最近,网上盛传疫苗的阴谋。详情请搜索:“今年9月美国出钱联合国名义中国1亿儿童统一免费注射神秘疫苗”。对于该流传甚广的帖子的其他部分且不评论,中间有一句话是说在比尔·盖茨的演讲中讲到通过疫苗来降低世界人口。进而引申到绝育疫苗的阴谋。
鉴于对盖茨先生人格的信任,以及该论调很多不可信任之处的怀疑。我做了一些研究。
首先,该文章提到的盖茨先生在TED2010会议上的讲话基本上是确实存在的。该讲话中,确实包括这样一句话
“目前的世界人口有68亿,并且正在上涨到90亿。现在,如果我们能在新型疫苗、卫生保健、生殖健康服务方面做一些真正超级棒的工作的话,我们也许能降低10%~15%的人口。”
原文是这样的:
“First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3”
在网上的帖子里面,这句话很容易就被引申为通过疫苗实施非自愿节育的一个例证。
初步看,确实有阴谋的嫌疑。但是仔细一想又觉得不对,如果真是如此,这样的论调绝对不可以在公开的场合宣扬的啊?
进一步研究盖茨先生一贯以来的观点,才发现,这样的解释,实际上是断章取义。违背了盖茨先生的本意。
让我们来回顾一下盖茨先生在2008年的说法吧。
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/05/fzgps.01.html
Well, the most exciting thing I learned when I was jus*etting into philanthropy was that, if you reduce childhood deaths, if you improve health in a society, that, surprisingly, population growth goes down. And that's because a parent needs to have some children survive into adulthood to take care of them when they're old.
And so, if they think having six children is what they need to do to have at least two survive, that's what they'll do. And amazingly, across the entire world, as health improves, then the population growth actually is reduced.
And there's a miracle intervention, which is vaccines. In 1960, over 20 million children died. In 2005, less than 10 million died. And that's despite much larger global population.
That is huge progress. And a lot of that is because these vaccinations are being given broadly, over half of that improvement. Another part is from economic development.
And so, even in the poorest countries, we should go in and give them a malaria vaccine, and give them vaccines for diarrheal diseases. And if a mother wants to limit her family size, give her the tools that let her have that possibility.
大体含义是:
当一个社会的卫生保健得到改善,幼儿死亡率下降。这个社会的人口增长率就会下降。这是因为,父母不再需要生养非常多的孩子就可以保证有足够的孩子能够长大成人,使他们老来有靠。
比方说,如果医疗条件不好,一对父母需要生6个孩子,才能保证至少有两个孩子能够长大成人。到时候能够赡养他们。如果医疗条件好了,他们就不需要生那么多孩子了。可能生2-3个孩子就够了。
而盖茨先生发现,疫苗,正是降低一个社会幼儿死亡率的最有效的方法之一。
同时,在父母,特别是母亲没有意愿生养更多的孩子的时候,还需要给他们提供相应的工具让他们能够实现这个意愿。
当我们把这两段盖茨先生的言论综合起来考虑的时候,我们就可以发现,他的原意,实际上是:
新型疫苗和卫生保健-〉降低幼儿死亡率-〉让育龄父母产生少生的意愿
生殖健康服务->让父母少生的意愿能够实现
最后从意愿上和客观条件上降低出生率,减少世界人口增长率。
我不知道我引述的帖子的作者是不知道盖茨先生的本意还是故意歪曲。不管怎么样,我们网民需要自己的眼睛。
转自:
http://blog.163.com/thunder_ray@ ... 850720108623817762/.