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I want to make sure I get this clearly Your criticism is that Bill Gates once spent an insignificant (relative to his resources) amount of money to take a flye

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• dekhn 11y ago
  That's part of it. If you look at the early gates investments in disease, they tended to be high-technology solutions like direct attempt to make vaccines and deliver complex infrastructure. Most of these attempts failed pretty badly, which Gates finally thought deeply about, and he reorganized around impact based on outcomes, rather than what his preconcieved notions about what would work would be. He switched to bed nets and other more practical solutions. I believe he wrote about this change in thought at some point but I can't find the article.
  • maxerickson 11y ago
    You could go through their press releases one by one and list all the worst millions that they donated to this or that: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases?page=1&perPage=8&orderBy=_searchdate&orderDir=Normal http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases?p...