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SBM And The Battle For Information

Part of the reason for forming SBM in the first place is because my colleagues and I perceived that we were engaged partly in a long struggle for control over information—specifically the quality of health information being pushed to the public, including the media and regulators. We did not anticipate how much this battle would change over the last few decades, and […] The post SBM And The…

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