Episode 2004 Scott Adams - Alternative WEF, Dogbert Takes On Canada, Biden Documents Scandal & More

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news for example uh California is suffering a drought for a number of years what would be good news if you are suffering a drought rain not just rain but a lot of rain a lot of rain in fact California got so much rain that it made a dent in the uh in the drought so the news today is a the dangerous side to this oh yeah there's a dangerous side to not having a drought it's that the plants and trees will grow so quickly with all that water that when they inevitably dry out in the summer it's going to be a forest fire catastrophe right so the good news is the drought's over the bad news is we'll go up in flames and you won't be able to go outdoors in the summer so is there anything that Tinder can't ruin I'll just let that one sit there for a while is there anything that Tinder can't ruin you could just fill in the rest yourself at home well I saw a review um I think it was on CNN that said there's a new show on that's apparently a banger it's a banger I think that's like a British word for good and I said to myself wow are you kidding me there's something worth watching on television but before I before I read the review before I read the review I I realized what was going on what does it mean in 2023 when there's a movie or a TV series that's excellent what's that mean it's really really good yeah it was basically Brokeback Mountain yeah so it had to be either Holocaust or Brokeback Mountain had to be lgbtq had to be a trans in there somewhere right so I'm reading the review it's like and the love story between these two men oh okay I get it best best thing that's ever been on television because it's a love story between two men and that's all you need to know best thing on television ever since the beginning of time probably win a lot of awards um CNN's ratings have reached a new nine-year low and this is why we call Greg goffeld the Thanos of news he's destroyed half of his competition already but that's only part of the story um apparently CNN notched its uh sorry uh Megyn Kelly tweet I saw who were talking about it and she said it got it so the lowest ratings in nine years but it's also the lowest rating across every category of the day so every hour of the day a new low now here's the funny thing on on Twitter you can read the comments of the X CNN viewers and how unhappy they are do you know why they're so unhappy why are the CNN viewers so unhappy with CNN it started telling real news not completely you know they still have a good pocket of bias over there that that comes out pretty obviously but they made a concerted and I think legitimate move toward actual news where they didn't just lie about conservatives and then the people were like what what yeah so it turns out you can't make money telling people the truth or or attempting to tell them the truth you could argue whether they get it right but attempting to tell people a calm objective truth is terrible for your ratings do you know how I know that does anybody know how I know that attempting to tell the truth even if you don't do it right but attempting to tell the truth you know that's terrible for Ratings right it's certainly bad for mind now luckily I have you know a death wish yeah that's not literal I don't have a I don't have a literal Death Wish and by the way I'm not planning to commit suicide so let me put that out there I am not planning to commit suicide feeling good feeling great actually that now that I'm off my blood pressure meds they were definitely screwed with my mind but I want you to know I'm not planning to kill myself because I do think there's a reasonably good chance I'll get murdered in the next two years I mean reasonable chance meaning five percent maybe five percent but that's you know more than you want to worry about you probably don't have a five percent chance of getting murdered but I have a five percent chance of getting murdered for political reasons because I I move the needle so anyway um what was I talking about I completely lost the thread I don't know was it interesting was it anything good oh about the news yeah so CNN is losing viewers because they're attempting to tell them the truth uh I attempt to tell the truth on my live streams and tweeting but of course everybody just says well that's your truth you big old stupid liar you gullible idiot we'll talk more about how dumb I am later all right uh here's a story that I swear to God you really can't tell the difference between parody and reality if I didn't tell you if I had not told you in advance that this is real the following story would you have believed it right if you didn't know it was real would you have believed this if you just heard it in the wild I'm not even sure I believe it but I saw it today that the book 1984 Georgia Orwell's book famous classic the estate has approved a request to have it Rewritten from a woman's point of view finally yeah finally finally I'll tell you I tried to read that thing you know I tried to read 1984.

you know I was familiar with of course but I wanted to see if it held up and I tried to read that thing and I was like oh my God this book is entirely from a man's point of view I couldn't even finish it there were there were no lgbtq themes the Holocaust wasn't even mentioned not once um oh maybe it was maybe it was actually I don't remember but you know the the biggest problem was it wasn't from a woman's point of view and if you could get that fixed then that that book might have some legs people might want to start talking about that well um well I swear to God I had something on my you know why why is it that have you ever just tried to open an i.

Pad and just leave it there so you could go back to it and it'll like just like change his page and it'll turn off and it was she'll come up and it'll ask for software updates and like why can't it just sit there just sit there and do what the sorry will be no cursing there will be no cursing but I'd like to call your attention to today's Dilbert comic which I just tweeted um and you may recognize this story it's a dogbert talking to Dilbert see if you recognize this story from the news dogbert's reading his phone and dogberg says the College of psychologists of Ontario says they will pull my license unless I surrender to a re-education camp dilber says you don't live in Canada and you don't have a license to practice and then dilber says they are oddly aggressive for Canadians dogbert takes a sip of his coffee and says sounds like a mental disorder all right do you recognize that story yeah the College of psychologists of Ontario has asked Dr.

Jordan Peterson to come in to be re-educated the the best thing that ever happened to Canadian uh psychologists industry is Jordan Peterson he actually made their entire profession look worthwhile for a change he he took this thing that didn't have the greatest reputation in the world you know the the practice of psychology and turned it into something useful for millions of people around the world so what do they got to do well you better re-educate that because sorry I just couldn't do it I just couldn't get through it without swearing but I think you will agree that one that one belonged that one belonged there so I uh um I had already previewed uh to Dr.

Peterson that I was going to run this comic he asked for the original do you think I said yes it's a trick question it's a it's a trick question no it's a trick question come on come on it's me you know it's always a trick question yeah there's no original there's no such thing as Originals they're all created digitally but I will setting up a nice copy because uh just wanted him to know I'm in his corner solidly and in his fight against the Ontario or the College of psychologists of Ontario and if you are not aware of this um I'm just guessing just going to take a guess there's a probably uh better than 50 chance that the members of the College of psychologists of Ontario have been sent a few copies of this topic this morning probably I'll bet they got a few copies sent to them how about when they opened their email they were oh not 400 copies of this damn thing being sent to me why do people keep sending me this comic why are they mocking us for this totally reasonable uh uh effort of ours to re-educate the only person who has made them look good in their entire history so anyway we'll we'll see if the power of Dilbert has any any hold by the way this will become the subject of a lawsuit I think isn't uh Dr.

