Bill Gates to Parents: Autism-Vaccine Link 'an Absolute Lie'
Bill Gates has strong words for vaccine fears
If you’ve been following Bill Gates news lately, you know he’s on a mission to eradicate polio.
The Gates foundation has given $1.3 billion to the cause and has pledged a total of $10 billion for research and to help provide vaccines to children around the world.
Last Friday, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta sat down with Gates in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum to talk about his agenda, vaccine fears, and the resulting dip in vaccination rates.
Sanjay Gupta said, “What do you make of all that? Dr. [Andrew] Wakefield wrote a paper about this [in The Lancet in 1998] saying he thought there was a connection. And there were lower vaccination rates over a period of time as a result in Britain than the United States. What are your thoughts?”
Gates replied:
“Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutely fraudulent data. He had a financial interest in some lawsuits, he created a fake paper, the journal allowed it to run. All the other studies were done, showed no connection whatsoever again and again and again. So it’s an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids.”
He said specifically that opting out of the pertussis (whooping cough) or measles vaccines has proven deadly for some families.
Of course, his main focus is driving the effort to make vaccinations available to children in the developing world. For that he is a hero to some, while others think his mission to eradicate polio is misguided.
As The New York Times reported last week, since the campaign to stomp out the disease began in 1985, the drop on caseloads is 99 percent. Gates is putting billions of dollars into making that one percent go away — but some think the money could be better spent on other health agendas. For example, the Times cites that the 14-year drive to wipe out smallpox only cost $500 million. Some public health experts say that maybe we have to be okay with “controlling” not “eradicating” polio.
Do you think Gates is putting his money in the right place? And how do you feel about his comments on vaccine fears?
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Gates is 100% right and isn’t saying anything that hard science hasn’t been supporting time and time again before and after Wakefield’s disasterous lies were released. Gates is not saying vaccines are 100% safe, no one ever has. But the real fear should be of pain at the injection site, undiagnosed geletin or egg allergies and the resulting reactions, even benign febrile seizures from a spike in temperature. Or how about the threat of a car crash on the way to the pedi from unnecessarily breaking up your shots to follow “Dr Bob’s” STUPID vaccine schedule, because that is way more likely than an “adverse vaccine event” from following the CDC/AAP schedule. THose are legit fears. Not brain damage, autism, or improbable chain reactions to vaccine preservatives (that are lower than the levels in BREASTMILK, which btw, WON’T PROTECT YOUR KID FROM PERTUSSIS). Herd immunity is meant to protect tiny babies, kids with cancer, the immune compromised. NOT people with misguided parents who are buying into false statistics and outright lies. Their collective choices have resulted in the death of innocent children. It sucks that people like Jenny McCarthy misguided them. but it sucks even more for the families of the kids who have been sick and have died.
He’s a hero to me. And I am very solidly a Mac person. This episode is a very sad reflection of the gullibility of a small part of our society who would believe any old cr*p as long as it has no scientific basis and the despicable egotism of the few that seek to lead them. Jenny, I’m looking at you.
On the other hand, let’s not totally dismiss, as many people do, the children who HAVE actually been injured by reactions to vaccines…which, although rare, are very real. Just a thought. I know more than one family who are on an alternate schedule with subsequent children because of a severe reaction with the first.
He’s lying. Don’t trust that nice and nerdy face.
Sorry Laura, but I buried a kid whose brain was turned to mush from his DTP vaccines. They [adverse reactions] may be rare, but the package insert certainly DOES state that brain damage and death can occur from DTP.
Shame on you Mr. Gates.
I suppose it is easy when one has 3 healthy children, none of whom experienced febrile seizures and encephalitis post multiple vaccines, to pass judge on families like mine.
Was my 6 month old was “lying” or faking his fevers. I suppose he was also “lying” about how his tummy hurt and laying on the tops of tables and chairs as part of his elaborate scheme? I still have no figured out how he faked 5 years of non stop severely debilitating diarrhea- so acidic we had to throw out dozens of pants, rugs and a car seat.
Christian’s immediate post vaccination regression was obviously an elaborate
ruse is “to kill children.” My efforts to support safer vaccine research also = “killing children.”
Thanks a lot Mr. Gates for ignoring the greatest healthcare catastrophe affecting American children in our time and accusing us of murder in the process.
I’m an anti-Mac person. But I really loved his interview on The Daily Show. I love that he’s out there, helping people.
Gates is correct. Dr. Wakefield lied for monetary gain and his lies caused hundreds of thousands of mothers’s to not vaccinate their children, leading to the unnecessary spread of illnesses.
Does that mean that some children aren’t harmed by vaccines? not at all. But the risk is MUCH MUCH smaller than the risk of the illnesses we vaccinate against and quite frankly, autism is not amongst the risk.
As one woman on the DIane Rehm show about this said, when you go back and look at the history, these kids didn’t fall apart because of the vaccine… it either came before or after. Its human memory playing tricks.
I am fairly sure that the context of what Mr. Gates said was in regards to Andrew Wakefield and the vaccination-causes-autism thing, not “vaccine injury of any type does not exist and all those people are liars.” Vaccines do not, in fact, have any link to autism, and Wakefield fabricated results to try to show they do. Those of us who agree with Bill Gates’ summation of this are not in any way trying to diminish the horror that actual vaccine injury causes to families.
“Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Long Beach, California TED2010 Conference, in a speech titled, “Innovating to Zero!.” Along with the scientifically absurd proposition of reducing manmade CO2 emissions worldwide to zero by 2050, approximately four and a half minutes into the talk, Gates declares, “First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
In plain English, one of the most powerful men in the world states clearly that he expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth. When Bill Gates speaks about vaccines, he speaks with authority. In January 2010 at the elite Davos World Economic Forum, Gates announced his foundation would give $10 billion (circa ¤7.5 billion) over the next decade to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world.”
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Gates is a third generation, utterly unrepentant,
Rockefeller linked EUGENIST.
MicroSoft was set up by NSA/DARPA to take the
heat away from IBM after they were revealed to have
been KEY players in NAZI death camp management.
—ON RECORD—
“Understand, even the first computers (1920′s)
were developed by a EUGENIST —for EUGENICS.”
-ENDGAME
(documentary online)
That’s right. Race tracking studies in Jamaica.
IBM —-was there too.
NOW, MicroSoft’s over there —in RED China.
BTW –also the place where nearly ALLLLLL
your shots are manufactured.
I think fighting about it doesn’t solve the fact that one in 47 kids have autism. As for dr. Wakefield I agree with him my son was not born with this horrible disorder. Vaccine companies have lied to. The toxins they put in into them is terrifying. P.s. walefield isn’t the only doctor who believe vaccines cause autism. Instead of giving vaccine companies more money help heal our kids . Solve it before its to late. If I had known what shit they put in vac I never would have let them inject my baby. Fact there not good. Antifreeze fermalin Mercy all kinds of crap. Besides I didn’t realize bill gates was a doc or autism expert. I watched him lie I front of our gov. Nice guy. Crazy idiot.