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Oh hey, look who funds Wellcome: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=wellcome https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Wor

• navbaker 6y ago
  Is there an insight we are supposed to gain from this connection?
  • jtdev 6y ago
    "Epidemiological study supports assertions of those funding the study" Does that not seem problematic to you?
    • adenadel 6y ago
      It might be if the Gates Foundation had funded the study. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9#Fun https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
      • jtdev 6y ago
        Wellcome Trust receives significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
    • 542354234235 6y ago
      “Problematic” being the catch all term to throw out rather than make an actual claim. Was the study faulty? Was the funding clandestine or did they attempt to conceal it? Does the Gates foundation support meat reduction for ideological reasons, rather than evidence based ones? Is The Gates foundation an industry that has a vested interest in continuing that industry (like an oil company funding oil benefit studies), and if so, what “industry” is that? What would they stand to lose, or gain, from the outcome of this study? What would they stand to lose or gain from any study, when their goal seems to pretty clearly be based on using the best available evidence to inform their charity programs? Is there anything at all beyond a charity that focuses on evidence based programs funding research to help inform their programs?
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  • user-the-name 6y ago
    Conspiracy theorists have a real thing about Bill Gates.
    • ddorian43 6y ago
      You can't deny that Bill has completely lost it trying to become public batman by force and shove whatever the fuck he wants into our throats by using his money "for our good".
      • tasty_freeze 6y ago
        I deny it. I just disproved your assertion. Bill Gates spends lots of his money trying to develop technologies such as clean burning stoves for developing countries, inexpensive toilets for the same, funding advanced nuclear technology. How is this shoving it down our throats? Your single sentence is brimming with emotion: belittling him with the batman moniker, shoving it down our throats, whatever the fuck, scare quotes. HN has higher standards than this.
        • ddorian43 6y ago
          He is doing it by force. Paying ads, paying politicians, paying experts, paying democratic party, insisting on vaccines, insisting on removing meat (have you seen healthy athletic vegans ? extremely rare). You have to look at things that he wants to be applied by force, not things that he "generously creates and you can optionally use it". If I want to eat meat and Bill wants to raise taxes on meat by force (using his billions so I pay higher taxes on meat) then I don't see this being a good thing for me. If he makes cheap soy-lent so people can drink it and rest in peace, then it's ok by me. But he is forcing soy-lent to me too.
          • ChrisRR 6y ago
            No-one is forcing you to stop eating meat, and yes in fact I have a powerlifter vegan friend. You're clearly brimming with emotion, and you seem to have drawn your own conclusion that bill gates is forcing you to stop eating meat. I'll be honest, that's a new conspiracy theory that I've not heard. Why don't you think about it logically. What would Bill gates, a man who statistically only has 13 more years to live, gain from stopping you from eating meat?
• adenadel 6y ago
  I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the Wellcome Trust is a large organization with an endowment worth tens of billions of dollars and a variety of funding sources. Your link shows a number of moderately sized grants for mostly infectious disease projects.