Peterson taking him to court some kind of lawsuit about this I don't know the details but I will tell you that the Dilbert comic has been used in lawsuits before in legal cases and it's used in the sense of what should be common knowledge if it appears in the Dilbert comic that's evidence that the public should know about this that it's a commonly understood thing otherwise it doesn't become a comic you know I wouldn't do a comic about something that you know isn't real uh well I guess I would but you know the difference so it could make a difference it could make the difference because being in a delivery comic establishes that it's ridiculous you get that right like it wouldn't work as a joke it wouldn't work unless it was ridiculous on its own you can't take something that makes sense and make a joke about it by the way did you know that did you know you can't make a joke about something that's just perfectly reasonable for example uh my company decided to cut expenses because we were losing money what can I do with that nothing right there's no joke you can make about somebody who does the thing you're supposed to do so the fact that it's in the Dilbert comic and we can all laugh at it and recognize it as funny and I didn't change it much just the dog bear had to be re-educated the fact that they would re-educate anybody is so ridiculous that it just stands on its own as okay that's just stupid all right enough about that um do you think that there's a phone addiction that we have and that the reason we check our phone so much is that the phones are really really good is that why we check them because they're so addictive and they're good that's what we all think right and it feels that way when I use my phone it feels addictive so it's perfectly reasonable to assume that's what's going on let me throw out another possibility have you ever been with somebody you really enjoyed being with and then you know she hadn't looked at your phone in hours does that ever happened to you if you're with people or even just one person and you're really happy with what you're doing you don't even think about using your phone so here so here's the provocative new Theory phones are not awesome they're not addictive people got worse people started sucking so badly that spending time with them is just painful but my phone never disappoints me when was the last time you looked at your phone and it did not give you a hit you know it's like my best dealer ever I'm like I need a hit of you know hit us some chemicals here scroll scroll scroll good okay scroll Scrolls all right I'm happy now I've said this a lot but I think that our changing preferences have made us all terrible to each other in the early days nobody had much of an interest outside of what they were doing you know locally so you know at the end of the day how's your how are your crops oh my crops are good how are your crops I mean we basically had common references and you know people enjoyed each other because that's what they had and now I think people are so picky about what they like and don't like you put any two together and there's so much they disagree on because there's so much they think about and there's so many different ways to look at everything that we end up being like two porcupines who can't hug you know it's like although I guess porcupines do reproduce you ever wonder how porcupines reproduce let me turn it into a joke it's already a joke I'm stealing this joke how do yeah all right you've already heard the joke how do porcupines reproduce very carefully very carefully all right I'm just putting that out there were you aware that the biggest cause of depression and suicide among the youth is lack of sleep did you know that I heard this as a data that if you look at lack of sleep it tracks directly to depression and suicide not not too surprising right so lack of sleep is the number one cause of suicide and depression what causes lack of sleep in 2023 only the phone and you know screens just screens so I'm gonna go all the way here I think social media should be illegal for minors American social media and Tick Tock and everything else now Tick Tock should be banned in America but the other ones you know they're American companies and I think they should stay for adults but I think that minors should not have access to social media after 9 pm what do you say after 9 pm no access to social media but my first choice is to ban it completely for young people I don't think young people should have access to any social media it's not like we don't know that it's dangerous let me ask you this let's say uh big Pharma came up with an idea and the idea was they were going to have you look at look at screens every night and you can do it as long as you want you could stay up all night if you want and then they do a study this is big Pharma right just a hypothetical and they do the randomized control trial and they find out that the people who use their screens at night lose sleep and end up being depressed and suicidal the people who do not use the screens have just normal lives and they're better so would the government approve that product from Big Pharma if if social media have been tested in a randomized controlled trial before anybody had access to it and of course you can't do it would it be legal I don't think so no I think the health impact especially on children I think the health impact of social media would have made it banned if it had been a drug and the reason that we don't call social media a drug is because we're stupid bucket people humans are stupid bucket people everything has to be in a bucket what are you conservative because are you conservative or a liberal let me get my bucket oh you're in between no you can't be in between nobody's in between get in your bucket right so as soon as you say that drugs are are a pill or a injection then you say okay that's drugs we'll treat drugs this way we get all these rules for what a drug is and then somebody invents social media which is clearly a drug all right I won't even listen to an argument on this point social media is a drug that's just administered in a different way instead of a needle or a pill that just goes in through your eyes as images but it's absolutely a drug and the fact that we don't treat it the way we treat the things that we test and do randomized control trials has nothing to do with whether we should or whether it makes sense has nothing to do with the logic the reasoning the priority is nothing to do with that has only to do with the fact that we reflexively put things in buckets and our our medical bucket just doesn't have screens in it and that's it we put screens in the entertainment bucket when it should have been in the medical bucket nobody there's not one person arguing the point there's not a single person here who will argue that point yeah it's a digital narcotic right you you tell me if if we had considered social media drug it would not pass government approval it wouldn't even come close not even close I've heard more people I heard Bill Marshay the other day that he can't watch a movie anymore because they're too long and boring compared to the quick he had a social media I don't know if you talk about other people or about himself but he made the point now who was the first person you heard say that I think I'm the first person you've ever heard say that that you that movies are dead you'll never be able to watch a movie again unless you're with somebody it's more about being with the person yeah yeah so I was ahead of the curve on that I guess um so U.S news uh the periodical the publication U.S news every year they do uh ranking of Colleges and Schools I guess they do graduate schools and medical schools and stuff like that yeah they're having a trouble uh ranking medical schools because some of some of the medical schools are resisting being ranked on their usual standards and they say that they won't even contribute information to the rankings unless their diversity and Equity successes are included in their ranking what do you think of that would you like would you like colleges to be ranked in part the quality of the school the quality of the school not just the fairness but the quality of the education that's what's being ranked not fairness but the quality of the education and they're saying that the quality of the education is better when you've got more diversity and equity and inclusion what do you think of that do you think you get a better education if there's more diversity you're all racist you totally get a better education if there's more diversity you're off record racist and I mean that literally yeah I'm sorry I just have to say that to your screen faces now if the only variable is different if the only variable that's different is diversity it's all positive uh do you disagree because the diversity does give you more access to more points of view so if everybody's equally qualified that's a benefit really you don't think that's a benefit if everybody's the same qualifications you don't think diversity gives you more points of view more access more windows to look through you know more more understanding better bedside manner perhaps because you you understand people better no it's unambiguously good all right well you could argue that point but here's my point it's the way they get there is sacrificing Merit then does everybody think that's good if you were to de-prioritize Merit to get more equity and more diversity is that is that still good well yeah there's a crossover point right so you're getting something from diversity and I'm I'll argue that to the death um because simply because I've been in those environments whenever I'm in an environment where there's more diversity I'm absolutely picking up more understanding there's just no way to argue that you can't argue that but if you give up Merit here's what I think we need to do I think I would like to know if my doctor got one of those uh Equity degrees or one of those Merit degrees don't you think we should make a difference would you like to know oh doctor I see you have a degree did you get one of the equity types or one of the Merit types now this will never happen of course but there are so many things that could be solved by truth and labeling right if the only thing I'm asking for is truth and labeling why would that be a problem let the free market decide if they think that somebody who went to a sort of equity priority School got more out of the equity and the diversity because there is a lot to get there then they gave up on maybe a little bit you know in the rankings of their academics yeah maybe it's not that big a deal you know maybe it's a small tweak to to the uh Merit to get a lot more diversity you can make that argument but I would certainly like as a consumer to know the difference I I want to know was equity and diversity a big deal at the school you went to and did that have anything to do with the fact that you made it through or was it Merit only so so today I have a uh a doctor who is a woman and she's brown of some type I've never asked all right so she's a person of color some kind of a brown whatever and she's a woman I have never once thought that she was there for any reason other than Merit never even occurred to me never once in my mind did I say ooh I wonder if she only got through medical school because of you know her her never once never thought and she's a great doctor I like her a lot but what happens in five years if the doctor's coming out or coming out of you know Equity priority College I'd kind of want to know I mean I might not make a different decision I might make the same decision like I'd like to know a little truth and labeling would be nice uh speaking of Dr.

Jordan Peterson he is creating an alternative W World economic forum and I guess it would be uh Pro energy that's cheap so that poor people can have access to the energy and pro families and monogamy now here's my big problem with Dr.

Peterson's philosophies of life he's big on family and monogamy and I absolutely agree with him that that is the best system for a stable world but only maybe for 25 of people and that's the problem in the old days maybe it was better for a higher percentage I don't think I really don't think more than 25 percent of the public is going to make a marriage work for the rest it's probably a bad idea and I don't know what to do about that it could be that his approach is the best which is if you don't push as hard as possible and the thing you know works you're in trouble yeah I get that boy that makes sense and I do agree that if you get the right two people and you put them in the monogamous marriage it is the best I I think that that's just sort of obviously true you know you can see it in a lot of ways but let me ask you this question I'm gonna put on my skeptic hat for a moment do we all agree that single moms uh produce children who have the most criminal records would you agree that that correlation seems to be really clean you don't agree I'm not saying it's causation I'm saying the correlation would it be easier if I just say correlation because the causation is what I'm going to question next all right so here's my question is it also true of college educated single moms in other words if you look at only the single moms who went to Ivy League colleges and have high incomes they have high incomes are their children also more likely to be criminals compared to the compared to the average you think yes I I would make a really really large bet that they have a low criminal record I would make a really really big bet on that you really think it's going to be the same so to me that looks like brainwashing but I'll allow that you could be right since I don't have the data I will allow that you could be right on the surface it looks like brainwashing because if you think that in all situations Simply Having one parent is worse than all situations with two that's not really rational thinking but if you believe there's a strong correlation when you look at the whole thing probably yes I think it's been studied a lot but here's the thing there is a lot more going on with those single mothers than just the fact that they're single mothers whatever it is that made a man not want to be with them do I need to finish the sentence right now when I talk about the ivy league uh woman who's who chooses to be a single mother that's a choice that's somebody who said oh I can handle this I think I will choose to be a single mother do you think that's the same as somebody who couldn't get a man to live with her even if she tried there's no way those are the same there's no way and what about uh the man who left if that woman had stayed with the man who who left they would be happy and the child would do well because there's got to be something about the man who leaves and doesn't take responsibility that suggests that if he had stayed it would have been pretty bad because he doesn't take responsibility and obviously was not in love with the woman so I think our our thinking about single parenting is completely mixed up with too many other variables and if the only thing you're seeing is the Single part you're missing the biggest part of the picture I think so I think we're completely misled about what's going on there I think there's a certain type of person who's more likely to be a single mom and that that person is more likely to be a single mom is unlikely to have an Ivy League degree right there are likely to have a bunch of other characteristics in common with other single women and I think it's those other characteristics that are probably driving things now that said the best way to raise a kid I'm sure is a mother and a father I'm not sure the gender thing is so important but uh you know a two-parent situation because two is better than one yeah having two people take care of you that are adults and love you well it's got to be better than one you know if they're both functional but I think we need to look at that a little bit deeper it's too simplistic you know buried versus unmarried um Rasmussen as a poll says 48 of the uh these are usually likely voters they pull 48 say Biden's handling of classified documents is a quote major scandal what uh I'll just give you a little quiz now for those who are in You.

