“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”

— Hans Rosling

On the HIV epidemic http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html

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Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public s… 1948–2017

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