ClaimsBill Gates

“This work will only become more important in the future, as climate change makes more people susceptible to disease.”

Bill Gates, writing in annual letter section 10 February 2020 Why we swing for the fences (2020 Annual Letter) (Gates Notes) archived copy

Prediction Other global risks

Global health work will become more important in future as climate change makes more people susceptible to disease.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Vague prediction with no horizon about future importance, not cleanly testable.

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Bill Gates, “Global health work will become more important in future as climate change makes more people susceptible to disease.” (said 10 February 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0e1d0555e98f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0e1d0555e98f

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More prediction claims by Bill Gates

  1. Resolved true Prediction 4 February 2025
    “The climate work, there’ll be some policy things that are less favorable.”

    Some government policies affecting climate work will become less favorable than before.

  2. Mixed Prediction February 2021
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    New COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines will soon begin to bend the pandemic curve substantially.

  3. Mostly false Prediction 2015
    “Guinea worm, an incredibly painful disease whose sufferers spend months incapacitated while worms that can be several feet long burst out of their legs, will also be gone soon, thanks in large part…”

    Guinea worm disease will be eradicated soon, thanks largely to President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center.

  4. Mostly false Prediction 2015
    “We can get polio out of Africa this year and out of every country in the world in the next several years.”

    Polio can be eliminated from Africa in 2015 and from every country in the world within several years.

  5. Mostly true Prediction 2015
    “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”

    If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it will most likely be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.

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