Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'

February 5, 2011

ugh:

Bill Gates: Over this decade, we believe unbelievable progress can be made, in

both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who

need them. We could cut the number of children who die every year from about 9

million to half of that, if we have success on it. We have to do three things in

parallel: Eradicate the few that fit that profile -- ringworm and polio; get the

coverage up for the vaccines we have; and then invent the vaccines -- and we

only need about six or seven more -- and then you would have all the tools to

reduce childhood death, reduce population growth, and everything -- the

stability, the environment -- benefits from that.

Gates: Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutely fraudulent

data. He had a financial interest in some lawsuits, he created a fake paper, the

journal allowed it to run. All the other studies were done, showed no connection

whatsoever again and again and again. So it's an absolute lie that has killed

thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't

have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are

dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts --

you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these

vaccines are important.

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