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Fighting misinformation in science

Broader:
Clarifying science
Fighting public misinformation
Rebuilding trust in science
Narrower:
Ensuring accurate scientific content in media
Issuing social science information
Facilitates:
Ending environmental secrecy
Facilitated by:
Requiring authentic application of science
Problems:
Biased and inaccurate biology textbooks
Biased and inaccurate biology textbooks
Biased and inaccurate biology textbooks
Biased and inaccurate biology textbooks
Insecurity from future crop uncertainty
Irrational rejection of nuclear power
Misuse of evolutionary theories
Uncertainty over long-term health effects of radioactive fallout
Values:
Fight
Information
Disinformation
Misinformation
Organizations:
Union of Concerned Scientists
Subjects:
Information → Information
Defence → Conflict
Science → Science
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies

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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