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“There has definitely been a growing number of people who question widely accepted scientific evidence,” says VCP Director Heidi Larson. “We’ve always had dissenters, but it’s been very much more on the fringe,” she says.
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Commission on rethinking misinformation, health, and human security will be convene transdisciplinary experts from to rethink a systems approach to these threats.
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