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On 21 January 2016, dubious news and conspiracy theory site Your News Wire (now NewsPunch) published an article with the headline Bill Gates Admits ‘Vaccines Are Best Way to Depopulate’. The article opened with a damning assertion: Bill Gates has openly admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world. To support this claim, the site presented a February 2011 video clip of Bill Gates being interviewed by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta about his foundation’s vaccination efforts: To make sure the point was not lost on the reader, Your News Wire repeated the reduce population growth emphasized above numerous times at a variety of different playback speeds, as if to suggest this were a slip of the tongue revealing some nefarious secret. This narrative was reinforced with another video that opens with this text The damming moment, according to Your News Wire was the following statement from Gates: First, we've got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent ... The suggestion, hinted at by both of these clips and argued later in the article, was that Gates knows vaccines are dangerous — and he is using this information to kill children in the developing world to stem population growth. In reality, however, Gates' statements regarding vaccines and population growth were neither an accidental slip nor a nefarious admission of plans for a new world order. As discussed in a 21 November 2011 Forbes cover story profiling the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, reducing population growth has always been integral to their stated mission of improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty: As further discussed in this piece, Gates later came to the conclusion that birth control was not the best approach to achieve the goal of slower population growth, instead realizing that — counterintuitively — a reduction in childhood mortality was the best way to limit population growth: This is a point Gates has made repeatedly, and his views were clearly articulated in the 2009 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Annual Letter: In other words, Gates is not interested in using vaccines to reduce the population by using them as an agent of death or a tool to sterilize unsuspecting masses. Rather, Gates is interested in keeping more children alive in order to reduce the need for parents to have more children, thus limiting the overall population growth rate. As evidenced in a 2014 paper published in Science that attempted to calculate future population growth, not everyone is convinced childhood mortality is the smoking gun to quell population growth: But Gates' view on childhood mortality contribution to population growth is increasingly discussed in the scientific literature and is still subject to debate. What is not up to debate are the intentions of the Bill and Melinda Gate’s Foundation with regard to vaccines and population growth, as articulated by Bill and Melinda Gates in their Foundation’s 2017 Annual Letter: This is obviously a far cry from, as Your News Wire.com put it, having Bill Gates tell us how we must all consent to a 'kill the humans' strategy, to 'save the planet' from the carbon dioxide we make.
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