Is Bill Gates a Force for Good or Evil? Bill Gates and conspiracy theories

Several conspiracy theories are circulating about Bill Gates, such as the microchip conspiracy theory. Astonishingly, a YouGov poll of 1,640 people suggests that 28% of Americans believe that he wants to use vaccines to implant microchips in people.

To gain some idea of the diversity of opinion about him – browse this Linkedin comment thread where Bill, Rashida Jones, and Yuval Noah Harari discuss COVID conspiracy theories.

Next, check out some of the amazing work he is doing at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and peruse his blog GatesNotes.

Finally, visit Exemplars in Global Health and explore their work:

Success at scale may have many origins.

The quickest path is to identify who else has done it, find out how they did it, and adapt their strategy to your own circumstances.

Exemplars in Global Health aims to help public health decision-makers around the world do exactly this.

This is quintessential Knowledge Management and an example, although not a perfect one, of Positive Deviance in action.

I find the negative opinions of Bill Gates disturbing but not too surprising given the peculiar attraction of conspiracy theories.

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