 01, 2003
Politically incorrect pills
By Lene Johansen The British Medical Journal posted an article this last winter where the BMJ attacked scientists doing research on female sexual dysfunction and the pharmaceutical companies that fund them. The arguments are based on outdated politics and outdated...Posted by Waldemar at 04:45 PM
September 11, 2003
Rotten referendum
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Euro Nightmare of September 11th, Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the murder of Anna Lindh and the Swedish euro referendum....Posted by Waldemar at 04:10 PM
August 25, 2003
Russia and Kyoto
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Emissions Impossible of August 25th, Waldemar Ingdahl explains why Russia won't sign Kyoto but also why they are doing it for the wrong reasons....Posted by Waldemar at 01:18 PM
August 19, 2003
The precautionary principle and wind power
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Tilting at Windmills of August 19th, Waldemar Ingdahl applies the precautionary principle to wind power....Posted by Waldemar at 01:14 PM
August 18, 2003
Backyard Politics
Anders Sandberg's article The Yard was mentioned on August 18th in Reason Magazine's Hit and Run section....Posted by Waldemar at 01:10 PM
August 14, 2003
The Yard
By Anders Sandberg Translation by Lene Johansen My yard has been turned into a labyrinth. It is hard to move around in, it is limiting and just a bit of a threat - but this is of course with the...Posted by Waldemar at 01:07 PM
August 10, 2003
Knut Wicksell and the dilemma of tax harmonization in a globalized world
A speech held by Waldemar Ingdahl at the Danish Markedscentret think tank's "Conference on Tax Harmonization, financial privacy, and other attacks on our liberty" in Copenhagen, August 9th 2003. Waldemar Ingdahl also participated in a panel discussion with Daniel J....Posted by Waldemar at 12:29 PM
July 31, 2003
Is interaction between science and art possible?
In his Tech Central Station Europe article A Renaissance Revival of July 31th, Waldemar Ingdahl critizes the old ideas of technocracy and scientism that are still among us, and instead looks to the Renaissance for inspiration....Posted by Waldemar at 12:12 PM
July 30, 2003
Is Utopia attainable and desirable?
Between July 22nd and 29th a conference for scholars from the Balkans and Scandinavia about the significance of Utopias in history and our present culture. The conference was organized by the university of Novi Sad in Serbia/Montenegro and the organization...Posted by Waldemar at 12:04 PM
July 11, 2003
The progress of neuroscience
In his Tech Central Station Europe article The Decade of the Mind of July 11th, Waldemar Ingdahl tells how medical technology can replace the therapeutic state....Posted by Waldemar at 12:00 PM
July 01, 2003
One problem with emission trading
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Punishing the Good for Being Good of July 1st, Waldemar Ingdahl warns about the consequences of the European Emission Trading Directive for CO2-effective nations such as Sweden....Posted by Waldemar at 11:53 AM
June 29, 2003
The future of humanity at Yale University
On June 28th the conference The adaptable human body: transhumanism and bioethics in the 21st century was held at Yale University in New Haven. Organizers were The World Transhumanist Association and The Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program. Anders Sandberg was invited...Posted by Waldemar at 11:31 AM
June 24, 2003
Kyoto's costs to European businesses are rising
The Kyoto agreement is becoming a significant burden for the EU. Waldemar Ingdahl writes the article Kyoto's costs to European businesses are rising in the Wall Street Journal Europe of June 23rd, on the emission trading directive. Elements of central...Posted by Waldemar at 11:28 AM
June 01, 2003
How should we use biotechnology?
