Bill Gates Sparks Controversy with Statement About India Being ‘a Laboratory to Try Things’
Shockingly, the people of India do not like being made to feel as if they are guinea pigs for NGOs.
Billionaire Bill Gates recently sparked massive outrage and controversy during a podcast with Reid Hoffman by referring to India as “a kind of laboratory to try things.”
This comment came as part of a discussion highlighting India’s role in global development initiatives.
During the conversation, Gates said, “India is an example of a country where there’s plenty of things that are difficult there – the health, nutrition, education is improving and they are stable enough and generating their own government revenue enough that it’s very likely that 20 years from now people will be dramatically better off and it’s kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places.”
He went on to add that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s largest non-US office is based in India, and that the country plays a key role in piloting many of the Foundation’s initiatives: “Our biggest non-US office for the Foundation is in India and the most number of pilot roll-out things we’re doing anywhere in the world are with partners in India.”
Gates’ choice of words, referring to India as a “laboratory,” immediately sparked outrage. Many took offense to what they perceived as a disrespectful comparison, with some accusing him of treating India as a testing ground for global initiatives.
India is a laboratory, and we Indians are Guinea Pigs for Bill Gates
This person has managed everyone from the Government to opposition parties to the media
His office operates here without FCRA, and our education system has made him a hero!
I don’t know when we will wake up! pic.twitter.com/dxuCvQ44gg
— Vijay Patel🇮🇳 (@vijaygajera) December 2, 2024
This statement has reignited controversy surrounding a 2009 clinical trial by PATH (Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health), an NGO funded by the Gates Foundation.
In 2009, PATH collaborated with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct clinical trials of a cervical cancer vaccine on 14,000 tribal schoolgirls in Khammam district, Telangana, and Vadodara, Gujarat. Months after the trials began, several participants reported severe side effects and seven deaths were recorded, although the deaths were later attributed to unrelated causes.
An investigation into the trials uncovered serious ethical lapses, revealed the skin doctor. The trials were presented as a public health initiative, concealing their experimental nature. Consent forms were allegedly signed by hostel wardens instead of the girls’ parents, leaving families unaware of potential risks.
The trials specifically targeted tribal communities with limited healthcare access and awareness. Severe side effects were reported, fuelling allegations that the trials exploited vulnerable populations under the guise of aid.
PATH denied any wrongdoing, attributing the deaths to infections and suicides.
Shockingly, the people of India do not like being made to feel as if they are guinea pigs for NGOs.
Gates expressed admiration for India’s progress and innovation during the same podcast.
“Our biggest non-US office for the Foundation is in India, and the most number of pilot rollout projects we’re doing anywhere in the world are with partners in India,” he noted.
He further added, “If you go there and you’ve never been, you might think, whoa, this is a chaotic place, and you’re not used to so many levels of income all being on the street at the same time. But you will get a sense of vibrancy.”
Perhaps if Gates were less isolated with his billions and interacted with more normal people, he would have had the wisdom and humility to frame this discussion better.
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There is some seriously smart population in India. Nobody mentions Africa as a laboratory to try things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcmGYe39XG0&list=PL0F530F3BAF8C6FCC
Quantum mechanics course
That would be racist.
Bill Mengele.
Is he by any chance related to one Anthony Mengele, a.k.a. ‘Fraudci’?
“…it’s kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places.”
And if they don’t work out in India, oh well, what happens in Lulla Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra stays in Lulla Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra.
Another Racist Progressive who thinks brown people are lab rats. Ho hum.
NGO’s, now there’s real trouble. All those fancy boats with the matching life vests bringing ‘refugees’ across the Mediterranean to Europe, never to leave but take the place over. Or the Color Revolutions. Look at the ‘good’ they’ve done. Ukraine, Belarus, Libya…
Shockingly, Reid Hoffman is an even bigger douchebag than Bill Gates.
Can’t like your post enough! Hoffman is diabolical….also.
They are a pair made for Hell.
I think we have had enough of other countries being a laboratory to try things. Did nobody learn anything from covid?
They learned that their approach was too scattershot. Next time they won’t make the same mistakes and allow people as much freedom. The boot will stay on the neck.
