Recent Writing and Activities
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 urinary tract infections in children in the UK. Is a medical consensus being pushed in order to save costs?
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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.
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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 at the Technology Liberation Front blog.
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Posted by Waldemar at 12:53 AM
September 12, 2007
Därför finns ingen EU-debatt
Varför finns det ingen debatt kring den Europeiska Unionen? Det sökte Waldemar Ingdahl besvara när han var inbjuden som talare på HumF Stockholms universitet.
Trots att Sverige varit medlem i mer än 12 år är debatten fortfarande trevande, men det delar vi med resten av EU.
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Posted by Waldemar at 09:05 PM
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 cutting costs. Might it mean a bias favouring cheaper drugs for the patients? Is it possible to avoid bias in studies, or even to reduce it considerably?
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Posted by Waldemar at 09:09 AM
September 11, 2007
Facebook är IT-erans fetmaepidemi
Av Anders Sandberg
Den nya tidens fluga är att alla ska nätverka överallt, hela tiden. Det görs enklare av att social mjukvara nu finns tillgänglig. Utvecklingen är spännande och intressant, men ligger samtidigt till grund för informationssamhällets motsvarighet till fetmaepidemin.
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Posted by Waldemar at 02:10 PM
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 substances in the home (with people making costly mistakes) and taking up excessive space on the sidewalk, separation can increasingly be done at the processing plant. But opposition to single stream recycling is considerable? What are differences from multi stream recycling?
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Posted by Waldemar at 10:50 AM