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Billionaire Bill Gates has become a top target of conspiracy theories related to the coronavirus pandemic, which the Microsoft co-founder called “bizarre.” “It’s almost hard to deny this stuff because it’s so stupid or strange that even to repeat it gives it credibility,” Gates said Thursday on …
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18 June 2020ShareSaveJack GoodmanBBC Reality CheckShareSaveBBCResearching viruses in farm animals is essential rather than glamorous work, and The Pirbright Institute in Surrey excels at it. But recently they’ve been getting some very unwanted attention. For months they’ve been unwittingly drawn …
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By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter In 2015, an unassuming-looking Bill Gates came on stage at the TED conference in Vancouver to issue a dire warning. “If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it is likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than war,” he told the …
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It’s one of the major conspiracy theories to flourish during the global pandemic — that coronavirus is a biological weapon. Key points: The Responsible Technology report says conspiracy theories have been spread widely on social media Report author Timothy Graham says they believe bot-like accounts …
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Some recent surveys suggest Americans, especially young ones, are wary of a coronavirus vaccine. The anti-vaccine movement is capitalizing on this skepticism, including at a recent in-person conference held in North Carolina. Top scientific experts have said an effective, widely-used vaccine is …
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Hundreds of anti-vaccination protesters have defied social distancing measures at rallies in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Protesters claiming the Covid-19 pandemic was a “scam” gathered at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Saturday, and carried signs declaring they were against vaccines …
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Image copyright TOBIAS SCHWARZ Image caption Conspiracy theorists around the world have put Bill Gates at the heart of their stories Speculation about a future coronavirus vaccine is ramping up and social-media posts from anti-vaccination campaigners are gaining more traction online. We’ve been …
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Posted May 31, 2020 07:35:53 Photo: Demonstrators at a rally against mandatory vaccinations in Sydney. (ABC News: Stephen Hutcheon and Scott Mitchell) As humanity waits impatiently for a coronavirus vaccine, a determined minority is exploiting the crisis to push the health debate down a path of …
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A coronavirus vaccine may be a long way away, but there is already a threat on the horizon: anti-vaxxers. Once a fringe presence in America, vaccine opponents have become better organized in recent years, a development that has contributed to the worst US measles outbreak in a generation in 2019. …
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Science Bill Gates, 5G, herbal remedies. COVID-19 conspiracy theories abound. But is confrontation the best course? Listen to DW’s science podcast for a different angle on the coronavirus — five minutes every day from Germany. Listen to audio 04:59
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