For many years, Secretary General of the World Values Survey, which for 40 years has examined and analyzed people’s values and beliefs. Bi Puranen is an associate professor of economic history and collaborates with the Institute for Future Studies and Karolinska Institutet. Bi Puranen was for a period editor-in-chief of the National Encyclopedia.
– My program is about values, diseases, life perspectives of different cultures and why migrants’ reluctance to get vaccinated in part is a myth. And about n’Samuel Burvall in Burträsk who thought that it was the words that infected when you got sick and not viruses or bacteria.
About Bi Puranen
Researcher, 70 years
Born in Umeå, living in Stockholm and on Ekerö
Former Summer Host 1988 and 2014
Producer: Anders Diamant