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| Hans Rosling |
Hans Rosling
(1948-2017) was a Swedish doctor in medicine, who worked in the Karolinska
Institute and investigated certain rare tropical diseases such as konzo, which proved to be a food
contamination with cyanide. He was one of the founders of the Gapminder Foundation, which
specializes in the analysis and dissemination of little-known data and in carrying
out surveys to discover the degree of popular knowledge about economic,
sociological, and highly topical worldwide issues.
In 2018 appeared his
posthumous book, Factfulness, dedicated
to explaining some of the discoveries of the Gapminder Foundation about the
ignorance of many people on important issues, an ignorance which has spread a
vision of reality very different from that provided by the data.
