evidence: An Oct. 6 article published on the website Tech Startups added a new claim to the list by alleging that 11 years ago, Bill Gates talked about reducing the global population by 10% to 15% "using new vaccines for population control." [...] "The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion," Gates said. "Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15%." [...] A website article claimed that Bill Gates advocated for reducing the global population by using vaccines during a 2010 TedTalk.