Nanci Casson is a great example of a tinfoil hat wearing loonie who loves conspiracy theories that are based on lies and deliberate misinformation- some of which can be traced to political groups with a series agenda against certain individuals. It's quite sad really- scientifically illiterate and not capable of logic or reason.

Shut up, Nanci. Your batshit insane anti vax conspiracy theory b******t is distracting from us being able to have actual critical conversation about Gates. It IS an important thing to do, because he’s being treated like a celebrity when he should still be seen as a ruthless business man who thinks he knows best on way more topics than those in which he actually has any expertise.

Bill Gates isn’t what he seems. He’s still doing things that prop up preferred corporate interests. Worse, like many billionaires, he has the arrogance of believing that his success in becoming a billionaire means he knows enough about [insert topic here] to know best on influencing things. Our culture of wealth worship just adds fuel to that fire by acting like he does know everything. Our naivety helps fuel his arrogance and hubris. I’m not saying he’s the worst kind of human being. I’m saying he’s not the kind we should be promoting like he’s been getting promoted for the last however many years. His “donations” aren’t what we are made to see them as. He is no expert on education; he is interested in promoting businesses that sell products he likes and therefore pushes certain education system notions that feed those businesses (like standardized testing; one of the popular factoids about Gates is that he never graduated college... and it’s not because of inferior testing).

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

This comment has been deleted.

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Oh Karen, just post a link. Everything is on the internet, true of not, I'm sure you can find it for us.

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

You realize that everything Bill Gates claims to help with is said by Bill Gates himself, right? All the financial details of the Gates Foundation is kept private with only Bill, Melinda, and Warren Buffet knowing the details. Every information about the Gates Foundation is put out by them. That's like me saying that I've donated $300 million to help people. Do you believe me? Why or why not?

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Bill Gates has done nothing but used African children as guinea pigs for his stupid mandatory vaccine that he want's the world to get. His vaccines are responsible for killing thousands of children in 3rd world countries......he's nothing but a eugenist who believes that only black and brown populations need to be exterminated.....oops I mean controlled

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

this is extremely simple-minded - you really have no idea about deeper topics

Thanks for posting that link. From article “I would say that psychopaths or people with psychopathic traits, thrive in chaos and know that others don’t, so they will often create chaos at work for this reason,”.....sound familiar to anyone?

Roadkill - I absolutely understand. You have to have a certain disposition to be work in fields that are high risk/high reward. My family wanted me to be a lawyer, but I can't imagine having it on my conscious if I lost an important case. What if a criminal didn't get convicted and then hurt someone? What if the wrong parent got custody of a child? What if a company wasn't held accountable for hurting people? What if a person was wrongly convicted of a crime? You have to have the right kind of mindset to not be consumed by these thoughts.

Same for politicians... any person seeking to have that amount of control over other people are inbalanced.

I really wish people would distinguish between psychopathy and sociopathy. There’s a good reason to do so. A sociopath isn’t apt to commit violent acts, but they ARE apt to be very destructive to society. We filter out psychopaths via their criminal acts but we have no such filter for stopping sociopathy getting into power.