Is it true that Bill Gates wants to reduce the world's population with vaccines?

The creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is often credited with making a misanthropic statement: allegedly, with the help of vaccines, the use of which is promoted by the charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he wants to reduce the world's population. We decided to check whether Bill Gates actually said this.

Here's what it's like in 2010 wrote about Gates' vaccines, a LiveJournal user with the nickname emdrone, who translated article about them by conspiracy theorist William Engdahl in Russian:

“At a recent conference in California, Gates lifted the lid on a largely unknown aspect of his philanthropy: population reduction, or in other words, eugenics.

Gates mentioned this at a private conference in Long Beach, California called the TED2010 Conference in his speech "Renewing to Zero!" Along with the scientifically absurd proposal to artificially reduce CO2 emissions₂ worldwide to zero by 2050, about four and a half minutes into his speech, Gates states: "First we got the population. There are 6.8 billion people in the world today. That number will rise to about 9 billion. Now if we really do a great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we will reduce it by maybe 10 or 15%."

In plain English, one of the world's most powerful men said clearly that he expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth.

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Today it looks like a noble charity work. The problem is that the vaccine industry has repeatedly been caught covering up the dangerous consequences (lack of safety due to untested or even proven harmful to health) of vaccines to unsuspecting Third World populations when they can't get rid of Western vaccines. Some organizations believe that the true purpose of vaccination is to weaken people and make them even more susceptible to disease and premature death."

With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, theories that Gates is going to reduce and control the population with the help of vaccines have taken on new colors. Gates attributed to the creation of the coronavirus, the desire to chip people with the help of vaccines and, of course, reduce the population - with the help of the same vaccines.

Accusations against Bill Gates that he deliberately wants to reduce the world's population appeared in 2010, but not after the conference that user emdrone talks about, but earlier. In 2010, a former employee of a medical project in Ghana, partially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stated: The foundation allegedly tested the contraceptive Depo-Provera on unsuspecting villagers in the Navrongo region. According to the woman, this was all part of a terrible “experiment in population reduction.”

Mame-Yaa Bosumtwi was born in Ghana and educated in the United States, and later worked on another project, partly sponsored by Gates and Columbia University, to use telephones to improve access to health care among rural residents. Before Gates' accusations, she tried to sue her employer, because after constant conflicts with the manager, her contract was not renewed.

The lawsuit failed, but local tabloids trumpeted the scandal. A national scandal has broken out in Ghana. And although the medical authorities in Ghana stated that there were no drug trials in the region, the story came out on English-language forums and around Gates started a myth arises: allegedly, under the pretext of charity, he is testing biological weapons on poor women in order to reduce the birth rate in Africa.

So when Bill Gates spoke at TED2010 admitted a careless statement, it was taken as an admission that the philanthropist also plans to reduce the population with the help of vaccines. Here's what Gates said:

“Today there are 6.8 billion people in the world, and this figure will grow to approximately 9 billion. Given major successes in the creation of new vaccines, in healthcare, in the field of reproductive health, growth may decrease by 10-15%, but this is still an increase of approximately 1.3 billion.”

Taken out of context, the phrase really does sound scary. But in fact, this is not about eugenics or the extermination of people.

The fact is that the distribution of vaccines and access to healthcare are reducing the child mortality rate, which is still high in developing countries. And this, Bill and Melinda Gates are sure, should automatically lead to a decrease in the birth rate - parents will want to provide their children with a decent standard of living and will themselves begin to have fewer children.

It is believed that one of the components of the transition from traditional society to industrial (and post-industrial) is the so-called demographic transition. concept proposed in 1945 by the American demographer Frank Notestein: according to the theory, this is a transition from one balance between fertility and mortality to another, in which, due to an increase in the quality and duration of human life, population growth also significantly decreases.

In an article dedicated to the history of Bill and Melinda Gates and published in Forbes in 2011, philanthropists spoke in detail about what they mean by reducing population growth and why it is needed. The Gateses admitted that reducing this growth has always been part of their missions, as it is directly related to “improving people’s health and the chance to live a decent life without hunger and poverty.”

When the Gateses became involved in health care in 1997, it says in the article, it became clear to them that very often there are simply not enough health care resources for the entire huge population. Therefore, from their point of view, the path to good health care lies in reducing population growth. But not with the help of killer vaccines, as conspiracy theorists believe, but with the help of first spreading education and access to contraception, and later reducing child mortality.

As a result, Gates came to the conclusion that reducing infant mortality was the most effective way to reduce population growth. Quoting the Forbes article:

“In country after country, he saw that when the infant mortality rate fell, or more precisely, when it fell below 10 deaths per 1,000, the birth rate fell along with it and population growth stabilized. "It's ironic," Gates says. It turns out that most parents choose to have eight children not because they want large families, but because they know that many of their children will die.

“If a mother and father know that their child will grow to adulthood, they will naturally begin to reduce the population themselves,” Melinda adds.”

In other words, the point is to use vaccines to reduce child mortality, and with it, population growth. Although not everyone in science agrees with this point of view: for example, part of the scientific community believesthat reducing population growth is much more influenced by increased access to contraception and the spread of higher education among women. But science is still serious about reducing child mortality include. There is still an ongoing academic debate about whether it can stabilize population growth or not.

One way or another, the original statement that Bill Gates wants to reduce the current population with vaccines is incorrect.

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What do our verdicts mean?

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