Forbidden Knowledge
From civicintelligence
Contents
(1) Description of the pattern
This is the industrial strength version of Compartmentalization of Knowledge. This occurs when knowing something is actually denied to a certain group of people under the threat of penalty. One recent example is when the Centers for Disease Control in the US was forbidden by the US Congress to study gun violence as a "public health hazard.' According to Wikipedia, "In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicide deaths, and 11,078 firearm-related homicide deaths in the United States." In early 2013, the US Congress passed a new law that the National Science Foundation could not fund Political Science research.
(2) Why the pattern is good (i.e. bad)
(3) How it works
Photography banned from agricultural settings
Links (to other anti-patterns)
This is strongly linked to Compartmentalization of Knowledge
