{"id":349514,"date":"2010-02-22T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/bill-gates-biggest-glitch-39781\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:33:59","slug":"bill-gates-biggest-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349514","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates’ biggest glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bill Gates’ biggest glitch<\/b> <\/p>\n

Here’s a lesson for you computer geeks out there: Stick with your transistors, and stay the heck out of medicine. <\/p>\n

Bill Gates — world’s richest man, even if he’s shed a few billion over the past year — has hatched a bizarre plot to vaccinate millions of Third World children. He’s either got a lot of Big Pharma stock he needs to pump up, or he’s the world’s most gullible computer genius. <\/p>\n

Gates is donating $10 billion \u0096- on top of $4.5 billion he’s already committed — to pay for things like malaria vaccines. <\/p>\n

You want to save these kids? Keep them far from vaccines. I’ve spent a lot of time caring for children in clinics in Africa and Central America, and the last thing I want to see is some wealthy know-it-all poking these poor kids like they’re voodoo dolls. <\/p>\n

Since Gates is the inventor of the Microsoft operating system, he should know a thing or two about bugs. And in this case, the real problem isn’t malaria…it’s the mosquitoes that carry and transmit it. <\/p>\n

We solved the mosquito problem decades ago. Then we unsolved it when we let the treehuggers ban DDT, the safest and most effective pesticide the world has ever known. <\/p>\n

Don’t listen to the enviro-wackos — there’s no real proof DDT causes birth defects or cancer, and no evidence that it’s harmful to eagles or any other bird. <\/p>\n

But it’s hell on mosquitoes. <\/p>\n

Drain the swamps these bloodsuckers call home and then pump them full of DDT — you’ll have malaria-free zones and much more pleasant places to live. A $10 billion gift could go a long way toward making that happen. <\/p>\n

I may not have a billion dollars, but I do have some advice for you, Bill: Go back to making software for geeks, and let those of us who REALLY know what we’re doing deal with the bugs. <\/p>\n

Crashing the system,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates’ biggest glitch Here’s a lesson for you computer geeks out there: Stick with your transistors, and stay the heck out of medicine. Bill Gates — world’s richest man, even if he’s shed a few billion over the past year — has hatched a bizarre plot to vaccinate millions of Third World children. He’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}