A“Laboratory for Testing Ideas”"The Ginny Pigs of the Globe"
Bill Gates’ podcast with Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin, sparked a heated debate in India after his comments labeling the country as a “laboratory for testing ideas.” Bill Gates said, “And it’s kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take other places.”His comments revived a controversy over clinical trials in 2009 that were funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to test Merck’s HPV vaccine for cervical cancer on young Indian girls. Seven tribal school girls died after vaccination and many others were severely ill. All of the deaths were dismissed from being related to the vaccines without proper investigations. Reporting of the vaccines’ side-effects was often ignored and under-reported. There were gross violations of Informed Consent in Andhra Pradesh, and many of the girls and their parents were illiterate and did not understand the serious risks of the experiments.
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