The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Inhibited scientific investigation

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Obstructed scientific investigation

Unnecessary research taboos

Unjustified constraints on technological development

Incidence

There are increasing retreats from following up on scientific and technological breakthroughs. Cost factors have discouraged further space exploration, notably of the moon. Bovine growth hormones have been banned in certain locations because they would boost milk yields and hence increase the cost of subsidies. Few can benefit from the latest surgical techniques. Technical factors may impede certain investigations. Ethical factors may hinder others as in the case of the use of vivisection and use of foetal tissue in medical research. Environmental factors have impeded the development of technological "fixes" to existing problems on the basis that such solutions may engender problems worse than those they are designed to solve.

Broader

Obstruction of research

Narrower

Inhibited field work

Unexplained phenomena

Resistance to medical experimentation

Structurally blocked scientific co-operation

Environmental hazards constraining scientific research

Aggravates

Insoluble scientific problems

Irrelevant scientific activity ^{[in 16 loops]}

Aggravated by

Anti-science

Inhumane scientific activity

Politicization of scholarship

Dogmatic scientific orthodoxy

Unjustly persecuted scientists

Strategy(ies)

Developing technologies

Setting context for scientific study

Obstructing scientific investigation

Restricting technology research and development

Having research taboos

Eliminating unnecessary research taboos

Stimulating scientific investigation

Limiting

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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