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Bill Gates, bogeyman of virus conspiracy theorists

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-20 04:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 From the link:

Gates -- whose eponymous foundation has spent billions of dollars improving healthcare in developing countries over the past 20 years -- has become "a kind of abstract boogeyman", said Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor at New York's Syracuse University, where she teaches digital ethics.

A social science researcher, a professor of digital ethics, and an eponymous blogger log-into a virtual bar....

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-20 11:56|| 2020-05-20 11:56|| Front Page Top

#2 See this.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-20 12:56|| 2020-05-20 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Gates -- whose eponymous foundation has spent billions of dollars improving healthcare in developing countries

Dron66046 talked a bit about how the Gates Foundation has been kept on a very tight leash in India after engaging in unacceptable antics.... So abstract boogeyman is should perhaps be corrected to concrete boogeyman...

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-20 16:19|| 2020-05-20 16:19|| Front Page Top

#4 A number of accusations, including posts claiming that the FBI arrested Gates for biological terrorism or that he supports a Western plot to poison Africans, share a common thread.

Reckless comments such as the one above do not help honest debate. But just because there are some nut cases out there does not mean Gates is a knight in shining armor. Who made him vaccine king anyway?

Posted by Clem 2020-05-20 22:31|| 2020-05-20 22:31|| Front Page Top

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