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Undertaking dangerous experiments

Synonyms:
Applying dangerous techniques
Broader:
Undertaking
Constrains:
Standardizing methodology of experimental studies
Constrained by:
Regulating experimental physics
Reducing risks in medical self-experimentation
Facilitated by:
Maintaining secrecy over scientific activity
Supporting involvement in experimental initiatives
Problems:
Irresponsible physicists
Irresponsible radiologists
Unethical practice of geological sciences
Unethical practices of engineering
Values:
Dangerous
Subjects:
Action → Application
Societal Problems → Hazards
Research, Standards → Experimental
Technology → Technical
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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