Recently I1 was interviewed by Claus Atzenbeck for the SIGWEB Newsletter (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2073244). While it isn’t appropriate to reproduce the while thing – you can read the full interview it in the ACM DL, I was asked the question ‘If you had the choice, would you dis-invent any technological advancement?’ – the answer came as a bit of a shock even to me…
“Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated. If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable.”
“Open Volunteer Exchange is a distributed platform to enable volunteering organisations to Exchange volunteers. It was created by J.P Lacerda, Damo Walsh, and Sam van Lieshout (First Years at The University of Manchester) and mentored by me. The aim of the project is to enable people to quickly organise events requiring a group of volunteers with diverse skills.”
“We are not a company that is in competition with others, instead we are a community of researchers and good scientific research will only enhance our own scientific research and our understanding of the world through our scientific endeavours. Only by acknowledging the results of others searches for meaning, can we enhance our own search for meaning”