Tube if you're new to be I've developed the smartest live stream audience in the world and I'm going to prove it again not only do they know based on what's happening and they're smart about that they can actually see into the future and see data that hasn't even presented to them um so I'm going to ask this question and watch how cleverly they get the right answer they've never seen this information before they've never seen this before watch this what percentage do you think after the Rasmussen told them what percentage of American voters likely voters do you think say that Biden's classified document situation is no scandal at all no scandal at all you did it again amazing it's 24.

it's 24 but you know those of you who guessed 25 that was really good you know you just keep impressing me keep impressing me I don't know how you do it but uh 60 of Voters believe it's likely the information from the classified documents was used by Hunter Biden in his foreign business deals how in the world can Joe Biden win the presidency how in the world 60 percent believe that he and his son and I'm going to add that you know they must think they're working as a team sixty percent of Voters think that they're selling classified information or is likely that they're selling classified information to foreign foreign entities isn't it isn't it over how does Trump not become president you know you're you're seeing a lot of trump criticism a lot of it comes from me and I think it's deserved actually but he still has to run against someone and I think it's going to be Biden it looks like it's going to be Biden how does Trump lose like how it the the only way this goes is a rigged election am I wrong I don't see anything else that can happen except a massively rigged election because there's no way that the powers that be are going to let Trump win again I mean without at least trying really hard to influence it no matter what you say about past elections I'll just let past elections go by as a separate topic no matter what's happened in the past they're going to have to rig it this time they have to and and you know what if the Republicans lose a rigged election you know what I say totally deserve it and I will welcome our new democrat president and I will congratulate him on the whim because if the if the Republicans can't figure out how to achieve better or stop the cheating they're not very capable they're not very capable and they don't deserve to win and I see no action from the Republicans to increase the transparency of the elections so that you know if it was you I'd at this point the Republicans deserve to lose they're doing everything in their power to lose the Republicans you know basically it doesn't even look like they're trying honestly um so there's a video going around that there was a presentation at the world economic forum and everything sounds scarier when it's at the world economic forum and this was extra scary so there is now technology where you could put on some kind of a wearable device or a earbud that would monitor your brain waves and the thinking is that employers will be able to know if you're thinking about work if you're actually working and thinking about work or if your mind has wandered to your personal thoughts and they'll be able to like play back your brain waves after the fact and say all right well about three o'clock at three o'clock you were mostly just daydreaming about sex stuff I guess um now add to that that your employer can check your actual actions online they can check your keystrokes and they might even know where you are physically they might track your location so your employer will know what you're thinking and what you're doing every minute of the day roughly speaking they'll know so the thinking is that we'll become this Mass dystopia with people just hooked into the Matrix having to work all the time and all their happiness and and quality of life will be destroyed and it's all the world economic forums problem because they let somebody give a presentation in which the person who presented it said don't assume it'll be all bad it's pretty hard to hear this and then imagine it could be good in any way but let me give you some context when I got out of college I was looking for a job at a big Bank I went to work at what was Crocker National Bank at the time before Wells Fargo bought them and it was when ATMs were just being rolled out so ATMs were sort of a new thing not every bank had one yet but Crocker was ahead of the the curve do you know what the biggest debate was about ATMs do you know what the biggest controversy was this technology will be out of control it's going to steal my money and then when I complain nobody will listen to me because it's me against the computer right and all the old people said you're going to lose your Humanity because you don't get to talk to the teller you won't be able to complain blah blah now did any of those things happen a little bit but not really not really yeah I mean they happened but not to the point where it made any difference to the growth of ATMs right and by the way the the rule in Banks at the time was if you complained about the ATM stealing your money if they if they didn't see it on video like if they didn't have enough information they gave you your money if they couldn't prove it one way or the other they actually just gave you your money you know because usually it was like 100 bucks right somebody'd say hey the ATM took my hundred dollars and if they couldn't tell they just gave you the hundred dollars because there was nothing else they could do otherwise they'd have to they'd have to just get rid of ATMs now eventually the ATM you know keeps track of what it gives but it also has a video and the video would yeah pretty much prove this if it installs something from you so whenever you see a new technology that looks like it's going to end all our quality of life we've been through this cycle a lot now I will agree that this looks different AI doesn't look like anything else so anything that was in the past that looked like a pattern probably will be violated by AI but it's good to know that we've been here before we're always worrying about the next technology will be the one that ends us all and I have now an out of box an out of pocket prediction about AI you know you know how AI was going to take all of our physical Jobs first because you could build robots so the robots will take the you know the dangerous physical jobs and then later the creative jobs you know those might stay intact because it would take a long time for AI to get there it's going to be the opposite I think AI will take all the smart jobs coding psychology you know your therapist will be AI um art you know all art humor entertainment is all going to be AI do you know what people will do manual labor I think humans will be moved entirely to manual labor do you know why because it'd be cheaper than robots for a long time that's all they'll just be cheaper than robots I think the economics will be that people will be cheap and robots will be expensive so you use your expensive robots to be lawyers and doctors and by the way AI has already passed the bar and AI has passed uh what is the medical licensing it's already done that it's already more educated than you are because it's got two degrees you know even if you have one so yeah humans are going to have to do stuff like crawl under uh crawl under floors to get to Plumbing humans are going to be figuring out oh wait you know just because the wires don't touch there's also maybe rats or there's a human element yeah people just be doing manual labor now here's the interesting part do you know what makes humans happy doing manual labor it turns out it makes us very happy yeah as long as we're not working ourselves to death right you don't want to be in a slave Gap you don't want to be in uh you know the gulag but if you're just keeping busy you know you're just moving you're doing a thing you complete a task you get a dopamine for completing a task you're moving you're completing tasks it's actually really good for us so we probably will become the the manual laborers and the AI will do all the thinking for us that's my prediction so uh you know it was really uh puzzling even at this late stage is we still don't know why Sweden did so well in the pandemic it's still a mystery now there are a few things we do know about Sweden I found out and confirmed this this morning that I saw a list of the fattest countries in the thinnest countries America is one of the fattest countries in the world top three I think and Sweden is one of the thinnest one of the thinnest so I can't understand the whole pandemic situation oh and then also I found out today that Sweden is one of the youngest countries it's one of the youngest America is one of the oldest I didn't realize that America is old and fat and is one of the oldest and one of the fattest countries and Sweden is unusually young and unusually thin but you know the thing is I can't figure out how they did so well during the pandemic that's still sort of a mystery oh another thing I found out about Sweden is that because of where they're located on the planet they routinely supplement with vitamin D they I think they take like fish oil or something it's nasty but they have good vitamin D they're thin and they're younger than other countries that did poorly but if I had to guess why they did well probably Ivermectin probably Ivermectin I think could have been hydroxychloroquine or it could be because they didn't use masks as much could be that but I know I don't understand how just because they're thinner and younger and they have good vitamin D I don't see how they do well in the pandemic unless it was Ivermectin or Hydrox coli Queen what part of the story all right um there are two new studies about the vaccinations and about covid and both of them are total BS you want to hear this BS I'll tell you we I think we can agree that all the data about the pandemics sketchy doesn't matter where it comes from it's all sketchy but this is the craziest thing you've you've heard yet are you ready for this now of course these are these are pre-prints and you know who knows if they could be a repeat or anything but there are two recent studies one out in Denmark one end somewhere else that said that if you're over 50 um you actually did better if you got the vaccination than if you didn't now here's how we Analyze That we'll start with what we know for sure okay and then you this is how you reason you start with what you know and then you reason toward the things that you're trying to figure out what we know is that I got everything wrong about my decisions about the pandemic so you start with that as your fact and then we can reason backwards to conclude that both of these studies are BS because if I know I got the wrong answer it can't be true that these studies are true because that would sort of suggest I made a good decision and since we know that's not the case we start with what we know take the L I take the L L taking the L clotting and coping so we know that's true so then we can reason backwards that the studies are BS so I reject them completely for the BS that they are by the way how many of you understand that I'm accepting that I live in the simulation and that your reality can actually be real as real as anything because we're a simulation and mind can be real and opposite and there's no conflict there's no conflict if I live in a world in which everything's different than everything for you as long as it doesn't conflict right as long as we can both reproduce those two worlds can live as completely true as true as anything else no less true no more true uh have you yet watched Brett and Heather well here's something I learned that other people can do that I can't suppose uh and let's let's take as our starting points again we'll use the same technique since we know that uh Heather and brat were correct about the pandemic so we'll start with the fact that they're correct then how did you know how did you know they were correct because I'm going to accept as a fact that they were correct because they have skills now they have skills that I don't have so I can't do what they do right I could not look at data and science at the level that they could look at and I wouldn't understand it but apparently they can but my question is how did you know that they could and all the people who don't have podcasts could not like what was it that said to you the people who are good at this but also have a podcast have one point of view and the people who are I thought were good at it but for whatever reason don't have a podcast are all getting the wrong