ClaimsBill Gates

“Just as World War II was the defining event for our parents’ generation, the coronavirus pandemic we are living through right now will define ours.”

Bill and Melinda Gates, co-authors of annual letter February 2021 2020 was the year global health went local (2021 Annual Letter) (Gates Notes) archived copy

Prediction Biosecurity

The coronavirus pandemic will be the defining event of the Gateses' generation, as World War II was for their parents' generation.

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?

Reasoning

'Defining event' of a generation is subjective and untestable.

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Bill Gates, “The coronavirus pandemic will be the defining event of the Gateses' generation, as World War II was for their parents' generation.” (said February 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_b48c56c7cbb1, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b48c56c7cbb1

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More prediction claims by Bill Gates

  1. Mixed Prediction February 2021
    “We believe these new tools will soon begin bending the curve in a big way.”

    New COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines will soon begin to bend the pandemic curve substantially.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Resolved true Prediction 2015
    “And you can see there's over 30 million people die from that epidemic.”

    In the epidemic shown, which would spread throughout the world very quickly, over 30 million people die.

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