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by davidj 5651 days ago
I don't trust Bill Gates. He believes that "if we do a really good job, with vaccines and healthcare ... we can reduce the worlds human population by 10 or 15 percent." OK, did you really just say you want to kill 15% of the worlds population with vaccines? 2:17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064
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No he didn't say that. He said reduce the world's population. You can do that by having fewer births. Over time, this will reduce the population. Or you can just put words in his mouth that's cool too. From one of the youtube comments (rarely will I quote a YT comment): "If you reduce infant mortality people have fewer children. Look it up. People overestimate their own risk of losing a kid, and tend to have more children in order to compensate."