He’s a college dropout whose only experience in global health policy is deciding if the people who come beg him for money should get the money. Sitting through a bunch of powerpoint pitches and writing checks doesn’t make someone a health expert. Actually doing work makes someone an expert. What the hell has Gates ever done but sign a check?
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Ah ha
Just post another picture of his house.
Right you say that because you know he hasn’t done a thing.
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I tried Googling “bill gates contributions to global health policy” and I get about a 50/50 mix of articles saying that he spent $X million billion gajillion dollars on health stuff vs. stories about skeptical global health care experts commenting on the the “but actually” side of things. My guess is that he’s done a bunch of good with some offsetting negative consequences. But I’m just inferring from my own limited knowledge so take that with some grains of salt.
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Not a thing. In fact, he likely knows less about health policy than the average person.
Also, he is a really bad guy.
Got it. Debate over. Let’s move on.
I mean, you’re the Bill Gates expert. What exactly has he worked on? Has he conducted any vaccine research? Has he done any epidemiological research? Ran a state or local health department? What has he personally worked on that makes him such a health genius?
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I don’t dispute that he’s spent a lot of money on health stuff. That doesn’t make someone an expert! He’s probably listened to a lot of experts ask him for money, but no one has ever become an expert listening to experts talk. They become experts by actually doing stuff.
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ITT - a bunch of people who know dick about public health making definitive statements about Gates.
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Lol you are such a troll.
We have been talking about policy, not epidemiology or vaccine research. You, of course, know that cause you’re an idiot but not dumb.
Troll someone else. You are boring.
OK, so what has Gates done in the health policy field that make him an expert? What are his personal accomplishments?
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Nothing. Debate over. You win.
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lol you can’t name a single thing except he signed some checks
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Why do you hate checks so much 
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I don’t! Like, Gates is influential in health policy. But clovis has it backwards, he isn’t influential because he’s an expert, he’s influential because he gives away a bunch of cash in the field. Like, Andrew Carnegie gave a lot of money to build a lot of libraries but that doesn’t make him a fuckin librarian.
Also Carnegie actually gave all his money away, unlike some asshole billionaires I can name.
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Let’s check the tape,
He has run the largest non-government health organization on earth, larger than most countries and the WTO, for close to 25 years
He has published many times in the leading medical literature, like NEJoM.
He has written countless op-eds in every major newspaper.
He has given hundreds of speeches on global health policy, including a 2015 TED talk where he talks all about the coming pandemic.
He is widely known to read 50 books a year and regularly cites health policy books among the list.
He spend all his time around health policy experts doing work only in that field for more than two decades now.
He has given thousands of interviews about health policy.
He has sat on countless health related NGO boards.
As Keed so brilliantly points out he has watched countless PowerPoint presentations from the worlds leading public health scholars.
He has met with and discussed health policy with every major global leader and the leader of every major global health organization.
But he is not a health policy expert.
Got it.
Inb4 someone makes another post about him being a bad guy.
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Giving away a bunch of money doesn’t make someone an expert. And the only reason anyone listens to him or publishes him is because he gives away a bunch of money. He has speechwriters write speeches for him and people write op-eds for him. It’s PR. He’s given an interview? He read a book? He’s written a check? He sat through a presentation? Who gives a fuck. What work has he, himself, actually done?
I mean does Gates himself even say he’s an expert?
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Counterpoint… DJT was president, just because you rise to the top does not make you an expert.
Look, I know that’s a bad example to some, but it’s not when you consider how he got there, the system that allows it to happen & the people around him.
Gates is a skilled American billionaire who’s main aim is to help prop up a corrupt system and is probably doing some good in that system, congrats, but that doesn’t help my kind of people, the kind who can’t afford $5,000 a year or similar expenses.
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The idea that keeed has any sort of ability or knowledge base to make some sort of real argument or call is farcical.
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That’s my inference as well. I’m sure every single non-profit global health initiative can be legitimately criticized in some way. If we looked at everything the WHO did, I’m sure there would be a lot of criticism. But I’m sure people would attribute much different reasons for those alleged failures.
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Are you certain he does this all by himself and they aren’t ghost-written by a team of experts?
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