Bill Gates’ vaccination TedTalk was not ‘cleaned up’ – Australian Associated Press

AAP FACT CHECK – A video of Bill Gates promoting vaccines as a way to curb global population growth by improving healthcare has not been “completely removed from the internet,” despite claims on social media.

The false claim has spread widely on social media in recent years, including Instagram post which says, “I FINALLY FOUND A VIDEO OF BILL GATES ADMITING THIS.”

“This clip has been completely removed from the internet, even the original TED talk. Save.”

The post includes an excerpt taken from TedTalk 2010 Bill Gates, where he discusses reducing carbon emissions.

The original TedTalk video shows Mr. Gates saying (four minutes and 36 seconds) that part of achieving net zero involves reducing global population growth, which he says will increase from 6.8 billion to about nine billion people.

“Now, if we do a good job on new vaccines, health care and reproductive health services, we can reduce that figure by maybe 10 or 15 percent,” Mr. Gates says, referring to slower population growth in the future rather than reduction of the current population.

But the Instagram video replays that TedTalk section and then shows a man claiming that Mr Gates’ comments show he intends to kill people through vaccination.

“Well, common sense tells you that if a person stands in front of you and says he’s going to reduce the world’s population by 10 or 15 percent with vaccines, what does that mean to you?” states the man.

“That means someone is going to die because you gave them the vaccine. It doesn’t mean you’re going to save people.”

Despite the message’s claim, Mr. Gates’ TedTalk is readily available on both TedTalk website And YouTubewhere it has millions of views.

The Instagram video was taken from a widely discredited 2022 anti-vaccine documentary called “Died Suddenly.”

The documentary includes many false claims that have previously been debunked Scientific feedback, Associated Press, ABC, BBC, AFP, PolitiFact And FactCheck.org.

Since his speech in 2010, Gates has repeatedly made clear that he believes global population growth can be slowed by reducing death rates through vaccination campaigns.

This is because parents are more likely to have fewer children if they know their children are more likely to survive into adulthood, Mr Gates argues.

IN Forbes interview, 2011 he explained that the Gates Foundation initially focused on promoting birth control in poorer countries to help alleviate extreme poverty exacerbated by rapid population growth.

However, he later discovered that in many countries, birth rates tend to decline as death rates decline.

Mr Gates said this had led him to focus on funding vaccination campaigns rather than contraception to reduce death rates and improve living standards in developing countries.

He made similar comments in YouTube video 2018and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised billions of dollars to childhood vaccination programs in the world’s poorest countries.

IN 2022 interviewGates called attention to the fact that his comments about population growth in a 2010 TedTalk were taken out of context and used in conspiracy theories that he allegedly had nefarious global plans.

He reiterated that his comments were based on what he considered the “counterintuitive” concept that very poor countries with high infant mortality rates have the highest rates of population growth, while healthier societies have lower rates of population growth.

“And what’s amazing is when you introduce vaccines or improve nutrition—anything to improve your health—parents decide to have fewer children,” Mr. Gates said.

In 2020 AAP Fact Check refuted a similar statement stems from Mr Gates’ 2010 TedTalk and has also been debunked Pointer And FactCheck.org.

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