answers so was it the fact that they have a podcast that made you think that they're so good you could just take their point of view because I looked at him and I thought to myself huh I'm not sure the podcast part is actually telling me as much as it should in fact when I analyzed the um when I analyzed the uh for big Pharma I thought hey they're making money on these drugs are they completely unbiased and I said no if they're making money on a particular point of view you can't trust the point of view am I right and then I unwisely thought well hey a lot of these people who have let's say different views have podcasts and books and it appears that they're monetarizing their point of view much like the people that are criticizing now you most of you could look at that situation and say okay the podcast part doesn't count they're just really good at looking at stuff and you can tell they're good at looking at stuff but how did you do that because that's the part I can't do to me I just saw people had different opinions and I couldn't I couldn't adjudicate any of them because I don't have the skills they had if I had the skills they had I wouldn't need to look at their opinion right if I could judge whether Breton had their were correct if I could judge that it would mean I had their skills wouldn't it I would have to have at least equal or better skills to judge whether they did it because remember your dog can't judge how you do it work because your dog doesn't understand your work so he can't judge it right so I'm like the dog I'm like a dog watching Brett and Heather go to work and the only thing I say is roof ruff I'm hungry I need to go out that's all I can add to the conversation because I don't have their their skills but you do many of you have some kind of heuristic or rule of thumb that you're holding from me because nobody will explain it to me and I feel like you're doing it intentionally you know something I don't know and you're all not telling me you do how do you know that they they get the right answer like how could you judge that I'm just like the dog barking at at a computer I'm like barking at the television roof roof how do they put those pictures on the television roof roof roof that's all I have but I'm completely aware that I'm just the dog barking at the television how did you know that they were right and that so many other people were wrong now I heard you say it's because of money but even that doesn't work for me because they're all making money in their different ways how did you do it no seriously how'd you do it evolution evolutionary biology that's not an answer all right here's the other thing that I can't do and I've told you this before when I watched the documentary about Michael Jackson and the allegations against him and and children it was a hundred percent convincing and boy was it convincing um so you believe Brett and Heather because they admitted when they were wrong and that increased their credibility okay now we're talking let's work with that so would you say that people who get things wrong and then correct it are more credible than people who uh are not telling you they got anything wrong is that true and do you think scientists don't correct themselves when the data changes or they find out there's something wrong do the scientists who actually work in the field of science did they get new data and then they just say that data doesn't agree with my opinion I'll throw it out is that how other scientists work or is it possible that you saw Brett and Heather changing their minds only because you were watching them and that's how all scientists Act that the reason they're scientists is because they're going to respect the data and the process and that when something changes they change with it now I thought that regular scientists were also doing that behind closed doors and I just didn't see it whereas if you have a podcast you do it in public and then people see it and they say well that's credible because I see them doing the most normal thing that any scientist does but they're doing it in public where every other scientist in the world who does exactly the same thing change their mind when the data changes they do it behind closed doors so you can't really trust them so being on the podcast is what gives them credibility now that I hadn't thought of so just doing it in public makes you trust them because you can see them change their mind but the people who are also scientists who do that every single day because that's exactly what they signed up to do change their minds that they signed up to change their minds to find out new things and then adopt those views do you think they're not doing that Behind These closed doors that really they just keep their same opinions even when the data changes they just call themselves scientists but they're really just actors maybe crisis actors all right so that's one way so one way is that they change their mind in public what are some other ways you know they're right um and and the other people followed the money so the fact that Breton had their had one sort of business model do you think that if if Bretton had their head decided that new information showed that the vaccination was the best thing that ever happened to the world do you think that they would adopt that view which would be um reputationally and financially devastating to them so so you you trust them to the point where they would not follow the money they would be the only ones so you believe that you found the only two human who don't follow the money you do okay well that is very good vote for those two see I don't have that skill I'm still like the dog barking at the TV follow the money row row rope it's just different money following a different path to me it's everybody following the money now if you thought that Brett and Heather are especially immune from following the money what about me because you've seen me take the view that makes me the least money and you know it right you know it you know it you watch it every day you see me pissing off my audience every day intentionally do you think I do it to make money I don't know any business model where that works I'm basically being CNN right now I'm being CNN I'm trying to be balanced and it's just killing me financially it's horrible but that's what that's what Integrity looks like in case you've never seen it in case you've never seen it that's what it looks like somebody says it's my ego yeah my ego is the reason that I'm saying things that make people hate me because of my ego how do you even connect all those dots that's a lot of dots to connect dignity all right well that's enough on that the the funniest people are the people who uh tell me that they're gonna stop listening to me until I stop talking about you know the interpretation of data basically uh and I think you really think I'm not going to block you for that I block everybody who says I liked it when you did this but you know you did too much of this pandemic stuff I just block all of them so they won't have to deal with it again which I think I think is a fair that's a fair deal because the thing is that um if I only do what the complainers tell me to do this would be the shittiest experience you ever had like oh these three people told me I must do these topics but never do these other topics that's not the show you want to see do a spaces debate I've got a prediction nobody's going to want to debate me on this nobody's going to want to debate me on this yeah yeah it's never going to happen by the way what do you think would happen if Brett and I Brett Weinstein what would you think if if we were to compare notes and if we were to say all right what do you think is true and what do I think is true how different would it be how different is my current opinion from Brett Weinstein's current opinion about everything on the pandemic you think it'd be 90 different I think it would be the same it would be the same you don't think it would be the same there wouldn't be one thing we disagree on but you don't realize the idea what would happen if I debated Alex Berenson what what percentage would we disagree on here's what I think I think it would go like this I've got this information that says these vaccinations are dangerous and I would say well I don't believe any any pandemic data do you and then he would say well yeah I believe this data and I would say you live in a world in 2023 where anybody's data is credible on the pandemic and in about five minutes he would agree with me that you can't really trust any of the data right he might start that way I mean this was speculation and mind reading so it's not really fair but I'm I'm almost positive that if I talk to any of the people that you think are opposite in my opinion that I have the same opinion does that blow your mind is anybody's mind blown I don't think we'd have any difference everything that you imagined about my different opinion is completely hallucination and I've always known that you know I've always known that right that we didn't disagree the people who think they disagree with me are completely based on rumors or bad information or whatever I mean yeah I'm in 14 to 16 movies at the same time but says I don't believe you well let's test it all right let's test it those of you who think that I should have Brett correct me tell me one statement you believe he thinks is true that I think is not true go tell me one statement just a clean statement something that Brett Weinstein believes is true that I don't believe is true go yeah there's nothing there's nothing ivermected you think we have a different opinion on Ivermectin I don't know what that would be here's what I think his opinion is and you tell me you tell me if I'm wrong the Ivermectin story is uh hard to sort out because the the studies may not have focused exactly in the right place some seem to indicate in a meta-analysis that is helpful so far so far agree so far agree that these studies the show it doesn't work are sketchy the studies that show it does work are based on a meta-analysis and then I would say this to Brett but you know a meta-analysis introduces subjectivity because the person who does it gets to decide what's in and out of the study and that can and and also if one big study is bigger than the others it's really not a meta-analysis it's one study is it biases it by so much if I said that to Brett would he say no I disagree with you a medicine a meta-analysis in which one study is so big that it biases the whole meta-analysis is still really good you wouldn't say that do you know why you wouldn't say that because he's smart nobody would say that was smart and then and then uh do you think I would disagree with him when he said that the studies that say Ivermectin doesn't work are sketchy do you think I would disagree no I think all the data is sketchy with no exceptions so we would agree that all the Ivermectin data is imperfect then we would move to point two if it's imperfect should you have the right to try it knowing that the risks are low what would I say why would I say that would I disagree I'd say yes of course low risk potential upside plenty of anecdotal reports and then then Brett would agree with me the anecdotal reports are not confirmation and that the meta-analysis is not confirmation and the rcts that say it doesn't work are not super reliable so it just comes down to well I don't know if it works and I don't know if it does or doesn't but it should be legal for me to try it so where would we disagree where would we disagree see I have a theory that above a certain level of intelligence everybody agrees it just looks like we don't I don't think there's ever been a disagreement is it blowing your mind try something else that was the best you had so the best you had was something where we clearly would agree try something else something else you think that Brett believes oh Brett might say the Adverse Events justify all right let's talk about that do you think that Brett believes that the vaccinations are a bad idea for younger people yes or no would Brett say that vaccinations are a bad idea for younger people I think you'd say yes what do you think God's saying based on current information what would I say I agree I would agree what did I say during the pandemic before we had you know a little bit better information what did I say did it do you remember me saying yeah let's vaccinate those kids did you ever hear me say that have I ever suggested children should be vaccinated nope nope no so where would we disagree now here's the second question people over 50 or let's say over 65 wherever we want to do it would uh would Brett say that for people over let's say 65.