Have you ever been to India? Some of the worst treatment of humans anywhere in the world is found in India. Slumdog Millionaire was a watered down version of how life is for so many there. The place is the world’s largest cesspool. It’s been like that since … forever. Just the things that they do in the Ganges is enough to make a billy goat puke and that’s not even the half of it.
The place that created the caste system doesn’t like how they are being treated … LOL.
Bill Gates is a soulless ghoul who the world will be very much better without, but he doesn’t treat Indians any worse than Indians treat Indians. Lying and cheating is also very much part of Indian culture. Frankly, Bill Gates should emigrate to India.
100% correct on all counts. Wish I could give more upvotes for that post. Especially the last line.
Brazil was Fauci’s laboratory.
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?
It would be a real shame if someone gave Bill Gates’ address to Luigi Mangione.
Perpetrators of evil: Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison and Bill Gates.
Garlic, Holy water and silver tipped bullets. Wooden stakes, if your faith is strong enough to step into that place between life and afterlife. I, for one, would not go there. That is where these beings get their essence..
Bill Gates is an embarassment to the US…..if he’s so sure he’s doing good for the world, let him take the vaccines he’s foisting on the Third World as a massive clinical trial.
Not every catastrophe in the Third World is of the Bhopal variety.
The level of arrogance by Gates in that statement of India as a laboratory is astounding. People either individually or in groups ain’t your damn guinea pigs to experiment with.
Bill honestly thinks he is helping his little inferior friends. Of course a few of them will die while he figures things out. Mistakes are a normal part of learning.,, Anyone who had a Windows product during Bill’s reign knows how that goes. However:
Do you think Bill would ask his rich friends to have their daughters take part in one of his experiments?
GOD is keeping score … there is a bill
coming due … Gates doesn’t have nearly
enough money to pay THAT tab…
He further added, “If you go there and you’ve never been, you might think, whoa, this is a chaotic place, and you’re not used to so many levels of income all being on the street at the same time. But you will get a sense of vibrancy.”
I visited India for the first time this past February. Gates’ thoughts echoed my own first thoughts after spending my first days in India: “Mumbai is a city of stark contrasts—a slum laundry adjacent to new high-rises, natives transporting materials with pushcarts alongside others doing same in hybrid trucks; ritzy malls next to family-run stands selling everything under the sun. Drivers are expert here, fighting always for a way to quickly wind through traffic composed of heavy equipment, tour buses, motorized rickshaws (tuk-tuks), ubiquitous taxis and scooters, along with jaywalking pedestrians, many of whom are young people deeply engaged on their phones. I love the feel of the place, composed as it is of intense building development, youthful energy and diversity of inhabitants. India … has a sense of being on the front end of a rising tide, a place definitely on the move infectiously inviting anyone to join the drama of life as it should be ordered.”
In the days and weeks that followed I found myself expanding my thoughts on this initial impression, focusing on the street life that captivated me from the get-go, of which the Indian roundabout is ground zero. It also serves as a metaphor for India’s present-day robust political, cultural and economic activity—a country that can claim to be the world’s fastest-growing economy, the largest active democracy, and one quickly and eagerly adopting the modern ways of the world even as it retains it singular cultural heritage and traditional values tied to its Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and other religions. Arranged marriages are still common, even as the country can claim to have one of the lowest divorce rates.
Recent studies of India have shared “the belief that a healthy and cohesive civil society, supported by effective institutions, is a prerequisite for effective governance, market regulation, and necessary reforms to the state and the economy. For this mechanism to produce truly effective governance, however, citizens must also understand their own civic responsibility, as well as what it takes for the state (or other organizations) to deliver on their priorities.” Even as Indians adhere to their traditions, they exhibit a high degree of civic cohesion and syncretism.
The activity you see is that of the dungheap, the cesspit, the open mass grave.
The bustle is that of maggots, flies and vermin stripping the flesh and offal from a long dead carcass.
I wonder why Americans aren’t “used to so many levels of income all being on the street at the same time?”
That comment alone shows me everything I need to know about Gates.
First, India has a wider range of income levels than the US – because their poor are much, much poorer. Second, their downtrodden poor have been downtrodden so effectively that their rich can mingle with the poorest on the same streets without the concerns about being mugged that our rich have.