Lady, The foundation also funded Neil Ferguson's research at Imperial.
Didn't mean the UK government had to listen to the guy in fact a range of different modlers and different disciplines should have been listen to and that's on the UK government.
It also dosen't mean any reasearch they fund is worthless. Pharmaceutical companies tend to focus on western diseases as they have the money to pay to recoup devlopement costs so common diseases in other locations aren'tas well funded - so foundations like theirs are super important.
Do they get everything right - clearly not.
You're not the only one who can see the potential ethical problems to those chips though I can see in benefit in locations with poor record keeping and suspect blinkered thinking behind their reasearch and devlopment.
They have a lot of money they are choosing to spend on the world's health.
They've sunk a lot into covid -19 vaccines - think they are part funding 6 - and publicly stated they know they'll make a huge loss and may not get one at all. That's going to make them biased on the subject becuase they know the work that's going and and a lot more about their vaccine development proccesses and hurdles they need to get past regulatory authorities - but everyone has biases.
I also think there are supply issues with mass country/state covid -19 vaccinations - there won't be enough to start with and they'll have to prioritize. Only disease we have ever got rid off small pox we had to do targetted vaccination rather then entire world vaccinatons.
I'm pro vaccines but not so sure I want a covid-19 one despite having asthma as I'm not convinced the risk/benefit ratio is in my favor - though I do think it would be for older realtives - as age is the biggest risk factor for death. I am suprised number of people who seemingly can't grasp that basic thought process.
I do agree there are press issues - in many areas what's choosen to be reported and investigated does seem to be influenced by unseen power and money.