would he say that people over 65 did not receive a benefit from the shop what would he say I think he would say I don't know I think he would say the data shows that they had a higher survivability but what we don't know is any long-term consequences yes or no do you think he would say that the data shows the data is you know sketchy but the data does show the older people got a benefit on average but that there might be long-term consequences that could be catastrophic would I disagree with that would I disagree with that if that I think that's an opinion but I don't really know no I would agree with that I have agreed with that as clearly as possible so where would we disagree is your mind blown yet does it blow your mind that there's no disagreement between me and my biggest critic he's not my biggest critic but you know just for the purposes of this conversation is anybody's mind blown right now at all somebody says do you believe that data no matter how many times can I get permission to swear permission to swear all right too many knows all right the too many numbers I'm not going to do it I'll do this without swearing let me answer all of your questions there's a new study on Scott do you believe it no there's a new study out that says the opposite of study do you believe it no there's a new study that says you were right about everything Scott do you believe it what do you think I'd say now there's a study that disagrees with everything you said Scott do you believe it what do you think my answer is no try to pick up the pattern it's all no it's all no top to bottom no exceptions if it has anything to do with the pandemic it's all no no so you don't ever have to ask me again if I tell you there's a new study that says wearing masks made your penis grow do you have to ask me if I believe it no no if there's a new study that says the vaccinations actually made you smarter do you have to ask me if I believe it no no you can you can skip that step you can skip that step every time I'm not going to change my mind on this I'm just not the information is not credible at all and basically this is the same approach I've taken on climate change I think it's hilarious that the world was convinced we can measure the temperature of the world I mean I don't even need to say anything about that it's hilarious that anybody ever believed that and that we're measuring it every year and we could tell it's moving a little bit and that's the most absurd thing anybody ever believed now if I don't even believe that and that's that's basically that's accepted as you know pretty basic science that we okay we can't measure everything but we you know as long as we're consistent with the ones that we are measuring you know it's not good enough not good enough has Health Care declined and since Obamacare well health care has declined I don't know if it's because of Obamacare by the way I've heard some of the most horrific Health Care stories recently it's crazy yeah I mean I you I can't tell you the stories I've heard but there's one I heard recently I wish I could tell you but it was a failure of a health care process at a level which I didn't even think was possible I mean it was incredibly failure failure like oh my freaking God failure yeah and it happens to be my health care provider that did it so it turns out that there's something called a a patient advocate have you ever heard of that at least at Kaiser there's a patient advocate and apparently you could make things go from nothing happening to Something Happening by asking to talk to that person because things are so bad that you can't even work it out with the people you're working with you just have to uh well that's pretty good yeah anyway like an ombudsman I don't know if it's like an ombudsman I think it might be more than that all right that's all I got for now uh You.

