Founder and former head of Microsoft bill gates called conspiracy theories about the “implantation of microchips” people under the guise of vaccination against coronavirus “stupid and strange”, writes Business Insider.
Commenting on the theory that gates supposedly intends to “chipping people”, he noted that he never dealt with microchips, and stressed that such rumors are “very difficult to deny, because it is so stupid and weird.”
In an interview for the BBC Today, gates emphasized that anti-scientific conspiracy theories affect the incitement to hatred and create a problem in a situation of a pandemic. He noted that for the formation of group immunity will need to vaccinate about 80% of the population, when there will be a vaccine, but if people are afraid of vaccination, the disease will continue to kill.
according to The New York Times, citing research company Zignal Labs, from February to April of conspiracy theories related to gates and coronavirus, in a different context mentioned in the social networks and the media about 1.2 million times. At the end of may polls YouGov and Yahoo News showed that the rumors believe 28% of Americans.
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