Have We Lost the War on Obesity?

Have we lost the war on obesity?

The war on cancer: have we won the battle but lost the war?

In 1971 president Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer and announced his goal to cure cancer by 1976, the bicentennial year. Thirty nine years and more than 100 billion dollars later, the cumulative adult death rate from cancer adjusted for the size and age of the population has improved by less than 5% [1]. In comparison, the death rate for heart disease over this time period has improved by...

Genomic anonymity: have we already lost it?

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Environmental assessment & rating – have we lost the plot ?

This paper asks whether after 20years of development, the new discipline of environmental impact assessment and rating has lost its way. The paper shows examples of problems in building environmental rating systems, and corrupted science in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecolabelling and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). Comparisons are drawn with carbon accounting and the problems this w...

Where is the Wisdom We Have Lost in Technology?

Wisdom has been at the heart of practical, philosophical, and theological interest since antiquity but is now attracting interdisciplinary scientific interest from academic researchers in diverse disciplines. Practical wisdom is important from the IS perspective because we have built information tools and technologies that can harm or benefit us in various ways and it is important that we under...