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let me ask you a question fine people

do you believe you can tell the

difference

between good news and bad news

with your common sense

and your judgment and your instincts and

your heuristics

well sometimes it's not so clear

sometimes we can't tell the difference

between good news and bad news

for example uh California is suffering a

drought for a number of years

what would be good news

if you are suffering a drought

rain

not just rain but a lot of rain a lot of

rain in fact California got so much rain

that it made a dent in the uh

in the drought

so the news today is a

the dangerous side to this

oh yeah there's a dangerous side to not

having a drought it's that the plants

and trees will grow so quickly with all

that water

that when they inevitably dry out in the

summer

it's going to be a forest fire

catastrophe

right so the good news is the drought's

over the bad news is we'll go up in

flames and you won't be able to go

outdoors in the summer

so is there anything that Tinder can't

ruin

I'll just let that one sit there for a

while is there anything that Tinder

can't ruin

you could just fill in the rest yourself

at home

well I saw a review

um I think it was on CNN that said

there's a new show on that's apparently

a banger it's a banger

I think that's like a British word for

good

and I said to myself wow are you kidding

me there's something worth watching on

television but before I before I read

the review

before I read the review I I realized

what was going on

what does it mean in 2023

when there's a movie or a TV series

that's excellent

what's that mean it's really really good

yeah it was basically Brokeback Mountain

yeah so it had to be either Holocaust or

Brokeback Mountain had to be lgbtq had

to be a trans in there somewhere

right so I'm reading the review it's

like and the love story between these

two men oh okay I get it best best thing

that's ever been on television because

it's a love story between two men

and that's all you need to know best

thing on television ever since the

beginning of time probably win a lot of

awards

um

CNN's ratings have reached a new

nine-year low

and this is why we call Greg goffeld the

Thanos

of news

he's destroyed half of his competition

already

but that's only part of the story

um

apparently CNN notched its uh sorry uh

Megyn Kelly tweet I saw who were talking

about it and she said it got it so the

lowest ratings in nine years but it's

also the lowest rating across every

category of the day

so every hour of the day a new low

now here's the funny thing on on Twitter

you can read the comments of the X CNN

viewers and how unhappy they are do you

know why they're so unhappy

why are the CNN viewers so unhappy with

CNN

it started telling real news

not completely you know they still have

a good pocket of bias over there that

that comes out pretty obviously

but they made a concerted and I think

legitimate

move toward actual news where they

didn't just lie about conservatives

and then the people were like what

what yeah so it turns out you can't make

money

telling people the truth or or

attempting to tell them the truth you

could argue whether they get it right

but attempting to tell people a calm

objective truth

is terrible for your ratings

do you know how I know that

does anybody know how I know

that attempting to tell the truth even

if you don't do it right but attempting

to tell the truth you know that's

terrible for Ratings right

it's certainly bad for mind

now luckily I have you know a death wish

yeah that's not literal I don't have a I

don't have a literal Death Wish and by

the way I'm not planning to commit

suicide

so let me put that out there

I am not planning to commit suicide

feeling good feeling great actually

that now that I'm off my blood pressure

meds they were definitely screwed with

my mind but I want you to know I'm not

planning to kill myself

because I do think there's a reasonably

good chance I'll get murdered in the

next two years

I mean reasonable chance meaning five

percent

maybe five percent but that's you know

more than you want to worry about you

probably don't have a five percent

chance of getting murdered but I have a

five percent chance of getting murdered

for political reasons

because I I move the needle

so

anyway

um what was I talking about

I completely lost the thread

I don't know was it interesting was it

anything good

oh about the news yeah so CNN is losing

viewers because they're attempting to

tell them the truth

uh I attempt to tell the truth on my

live streams and tweeting but of course

everybody just says well that's your

truth you big old stupid liar you

gullible idiot we'll talk more about how

dumb I am later

all right uh here's a story that I swear

to God you really can't tell the

difference between parody and reality

if I didn't tell you if I had not told

you in advance that this is real

the following story would you have

believed it

right if you didn't know it was real

would you have believed this if you just

heard it in the wild I'm not even sure I

believe it but I saw it today

that the book 1984

Georgia Orwell's book famous classic the

estate has approved a request to have it

Rewritten from a woman's point of view

finally yeah

finally

finally I'll tell you I tried to read

that thing

you know I tried to read 1984. you know

I was familiar with of course but I

wanted to see if it held up and I tried

to read that thing and I was like oh my

God this book is entirely from a man's

point of view

I couldn't even finish it

there were there were no lgbtq themes

the Holocaust wasn't even mentioned not

once

um

oh maybe it was maybe it was actually I

don't remember

but you know the the biggest problem was

it wasn't from a woman's point of view

and if you could get that fixed then

that that book might have some legs

people might want to start talking about

that

well

um well I swear to God I had something

on my you know why why is it that have

you ever just tried to open an iPad

and just leave it there so you could go

back to it and it'll like just like

change his page and it'll turn off and

it was she'll come up and it'll ask for

software updates and like why can't it

just sit there

just sit there and do what the

sorry will be no cursing

there will be no cursing but I'd like to

call your attention to today's Dilbert

comic which I just tweeted

um and you may recognize this story it's

a dogbert talking to Dilbert see if you

recognize this story from the news

dogbert's reading his phone and dogberg

says the College of psychologists of

Ontario says they will pull my license

unless I surrender to a re-education

camp

dilber says you don't live in Canada and

you don't have a license to practice

and then dilber says they are oddly

aggressive for Canadians

dogbert takes a sip of his coffee and

says sounds like a mental disorder

all right do you recognize that story

yeah the College of psychologists of

Ontario has asked Dr Jordan Peterson to

come in to be re-educated

[Music]

