Pursuing the idea that science is a worldwide beneficial endeavor

Numerous environmental catastrophes, growing social inequality and polarization, international armed conflict, disruptive technology, and fragile health and welfare are just a few of the significant socioeconomic issues facing the world today. These problems have intricate and unpredictable relationships with one another. Additionally, they impact and mirror issues in science systems around the globe, such as scientific inequality, pressures on scientific freedom, responsibility, and integrity, conflicts between various value and knowledge systems, politicization of science, and waning faith in science as an institution—all of which hinder science’s ability to provide society with the best and most essential contribution.