Many were alarmed to learn online retail giant Amazon was considering
using drones to deliver products, however a proposed future use for
drones is infinitely more sinister and concerning.In May 2012, a team of
student researchers at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
scored $100,000 in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
to "develop unmanned aerial vehicles for developing world countries that
can be deployed by health care workers via cell phones to swiftly
deliver vaccines to hard-to-reach locations."The project was commissioned as one of the Gates Foundation's Round 8 Grand Challenges in Global Health Explorations with the goal being to Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems.
Bill Gates funding a vaccine delivery-via-drone method should come as no surprise.
For decades, the Gates Foundation, with the full cooperation of the World Health Organization, has been involved in vaccine development and population control research.
Last year, for instance, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded eleven teams of scientists $100,000 grants to continue research developing "better," stronger condoms.
The "philanthropic" entrepreneur was also behind a push to unload Monsanto's failed MON810 GM corn on African countries, and has consistently promoted HPV vaccines, through the GAVI Alliance, for people in poor nations.