Corp, on 01 March 2012 - 09:01 PM, said:
Little Fish you might not know this but vaccines are part of overall improved health care, which also comes with an increase access to bith control. That's the link. And vaccines do result in an increase in population, for a time.
here is bill gates again:
"A surprising but critical fact we learned was that reducing the number of deaths actually reduces population growth. Chart 3 shows the strong connection between infant mortality rates and fertility rates"
http://www.gatesfoun...ood-deaths.aspx
first point - this is confirmation that the video is not out of context, he means exactly what he says - "vaccines reduce population"
second point - the evidence he gives is a correlation between the number of children a woman has, and the infant mortality rate. so his reasoning is that if you reduce the infant mortality rate, then the women will have less kids. this is a classic correlation-causation fallacy which is the stuff of pseudoscience! correlation does not mean causation!
it is more reasonable to suggest that the more kids a women has the more difficult she will find it to feed them all properly, so she will have a higher infant mortality rate due to malnutrition - her malnourished kids will be more susceptible to disease!
notice the caption under his graph - "better health
is linked to smaller families" which is the same as saying "smaller families
are linked to better health" - this sounds awfully like al gores "co2 is linked to temperature" deception. note his graph does NOT say "better health
means smaller families".