evidence: "Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth, here is the unedited 2010 TED Talk video," the headline said. [...] A website article claimed that Bill Gates advocated for reducing the global population by using vaccines during a 2010 TedTalk. Gates wasn’t talking about reducing the population through vaccination. He and his former wife Melinda have repeatedly said that child mortality is lowered when families have access to life-saving vaccines and health care, allowing families to choose to have fewer children.