By Anders Sandberg. Translated by Lene Johansen In a Dutch fairytale a little boy saved the day by stopping the leak in the dam with his finger. This is the way we have viewed new breakthroughs in biotechnology. It is...Posted by Waldemar at 11:01 AM
Said about Eudoxa
Dr. Tim Evans, director of the Centre for the New Europe said about Eudoxa: The Eudoxa think tank is, to my knowledge, the only European think tank specializing on the exciting new area of emerging technologies and societal policy...Posted by Waldemar at 10:49 AM
May 19, 2003
F.A. Hayek and the European Emission Trading Directive
A speech given by Waldemar Ingdahl at the Tech Central Station Europe and International Council for Capital Formation seminar "Can we reduce greenhouse gases without reducing EU competitiveness?" in Brussels May 19th 2003. Other speakers at the event were TCS...Posted by Waldemar at 10:25 AM
May 14, 2003
Seminar of hope
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Coalition of the Tilling of May 14th, Waldemar Ingdahl tells about a new hope through genetics, sound politics and free markets for the world's poor was discussed at Eudoxa's seminar in Stockholm...Posted by Waldemar at 10:20 AM
April 23, 2003
Valfrid Paulsson and the recycling debate
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Sweden's Skeptical Environmentalist of April 23rd, Waldemar Ingdahl tells about how Valfrid Paulsson and a gang of heretics started a spark of controversy in Sweden....Posted by Waldemar at 09:46 AM
March 25, 2003
The future of warfare
In his Tech Central Station Europe article E-bombs, Pros 'n Cons of March 25th, Waldemar Ingdahl explains how electromagnetic pulse weapons work and the rise of asymmetric warfare....Posted by Waldemar at 04:09 AM
February 13, 2003
The case of the mad potato crisp disease
In his Tech Central Station Europe article To Fear and To Fund of February 13th, Waldemar Ingdahl tells the story of the making of a food scare....Posted by Waldemar at 04:00 AM
February 07, 2003
Two years on: what to do and what not to do
A speech held by Waldemar Ingdahl, at The Stockholm Network's "Know how" seminar in Brussels on February 7th. Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a pleasure for me to introduce the Eudoxa think tank, and I would like to thank The...Posted by Waldemar at 03:57 AM
January 23, 2003
Cloning calls for new approaches in bioethics
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Threats or Opportunities? of January 23th, Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the new directions in bioethics that have appeared in the advent of human cloning....Posted by Waldemar at 03:37 AM
January 03, 2003
Eudoxa signs contract
The Eudoxa think tank has signed a contract with Tech Central Station Europe. Waldemar Ingdahl will provide TCS with regular articles and comments on ethics, technology and European society....Posted by Waldemar at 03:32 AM
December 20, 2002
Harm reduction
Lene Johansen's and Joseph L. Bast's article about smokeless tobacco and the harm reduction strategy was published in The Cambridge Star newspaper (Cambridge, MN) on December 20th....Posted by Waldemar at 03:11 AM
December 18, 2002
Smokeless tobacco
Lene Johansen's and Joseph L. Bast's article about smokeless tobacco and the harm reduction strategy was published in The Exponent newspaper (East Grand Forks, MN) on December 18th....Posted by Waldemar at 03:09 AM
November 15, 2002
Harm reduction is a good strategy
In his Tech Central Station Europe article A Less Harmful Way? of November 15th, Waldemar Ingdahl argues for a harm reduction strategy based on smokeless tobacco...Posted by Waldemar at 01:56 PM
October 16, 2002
Tobacco issues in Europe and the US
On October 16th Lene Johansen wrote the article An international perspective on smoking together with Joseph L. Bast from the American think tank The Heartland Institute....Posted by Waldemar at 02:34 AM
September 18, 2002
Values for biotechnology
In his Tech Central Station Europe article Scientific values of September 18th, Waldemar Ingdahl argues that a good ethical debate will bring good biotechnology....Posted by Waldemar at 01:45 AM
June 21, 2001
Report on conference
The conference The shape of things to come, where Anders Sandberg was one of the invited speakers, was commented by Reason magazine's science editor Ronald Bailey in his article Live from Extro-5 on June 20th...Posted by Waldemar at 11:39 PM
June 18, 2001
Friendly Artificial Intelligence
Anders Sandberg was invited as a speaker to the Extropy Institute's conference "Shape of things to come" in San José, California, between June 15th and 17th. Anders Sandberg gave an introduction to the issue of how artificial intelligence could be...Posted by Waldemar at 11:30 PM