the the best thing that ever happened to

Canadian uh psychologists

industry

is Jordan Peterson

he actually made their entire profession

look worthwhile for a change

he he took this thing that didn't have

the greatest reputation in the world you

know the the practice of psychology and

turned it into something useful for

millions of people around the world

so what do they got to do well you

better re-educate that

because sorry I just couldn't do it I

just couldn't get through it without

swearing

but I think you will agree that one that

one belonged that one belonged there

so I uh

um I had already previewed uh to Dr

Peterson that I was going to run this

comic he asked for the original

do you think I said yes

it's a trick question

it's a it's a trick question

no it's a trick question come on come on

it's me you know it's always a trick

question

yeah there's no original

there's no such thing as Originals

they're all created digitally

but I will setting up a nice copy

because uh

just wanted him to know I'm in his

corner solidly and in his fight against

the Ontario or the College of

psychologists of Ontario

and if you are not aware of this

um

I'm just guessing

just going to take a guess there's a

probably uh better than 50 chance that

the members of the College of

psychologists of Ontario have been sent

a few copies of this topic this morning

probably

I'll bet they got a few copies sent to

them how about when they opened their

email they were oh not 400 copies of

this damn thing being sent to me why do

people keep sending me this comic why

are they mocking us for this totally

reasonable uh

uh effort of ours to re-educate the only

person

who has made them look good in their

entire history

so anyway we'll we'll see if the power

of Dilbert has any any hold by the way

this will become the subject of a

lawsuit

I think

isn't uh Dr Peterson taking him to court

some kind of lawsuit about this I don't

know the details but I will tell you

that the Dilbert comic has been used in

lawsuits before in legal cases and it's

used in the sense of what should be

common knowledge

if it appears in the Dilbert comic

that's evidence that the public should

know about this that it's a commonly

understood thing otherwise it doesn't

become a comic you know I wouldn't do a

comic about something that

you know isn't real uh well I guess I

would but you know the difference

so

it could make a difference it could make

the difference because being in a

delivery comic establishes that it's

ridiculous

you get that right

like it wouldn't work as a joke

it wouldn't work unless it was

ridiculous on its own you can't take

something that makes sense and make a

joke about it by the way did you know

that

did you know you can't make a joke about

something that's just perfectly

reasonable

for example

uh

my company decided to cut expenses

because we were losing money

what can I do with that

nothing right there's no joke you can

make about somebody who does the thing

you're supposed to do

so the fact that it's in the Dilbert

comic and we can all laugh at it and

recognize it as funny and I didn't

change it much just the dog bear had to

be re-educated

the fact that they would re-educate

anybody is so ridiculous

that it just stands on its own as okay

that's just stupid

all right enough about that

um do you think that there's a phone

addiction that we have and that the

reason we check our phone so much is

that the phones are really really good

is that why we check them because

they're so addictive and they're good

that's what we all think right and it

feels that way when I use my phone it

feels addictive

so it's perfectly reasonable to assume

that's what's going on let me throw out

another possibility

have you ever been with somebody you

really enjoyed being with

and then you know she hadn't looked at

your phone in hours

does that ever happened to you

if you're with people or even just one

person and you're really happy with what

you're doing you don't even think about

using your phone

so here so here's the provocative new

Theory

phones are not awesome

they're not addictive

people got worse

people started sucking so badly that

spending time with them is just painful

but my phone never disappoints me

when was the last time you looked at

your phone and it did not give you a hit

you know it's like my best dealer ever

I'm like I need a hit of you know hit us

some chemicals here

scroll scroll scroll good okay

scroll Scrolls

all right I'm happy now

I've said this a lot but I think that

our changing preferences

have made us all terrible to each other

in the early days nobody had much of an

interest outside of what they were doing

you know locally

so you know at the end of the day how's

your how are your crops oh my crops are

good how are your crops I mean we

basically had common references and you

know people enjoyed each other

because that's what they had

and now I think people are so picky

about what they like and don't like you

put any two together and there's so much

they disagree on

because there's so much they think about

and there's so many different ways to

look at everything that we end up being

like two porcupines who can't hug

you know it's like

although I guess porcupines do reproduce

you ever wonder how porcupines reproduce

let me turn it into a joke it's already

a joke I'm stealing this joke

how do yeah all right you've already

heard the joke

how do porcupines reproduce very

carefully very carefully

all right

I'm just putting that out there were you

aware that the biggest cause of

depression and suicide

among the youth is lack of sleep

did you know that

I heard this as a data that if you look

at lack of sleep it tracks directly to

depression and suicide not not too

surprising right so lack of sleep is the

number one cause

of suicide and depression

what causes lack of sleep in 2023 only

the phone and you know screens just

screens

so I'm gonna go all the way here

I think social media should be illegal

for minors

American social media and Tick Tock and

everything else

now Tick Tock should be banned in

America but the other ones you know

they're American companies and I think

they should stay for adults but I think

that minors should not have access to

social media after 9 pm

what do you say after 9 pm no access to

social media but my first choice is to

ban it completely for young people I

don't think young people should have

access to any social media

it's not like we don't know that it's

dangerous

let me ask you this

let's say uh big Pharma came up with an

idea

and the idea was they were going to have

you look at

look at screens every night and you can

do it as long as you want you could stay

up all night if you want

and then they do a study this is big

Pharma right just a hypothetical and

they do the randomized control trial and

they find out that the people who use

their screens at night lose sleep and

end up being depressed and suicidal

the people who do not use the screens

have just normal lives and they're

better

so would the government approve that

product from Big Pharma

if if social media have been tested in a

randomized controlled trial before

anybody had access to it and of course

you can't do it would it be legal

I don't think so

no I think the health impact especially

on children I think the health impact of

social media would have made it banned

if it had been a drug

and the reason that we don't call social

media a drug is because we're stupid

bucket people

humans are stupid bucket people

everything has to be in a bucket what

are you conservative because are you

conservative or a liberal let me get my

bucket oh you're in between no you can't

be in between nobody's in between

get in your bucket

right so as soon as you say that drugs

are are a pill or a injection

then you say okay that's drugs we'll

treat drugs this way we get all these

rules for what a drug is and then

somebody invents social media which is

clearly a drug

all right I won't even listen to an

argument on this point

social media is a drug

that's just administered in a different

way

instead of a needle or a pill that just

goes in through your eyes

as images

but it's absolutely a drug

and the fact that we don't treat it the

way we treat the things that we test and

do randomized control trials has nothing

to do with whether we should or whether

it makes sense has nothing to do with

the logic the reasoning the priority is

nothing to do with that has only to do

with the fact that we reflexively put

things in buckets

and our our medical bucket just doesn't

have screens in it

and that's it we put screens in the

entertainment bucket when it should have

been in the medical bucket

nobody there's not one person arguing

the point

there's not a single person here who

will argue that point yeah it's a

digital narcotic

right

you you tell me

if if we had considered social media

drug

it would not pass

government approval it wouldn't even

come close

not even close

I've heard more people I heard Bill

Marshay the other day that he can't

watch a movie anymore

because they're too long and boring

compared to the quick he had a social

media

I don't know if you talk about other

people or about himself but he made the

point now who was the first person you

heard say that

I think I'm the first person you've ever

heard say that that you that movies are

dead

you'll never be able to watch a movie

again unless you're with somebody it's

more about being with the person

yeah

yeah

so I was ahead of the curve on that I

guess

um

so U.S news

uh the periodical the publication U.S

news every year they do uh ranking of

Colleges and Schools I guess they do

graduate schools and medical schools and

stuff like that yeah they're having a

trouble uh ranking medical schools

because some of some of the medical

schools are resisting

being ranked on their usual standards

and they say that they won't even

contribute information to the rankings

unless

their diversity and Equity successes are

included in their ranking

what do you think of that

would you like would you like colleges

to be ranked in part the quality of the

school the quality of the school not

just the fairness

but the quality of the education that's

what's being ranked not fairness but the

quality of the education and they're

saying that the quality of the education

is better when you've got more diversity

and equity and inclusion

what do you think of that

do you think you get a better education

if there's more diversity

you're all racist

you totally get a better education if

there's more diversity you're off record

racist

and I mean that literally

yeah I'm sorry I just have to say that

to your screen faces

now if the only variable is different if

the only variable that's different is

diversity it's all positive

uh do you disagree

because the diversity does give you more

access to more points of view

so if everybody's equally qualified

that's a benefit

really you don't think that's a benefit

if everybody's the same qualifications

you don't think diversity gives you more

points of view more access more windows

to look through you know more more

understanding better bedside manner

perhaps because you you understand

people better no it's unambiguously good

all right well you could argue that

point but here's my point

it's the way they get there

is sacrificing Merit

then does everybody think that's good

if you were to de-prioritize Merit to

get more equity and more diversity is

that is that still good

well yeah there's a crossover point

right so you're getting something from

diversity and I'm I'll argue that to the

death

um because simply because I've been in

those environments whenever I'm in an

environment where there's more diversity

I'm absolutely picking up more

understanding there's just no way to

argue that you can't argue that

but if you give up Merit

here's what I think we need to do

I think I would like to know if my

doctor got one of those uh Equity

degrees or one of those Merit degrees

don't you think we should make a

difference

would you like to know oh doctor I see

you have a degree did you get one of the

equity types or one of the Merit types

now this will never happen of course

but there are so many things that could

be solved by truth and labeling right if

the only thing I'm asking for is truth

and labeling

why would that be a problem

let the free market decide if they think

that somebody who went to a sort of

equity priority School

got more out of the equity and the

diversity because there is a lot to get

there

then they gave up on maybe a little bit

you know in the rankings of their

academics yeah maybe it's not that big a

deal you know maybe it's a small tweak

to to the uh Merit to get a lot more

diversity

you can make that argument

but I would certainly like as a consumer

to know the difference

I I want to know

was equity and diversity a big deal at

the school you went to

and did that have anything to do with

the fact that you made it through

or was it Merit only

so

so today I have a uh a doctor who is a

woman and

she's brown of some type I've never

asked all right so she's a person of

color some kind of a brown whatever

and she's a woman

I have never once

thought that she was there for any

reason other than Merit

never even occurred to me

never once in my mind did I say ooh I

wonder if she only got through medical

school because of you know her her never

once never thought and she's a great

doctor I like her a lot

but what happens in five years if the

doctor's coming out or coming out of you

know Equity priority College I'd kind of

want to know

I mean I might not make a different

decision I might make the same decision

like I'd like to know a little truth and

labeling would be nice

uh speaking of

Dr Jordan Peterson

he is creating an alternative W World

economic forum

and I guess it would be uh Pro energy

that's cheap so that poor people can

have access to the energy and pro

families and monogamy

now here's my big problem with

Dr Peterson's philosophies of life

he's big on family and monogamy

and

I absolutely agree with him that that is

the best system for a stable world

but only maybe for 25 of people and

that's the problem in the old days maybe

it was better for a higher percentage I

don't think I really don't think more

than 25 percent of the public is going

to make a marriage work for the rest

it's probably a bad idea and I don't

know what to do about that it could be

that his approach is the best which is

if you don't push as hard as possible

and the thing you know works

you're in trouble

yeah I get that boy that makes sense and

I do agree

that if you get the right two people and

you put them in the monogamous marriage

it is the best

I I think that that's just sort of

obviously true you know you can see it

in a lot of ways

but let me ask you this question

I'm gonna put on my skeptic hat for a

moment

do we all agree that single moms

uh produce children who have the most

criminal records would you agree

that that correlation seems to be really

clean

you don't agree

I'm not saying it's causation I'm saying

the correlation

would it be easier if I just say

correlation

because the causation is what I'm going

to question next

all right so here's my question

is it also true of college educated

single moms

in other words if you look at only the

single moms who went to Ivy League

colleges and have high incomes

they have high incomes are their

children also more likely to be

criminals

compared to the compared to the average

you think yes

I I would make a really really large bet

that they have a low criminal record

I would make a really really big bet on

that you really think it's going to be

the same

so to me that looks like brainwashing

but I'll allow that you could be right

since I don't have the data I will allow

that you could be right on the surface

it looks like brainwashing because if

you think that in all situations Simply

Having one parent is worse than all

situations with two

that's not really rational thinking

but if you believe there's a strong

correlation when you look at the whole

thing probably yes I think it's been

studied a lot

but here's the thing

there is a lot more going on with those

single mothers than just the fact that

they're single mothers

whatever it is that made a man not want

to be with them

do I need to finish the sentence

right now when I talk about the ivy

league uh woman who's who chooses to be

a single mother

that's a choice

that's somebody who said oh I can handle

this I think I will choose to be a

single mother

do you think that's the same as somebody

who couldn't get a man to live with her

even if she tried

there's no way those are the same

there's no way

and what about uh the man who left

if that woman had stayed with the man

who who left

they would be happy and the child would

do well because there's got to be

something about the man who leaves and

doesn't take responsibility

that suggests that if he had stayed it

would have been pretty bad

because he doesn't take responsibility

and obviously was not in love with the

woman

so I think our our thinking about single

parenting is completely

mixed up with too many other variables

and if the only thing you're seeing is

the Single part

you're missing the biggest part of the

picture

I think

so I think we're completely misled about

what's going on there I think there's a

certain type of person

who's more likely to be a single mom

and that that person is more likely to

be a single mom is unlikely to have an

Ivy League degree

right there are likely

to have a bunch of other characteristics

in common with other single women

and I think it's those other

characteristics that are probably

driving things

now that said

the best way to raise a kid I'm sure

is a mother and a father

I'm not sure the gender thing is so

important but uh you know a two-parent

situation because two is better than one

yeah having two people take care of you

that are adults and love you well it's

got to be better than one you know if

they're both functional

but I think we need to look at that a

little bit deeper it's too simplistic

you know buried versus unmarried

um

Rasmussen as a poll says 48 of the uh

these are usually likely voters they

pull 48 say Biden's handling of

classified documents is a quote major

scandal

what uh

I'll just give you a little quiz now for

those who are in YouTube if you're new

to be

I've developed the smartest

live stream audience in the world

and I'm going to prove it again

not only do they know based on what's

happening and they're smart about that

they can actually

see into the future and see data that

hasn't even presented to them

um so I'm going to ask this question and

watch how cleverly they get the right

answer they've never seen this

information before they've never seen

this before watch this

what percentage do you think after the

Rasmussen told them what percentage of

American voters likely voters do you

think say that Biden's classified

document situation is no scandal at all

no scandal at all

you did it again

amazing

it's 24.

