Gates Foundation

[Guest guest]

I was talking with somebody today about the Gates Foundation, and it got me interested in finding out how much money they donate to autism research, versus how much money they grant to organizations that fund vaccine development. Here is something interesting that you can do. Go to their website, here http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Search/default.htm where you can do a search using keywords and it will list for you the organizations that get money, and how much. Check off the ‘grants’ box, and then type in keyword ‘autism’, with a date range from January 94 to the present. I’m finding that one grant was given. For a whopping total of five million dollars. Now, do the same search but using the keyword ‘vaccine’. The Gates Foundation, over the same time period, has donated upwards of two and a half billion dollars to over one hundred different organizations. If you don’t feel like adding up all of the numbers, just look at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization grants given in December 1999 (for the purchase of new vaccines) and February 2005 (for ‘general operating funds’) and you’re looking at 1.5 billion dollars. I heard, on one of the television or radio programs discussing the Foundation, that Bill, or maybe it was Melinda, felt that they should be the voice to speak for those who are unable to speak out for themselves. Ha. I can’t imagine who is less able to speak for him or her self than the low functioning autistic child. And yet, they give 5 million for autism, versus 2.8 billion for

vaccines. I noticed that Statens Serum Institute got a grant. For eleven million dollars. And I noticed that Emory University also got a grant for $900,000. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the rally parents weren’t made welcome in the Emory Inn. So cheer up. You’re not just up against the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry. You’re up against Bill Gates, too.