The primary reason I follow Corbett is that he is good at doing research. However, I can't always follow the connections he attempts to make.
There are notable strange things around Gates. He doesn't promote things like clean water or refrigeration, which has long been among the very biggest problems in Africa (aside from horrifying levels of corruption). For the current crisis, he doesn't promote living a healthy lifestyle. The clip of the creepy conclusion of Melinda Gates and the reporter that the obvious problem in Africa is too many children. Somehow the only feasible technology to solve all mankind's greatest problems (like too many children) is a massive tracking apparatus. His being presented on every media outlet as an authority on anything without a single question as to why he is such an authority.
> There are notable strange things around Gates. He doesn't promote things like clean water or refrigeration, which has long been among the very biggest problems in Africa (aside from horrifying levels of corruption).
It's literally the very first result for a Google search on "gates foundation clean water".
For someone who claims to value research, you're making an awful lot of extraordinary claims while patently doing zero research to back them up with any trace value of facts.
The primary reason you won't see me bothering to engage with comments such as this is that as soon as your single, de facto trusted top Google search result of their organization's own website is presented as the beginning and the end of your argument, I know that no matter what I present it is highly unlikely to do anything other than create some stupid long chain of discussion where any point I attempt to make is just "conspiracy theory" because you've already proven me wrong with incontrovertible proof.
> (...) as soon as your single, de facto trusted top Google search result of their organization's own website is presented as the beginning and the end of your argument,
You claimed the Gates foundation didn't promoted access to clean water.
The Gates' foundation website clearly shows that they do in fact promote access to clean water. And sanitation. And hygiene.
Either you were lying or you were just blabbering about stuff you did not knew.
That, if anything, is enough reason to end an argument, because your claim is clearly bullshit.
The Gates Foundation regularly funds programs and research around clean water and sanitation. But that's hard to spin into large attention I guess, unless it's something like "Bill Gates drinks cleaned poop water on camera" a few years back.
> The primary reason I follow Corbett is that he is good at doing research. However, I can't always follow the connections he attempts to make.
I agree, his view is very pessimistic, but that can be valuable to kind of recalibrate your own view and maybe reach some reasonable middle ground.
His research and the facts that he finds and presents are brilliant though, can't argue about that. It's beyond obvious that he's dedicated to his work and puts a huge effort into it.
> Does everybody need to speak from a position of authority? He is an influential person, seems like it's enough for the news.
Influential because he ran Microsoft.
Does this mean I should accept the solution to all ills is a massive tracking apparatus forced on me through governments because Bill Gates says so? Or even that I should accept the vaccines paid for by government manufactured by Bill Gates under a system where he has no product liability?
Don't these seem like reasonable questions?
The fallacy of appeal to false authority is applicable here.
