All this talk of eugenics is silly.

Gates believes in trying to reduce infant mortality and raising people out of poverty.

Cynics have always argued that you would then have a population explosion as an excuse for doing nothing.

Gates points out that in fact, when you reduce infant mortality and raise people (especially women) out of poverty, the reverse happens. Women have fewer babies later.

That's the opposite of eugenics.

Critics of Gates are simply confused on this point, and they should swallow their pride about it, so that we can all work towards reducing infant mortality in developing countries. Saving children is a good thing.

All this talk of eugenics is silly.

Gates believes in trying to reduce infant mortality and raise people out of poverty.

Cynics have always argued that you would then have a population explosion as an excuse for doing nothing.

Gates points out that in fact, when you reduce infant mortality and raise people (especially women) out of poverty, the reverse in fact happens. Women have fewer babies later.

That's the opposite of eugenics.

Critics of Gates are simply confused on this point, and they should swallow their pride about it, so that we can all work towards reducing infant mortality in developing countries. Saving children is a good thing.