[advrs]

I am very open to critiquing Bill Gates (and other personally wealthy folks disregarding experts in a messianical manner), but isn't this kind of what he spends all of his time on now (malaria, ebola, etc.)? From the article itself, he links to a TED talk he gave about epidemics in 2015, as well as a paper he had published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

[giantg2]

It has been a hobby of his for some time. Although he hasn't credentialed that knowledge. It doesn't mean his opinion is moot, just that people should examine his points through research of their own and not just appeal to his 'authority'.