“Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED and said, ‘Not only poor people should experience this.'”
As Orrin Judd notes:
Two thoughts occur: (1) hasn’t he been responsible for releasing enough bugs already; and, (2) if malaria actually was a disease of wealthy whites DDT wouldn’t be banned.
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Long before there Al Gore flunked out of Divinity School, this is yet another reminder of the horrors caused by the original junk science poseur, Rachel Carson.
On the other hand, Gates could easily make amends for this asinine stunt by becoming the next spokesman for Raid or Orkin.
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