Re: The origin of conspiracy
>Erm , please correct me if i'm wrong, but the back-story to the conspiracy goes like this:
There was also a policy by some charities not to treat some childhood diseases because the problem was overpopulation so adding a few million extra kids to a famine wasn't a great plan.
This of course morphed into a "bill Gates planning genocide" meme.
Now that has view has shifted to: if you can persuade people that more of their children will survive - they won't have as many.