Is Bill Gates Right? Should We Kill 90% Of The Human Population?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Scataphagos, Jul 12, 2021.

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  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Fact check: No evidence Bill Gates said ‘at least 3 billion people need to die’
    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...st-3-billion-people-need-to-die-idUSKBN29Y20D

    A video viewed thousands of times on social media attributes to Bill Gates a quote about “sterilization and population control”. The clip shows a man saying: “In the words of Bill Gates, at least 3 billion people need to die”. Reuters found no evidence Gates ever made such a statement.

    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation confirmed to Reuters via email that this claim is false.

    An iteration posted to Instagram on Jan. 25 ( here ) was viewed over half a million times three days later. The clip was also shared on TikTok ( vm.tiktok.com/ZMJoRcss3/ ), Facebook ( here ) and YouTube ( here ).

    The viral clip does not feature Bill Gates, but a man identified as “Dr. Robert O. Young” who is allegedly quoting Gates during a panel entitled “International Tribunal for Natural Justice”, a group that has spread conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic, news reports say ( here , here ).

    The more than 90-minute video was posted on YouTube ( youtu.be/gKjnEz5s37o?t=5584 ) on Nov. 20, 2019.

    In the clip circulating on social media, Young says: "For the purpose of sterilization and population control, there’s too many people on the planet we need to get rid of. In the words of Bill Gates, at least three billion people need to die” (audible around 1:33:03, youtu.be/gKjnEz5s37o?t=5583 ).

    Young, a promoter of the “alkaline diet” to cure diseases (a theory discredited by experts and explained here ), was convicted in 2016 for practising medicine without a licence and spent several months in jail ( here , here ).

    Reuters found no evidence that Gates ever made this or any similar statement. A Google search of the claim brought up fact check articles debunking this allegation and articles addressing how Gates has been a target of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The alleged quote appears to be a misrepresentation of a statement Gates gave at a TED conference in 2010 ( here ), which has been repeatedly taken out of context (see for example here , here ). As part of a talk on reducing CO2 emissions to zero, he said: “First, we've got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3.”

    As previously explained by Reuters here , in his speech he was not suggesting the global population should be killed by use of vaccines.

    Gates has long been a proponent of slowing unsustainable population growth ( here ) by targeting the root causes of poverty and unrest, and told Forbes magazine in 2011 that when he first entered public health, it was to focus on contraception ( here ). When he later saw data suggesting that when mortality rates fall, so, too, do birth rates, Gates shifted his focus from contraception to saving people already alive. He told Forbes: “We moved pretty heavily into vaccines once we understood that.”

    Some iterations ( here , here around timestamp 4:33), also show Young referring to a fabricated quote attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about “mandatory vaccination”. Reuters previously debunked this here .

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates has been a constant target of disinformation ( here , here ). In an interview with Reuters this month here , he said he was taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the pandemic and would like to explore what is behind them.

    VERDICT
    False. There is no evidence Bill Gates said “at least 3 billion people need to die”. The statement appears to be a misrepresentation of his view on slowing population growth through improving access to healthcare, including vaccination and contraception.

    This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .
     
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    LOOKS like he is right . Bill Gates [MSFT] told the United Kingdom Daily Mail.com ''Keep calm + so far the data suggests a [kill rate] of 1%'' 2015 + 2021 dated article. IF he's off by 90%-100%+ kill rate is 2% , good guess............................................................................ Knock Knock joke ??Like US TX Rep told FOX news,[JULY 4th month] none of gov's business who is vaccinated .Good boundaries/\border comment from the US/TX Gov:D:D:D:D:D:D,:caution::caution:
     
  4. Overnight

    Overnight

  5. You confusing Thanos with Bill Gates?
     
  6. gaussian

    gaussian

    Fact check by elite organization about an elite member of society.

    Yes very trustworthy. "Fact check" is almost universally used by spin doctors to "correct the narrative". It's weird how they never fact check themselves.
     
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    So where is your video of Bill Gates stating that we need to be "killing off 75-80% of the population". Doesn't exist.

    Produce the video of Bill Gates stating this (as claimed by all the fabrications on the Internet) or your nonsense is false.
     
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  8. gaussian

    gaussian

    "produce the video lmao" you retard.

    This refers back to his Ted talk on climate change and how there are only a few strategies, one of which is depopulation. The infowarriors extrapolated this to vaccines.

    Weird that you don't know about his Ted talk but unsurprising considering you link fact checks and let paid corporations do your thinking for you. Real "free thinker" you are, champ.
     
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Once again -- watch the TED talk.... that is not what he said. In fact it is a grossly absurd interpretation of his comments.
     
  10. Consider this as an early warning. You have been warned.

    This coming 'October-December', the situation will get worse. More people will die, from the virus and also from riots/civil war.

    The good news is, mid next year everything will be gone, the virus will be gone.

    The bad news is, 70% of the population will be wiped.
     
    #10     Jul 15, 2021