# Bill Gates: Keep your hands off those penises. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857 "2012-12-12T19:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/41 "2012-12-14T17:52:52Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Neither Bill Gates nor yourself are public health experts. The public health experts in the WHO and UNAIDS have advocated circumcision as an effective means of combating HIV in Africa. Gates is smart enough to know that if he wants to spend his money in the most effective way possible, he’s best off consulting the relevant experts. I am shocked, shocked! that you don’t believe the OP is the most brilliant when it comes to . . . Oh wait, never mind. My reality wasn’t adjusted properly. You’re good. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/42 "2012-12-14T19:20:15Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Far fewer then die from HIV. > > It makes transmission 60% less likely > > Neither Bill Gates nor yourself are public health experts. The public health experts in the WHO and UNAIDS have advocated circumcision as an effective means of combating HIV in Africa. Gates is smart enough to know that if he wants to spend his money in the most effective way possible, he’s best off consulting the relevant experts. > > Your dumb enough to think that your own emotional feelings about circumcision as practiced in the US trumps expert opinion regarding circumcision as an AIDS prevention measure in Africa. Bill Gates was always a bit of an asshole who was not above lying to people to get them to do what he wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/43 "2012-12-14T19:25:36Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Bill Gates was always a bit of an asshole who was not above lying to people to get them to do what he wanted. Therefore the WHO and UNAIDs are both wrong? (plus, what bizarre ulterior motive are you thinking Gates has for circumcising a bunch of men on the other side of the world if he’s lying about the whole HIV thing.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/44 "2012-12-14T19:27:01Z")
Perhaps he collects foreskins. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/45 "2012-12-14T19:37:04Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Perhaps he collects foreskins. Ew. 1. Collect foreskins. 2. ??? 3. Profit. And again, ew. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/46 "2012-12-14T19:42:40Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Ew. > > 1. Collect foreskins. > 2. ??? > 3. Profit. > > And again, ew. He’ll start a Museum of African Foreskins and get a huge tax write-off. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/47 "2012-12-14T20:30:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Perhaps he collects foreskins. His name is Bill, not David! ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/48 "2012-12-14T20:36:03Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > His name is Bill, not David! [Rimshot] 😃 It is actually part of his plan: 1. Profit 2. Sneakily kill people in Africa by making it look like I’m helping them, even though there are cheaper, more efficient and more fun ways I could do it. 3. ??? 4. Rule the world ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/49 "2012-12-15T06:46:45Z")
What IS it with this place that attracts so many anti-circumcision ranters? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/50 "2012-12-15T08:28:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What IS it with this place that attracts so many anti-circumcision ranters? People who want explanations behind their amputations? ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857/51 "2012-12-15T18:34:32Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Bill Gates was always a bit of an asshole who was not above lying to people to get them to do what he wanted. Don’t be ridiculous! He’s the greatest goddamn motherfucking hero the world has ever seen and single handedly carries the torch of human civilisation. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Ew. > > 1. Collect foreskins. > 2. ??? > 3. Profit. > > And again, ew. Well, they can be cultivated for fibroblasts for use in cosmetics, among other things. I was reading about disturbing things in cosmetics only the other day, foreskins being the third most disturbing by my reckoning, and saw an article claiming one can be worth $100,000. But I expect these ones are going to waste. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If I wasn’t circumcised at birth, Bill could pour $50 million into ME and I wouldn’t let a doc get near my boy with a knife. What surprises me in not the willingness to spend $50 million on adult male circumcision, but the idea that they can find enough adult males to spend that much money snipping. That’s why he told them it would save them from fatal illness. Which isn’t true, I posted a metanalysis to that effect further up, and even if it was would still be nothing compared to the humble french letter, but anyone who believes it is would not be unreasonable in consenting to the procedure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-keep-your-hands-off-those-penises/643857.md?page=2)