it's 24 but you know those of you who

guessed 25

that was really good you know you just

keep impressing me keep impressing me I

don't know how you do it

but uh 60 of Voters believe it's likely

the information from the classified

documents was used by Hunter Biden in

his foreign business deals

how in the world

can Joe Biden win the presidency

how in the world 60 percent believe that

he and his son and I'm going to add that

you know they must think they're working

as a team

sixty percent of Voters think that

they're selling classified information

or is likely that they're selling

classified information to foreign

foreign entities

isn't it isn't it over

how does Trump not become president

you know you're you're seeing a lot of

trump criticism a lot of it comes from

me and I think it's deserved actually

but

he still has to run against someone

and I think it's going to be Biden

it looks like it's going to be Biden

how does Trump lose

like how it the the only way this goes

is a rigged election

am I wrong

I don't see anything else that can

happen except a massively rigged

election because there's no way that the

powers that be are going to let Trump

win again

I mean without at least trying really

hard to influence it

no matter what you say about past

elections I'll just let past elections

go by as a separate topic

no matter what's happened in the past

they're going to have to rig it this

time

they have to

and and you know what if the Republicans

lose a rigged election you know what I

say

totally deserve it

and I will welcome our new democrat

president and I will congratulate him on

the whim because if the if the

Republicans can't figure out how to

achieve better or stop the cheating

they're not very capable

they're not very capable and they don't

deserve to win and I see no action from

the Republicans to increase the

transparency of the elections

so that you know if it was you I'd

at this point the Republicans deserve to

lose

they're doing everything in their power

to lose the Republicans you know

basically it doesn't even look like

they're trying honestly

um

so there's a video going around that

there was a presentation at the world

economic forum and everything sounds

scarier when it's at the world economic

forum

and this was extra scary so there is now

technology where you could put on some

kind of a wearable device or a earbud

that would monitor your brain waves and

the thinking is that employers will be

able to know if you're thinking about

work

if you're actually working and thinking

about work or if your mind has wandered

to your personal thoughts

and they'll be able to like play back

your brain waves after the fact and say

all right well about three o'clock

at three o'clock you were mostly just

daydreaming about

sex stuff I guess

um

now add to that that your employer can

check your actual actions online they

can check your keystrokes and they might

even know where you are physically

they might track your location

so your employer will know what you're

thinking and what you're doing every

minute of the day

roughly speaking they'll know

so the thinking is that we'll become

this Mass dystopia

with people just hooked into the Matrix

having to work all the time and all

their happiness and and quality of life

will be destroyed and it's all the world

economic forums problem because they let

somebody give a presentation in which

the person who presented it said

don't assume it'll be all bad

it's pretty hard to hear this and then

imagine it could be good in any way

but

let me give you some context

when I got out of college I was looking

for a job at a big Bank

I went to work at what was Crocker

National Bank at the time

before Wells Fargo bought them

and it was when ATMs were just being

rolled out

so ATMs were sort of a new thing not

every bank had one yet but Crocker was

ahead of the the curve do you know what

the biggest

debate was about ATMs do you know what

the biggest controversy was

this technology will be out of control

it's going to steal my money and then

when I complain nobody will listen to me

because it's me against the computer

right and all the old people said you're

going to lose your Humanity because you

don't get to talk to the teller

you won't be able to complain blah blah

now did any of those things happen

a little bit but not really

not really yeah I mean they happened but

not to the point where it made any

difference to the growth of ATMs right

and by the way the the rule in Banks

at the time was if you complained about

the ATM stealing your money

if they if they didn't see it on video

like if they didn't have enough

information

they gave you your money if they

couldn't prove it one way or the other

they actually just gave you your money

you know because usually it was like 100

bucks right somebody'd say hey the ATM

took my hundred dollars

and if they couldn't tell

they just gave you the hundred dollars

because there was nothing else they

could do otherwise they'd have to they'd

have to just get rid of ATMs now

eventually the ATM you know keeps track

of what it gives but it also has a video

and the video would yeah pretty much

prove this if it installs something from

you

so whenever you see a new technology

that looks like it's going to end all

our quality of life we've been through

this cycle a lot

now I will agree that this looks

different AI doesn't look like anything

else

so anything that was in the past that

looked like a pattern probably will be

violated by AI

but it's good to know

that we've been here before we're always

worrying about the next technology will

be the one that ends us all

and I have now an out of box an out of

pocket prediction about AI

you know you know how AI was going to

take all of our physical Jobs first

because you could build robots

so the robots will take the you know the

dangerous physical jobs

and then later the creative jobs you

know those might stay intact because it

would take a long time for AI to get

there it's going to be the opposite

I think AI will take all the smart jobs

coding

psychology you know your therapist will

be AI

um

art you know all art humor entertainment

is all going to be AI

do you know what people will do

manual labor

I think humans will be moved entirely to

manual labor

do you know why because it'd be cheaper

than robots for a long time

that's all they'll just be cheaper than

robots I think the economics will be

that people will be cheap and robots

will be expensive so you use your

expensive robots to be lawyers and

doctors

and by the way AI has already passed the

bar and AI has passed uh what is the

medical licensing it's already done that

it's already more educated than you are

because it's got two degrees you know

even if you have one

so yeah humans are going to have to do

stuff like crawl under uh

crawl under floors to get to Plumbing

humans are going to be figuring out oh

wait

you know just because the wires don't

touch there's also maybe rats or there's

a human element yeah people just be

doing manual labor

now here's the interesting part

do you know what makes humans happy

doing manual labor it turns out it makes

us very happy

yeah as long as we're not working

ourselves to death right you don't want

to be in a slave Gap you don't want to

be in uh you know the gulag but if

you're just keeping busy

you know you're just moving you're doing

a thing you complete a task you get a

dopamine for completing a task you're

moving you're completing tasks it's

actually really good for us

so we probably will become

the the manual laborers and the AI will

do all the thinking for us

that's my prediction

so uh you know it was really uh puzzling

even at this late stage is we still

don't know why Sweden did so well in the

pandemic

it's still a mystery

now there are a few things we do know

about Sweden I found out and confirmed

this this morning

that I saw a list of the fattest

countries in the thinnest countries

America is one of the fattest countries

in the world top three I think and

Sweden is one of the thinnest

one of the thinnest

so I can't understand the whole

pandemic situation oh and then also

I found out today that Sweden is one of

the youngest countries it's one of the

youngest America is one of the oldest

I didn't realize that

America is old and fat and is one of the

oldest and one of the fattest countries

and Sweden is unusually young and

unusually thin

but you know the thing is I can't figure

out

how they did so well during the pandemic

that's still sort of a mystery oh

another thing I found out about Sweden

is that because of where they're located

on the planet

they routinely supplement with vitamin D

they I think they take like fish oil or

something it's nasty but

they have good vitamin D

they're thin and they're younger than

other countries that did poorly but if I

had to guess why they did well

probably Ivermectin

probably Ivermectin I think

could have been hydroxychloroquine

or it could be because they didn't use

masks as much

could be that

but I know I don't understand how just

because they're thinner and younger and

they have good vitamin D I don't see how

they do well in the pandemic unless it

was Ivermectin or Hydrox coli Queen

what part of the story all right

um there are two new studies

about the vaccinations and about covid

and both of them are total BS

you want to hear this BS

I'll tell you we I think we can agree

that all the data about the pandemics

sketchy doesn't matter where it comes

from it's all sketchy but this is the

craziest thing you've you've heard yet

are you ready for this now of course

these are these are pre-prints and you

know who knows if they could be a repeat

or anything but there are two recent

studies one out in Denmark one end

somewhere else that said that if you're

over 50

um you actually did better

if you got the vaccination than if you

didn't

now

here's how we Analyze That

we'll start with what we know for sure

okay and then you this is how you reason

you start with what you know

and then you reason toward the things

that you're trying to figure out what we

know

is that I got everything wrong about my

decisions about the pandemic

so you start with that as your fact

and then we can reason backwards to

conclude that both of these studies are

BS

because if I know I got the wrong answer

it can't be true that these studies are

true because that would sort of suggest

I made a good decision and since we know

that's not the case we start with what

we know take the L I take the L

L taking the L clotting and coping so we

know that's true so then we can reason

backwards that the studies are BS

so I reject them completely

for the BS that they are

by the way how many of you understand

that I'm accepting that I live in the

simulation

and that your reality can actually be

real

as real as anything because we're a

simulation and mind can be real and

opposite

and there's no conflict

there's no conflict if I live in a world

in which everything's different than

everything for you as long as it doesn't

conflict

right as long as we can both reproduce

those two worlds can live as completely

true as true as anything else no less

true no more true

uh have you yet watched Brett and

Heather well

here's something I learned that other

people can do that I can't

suppose uh and let's let's take as our

starting points again we'll use the same

technique since we know that uh

Heather and brat

were correct about the pandemic

so we'll start with the fact that

they're correct

then how did you know

how did you know they were correct

because I'm going to accept as a fact

that they were correct because they have

skills

now they have skills that I don't have

so I can't do what they do right I could

not look at data and science at the

level that they could look at and I

wouldn't understand it

but apparently they can but my question

is how did you know that they could

and all the people who don't have

podcasts could not

like what was it that said to you

the people who are good at this

but also have a podcast

have one point of view and the people

who are I thought were good at it but

for whatever reason don't have a podcast

are all getting the wrong answers so was

it the fact that they have a podcast

that made you think that they're so good

you could just take their point of view

because I looked at him and I thought to

myself

huh I'm not sure the podcast part

is actually telling me as much as it

should in fact when I analyzed the um

when I analyzed the uh for big Pharma

I thought hey they're making money on

these drugs

are they completely unbiased and I said

no

if they're making money

on a particular point of view you can't

trust the point of view am I right

and then I unwisely thought well hey a

lot of these people who have let's say

different views have podcasts and books

and it appears that they're monetarizing

their point of view

much like the people that are

criticizing

now you most of you could look at that

situation and say okay the podcast part

doesn't count they're just really good

at looking at stuff and you can tell

they're good at looking at

stuff

but how did you do that

because that's the part I can't do

to me I just saw people had different

opinions and I couldn't

I couldn't adjudicate any of them

because I don't have the skills they had

if I had the skills they had I wouldn't

need to look at their opinion

right

if I could judge whether Breton

had their

were correct if I could judge that

it would mean I had their skills

wouldn't it

I would have to have at least equal or

better skills to judge whether they did

it because remember your dog can't judge

how you do it work

because your dog doesn't understand your

work

so he can't judge it

right so I'm like the dog

I'm like a dog watching Brett and

Heather go to work

and the only thing I say is roof

ruff

I'm hungry I need to go out

that's all I can add to the conversation

because I don't have their their skills

but you do

many of you have some kind of

heuristic or rule of thumb that you're

holding from me because nobody will

explain it to me and I feel like you're

doing it intentionally

you know something I don't know

and you're all not telling me

you do how do you know that they they

get the right answer like how could you

judge that I'm just like the dog barking

at at a computer

I'm like barking at the television roof

roof how do they put those pictures on

the television roof roof roof that's all

I have

but I'm completely aware that I'm just

the dog barking at the television

how did you know that they were right

and that so many other people were wrong

now I heard you say it's because of

money but even that doesn't work for me

because they're all making money in

their different ways

how did you do it

no seriously how'd you do it

evolution evolutionary biology that's

not an answer

all right here's the other thing that I

can't do

and I've told you this before when I

watched the documentary about Michael

Jackson and the allegations against him

and and children

it was a hundred percent convincing and

boy was it convincing

um

so you believe Brett and Heather because

they admitted when they were wrong

and that increased their credibility

okay now we're talking let's work with

that

so would you say that people who get

things wrong

and then correct it are more credible

than people who

uh are not telling you they got anything

wrong

is that true and do you think scientists

don't correct themselves when the data

changes or they find out there's

something wrong do the scientists

who actually work in the field of

science

did they get new data and then they just

say that data doesn't agree with my

opinion I'll throw it out

is that how other scientists work or is

it possible

that you saw Brett and Heather changing

their minds only because you were

watching them

and that's how all scientists Act

that the reason they're scientists is

because they're going to respect the

data and the process and that when

something changes they change with it

now I thought that regular scientists

were also doing that behind closed doors

and I just didn't see it

whereas if you have a podcast

you do it in public and then people see

it

and they say well that's credible

because I see them doing the most normal

thing that any scientist does but

they're doing it in public

where every other scientist in the world

who does exactly the same thing change

their mind when the data changes they do

it behind closed doors so you can't

really trust them

so being on the podcast is what gives

them credibility

now that I hadn't thought of

so just doing it in public

makes you trust them because you can see

them change their mind

but the people who are also scientists

who do that every single day because

that's exactly what they signed up to do

change their minds

that they signed up to change their

minds to find out new things and then

adopt those views

do you think they're not doing that

Behind These closed doors

that really they just keep their same

opinions even when the data changes they

just call themselves scientists but

they're really just actors

maybe crisis actors

all right so that's one way so one way

is that they change their mind in public

what are some other ways you know

they're right

um

and and the other people followed the

money

so the fact that

Breton had their

had one sort of business model

do you think that if if Bretton had

their head decided that new information

showed that the vaccination was the best

thing that ever happened to the world

do you think that they would adopt that

view

which would be

um reputationally and financially

devastating to them

so so you you trust them to the point

where they would not follow the money

they would be the only ones

so you believe that you found the only

two human who don't follow the money

you do okay well that is very good vote

for those two

see I don't have that skill

I'm still like the dog barking at the TV

follow the money row row rope it's just

different money following a different

path

to me it's everybody following the money

now

if you thought that

Brett and Heather are especially immune

from following the money what about me

because you've seen me take the view

that makes me the least money and you

know it right you know it

you know it

you watch it every day you see me

pissing off my audience every day

intentionally do you think I do it to

make money

I don't know any business model where

that works I'm basically being CNN right

now I'm being CNN I'm trying to be

balanced and it's just killing me

financially it's horrible

but that's what that's what Integrity

looks like

in case you've never seen it

in case you've never seen it that's what

it looks like

somebody says it's my ego

yeah my ego is the reason that I'm

saying things that make people hate me

because of my ego

how do you even connect all those dots

that's a lot of dots to connect

dignity

all right

well that's enough on that

the the funniest people are the people

who uh tell me that they're gonna stop

listening to me until I stop talking

about

you know the interpretation of data

basically

uh and I think you really think I'm not

going to block you for that

I block everybody who says I liked it

when you did this but you know you did

too much of this pandemic stuff I just

block all of them so they won't have to

deal with it again

which I think I think is a fair

that's a fair deal because the thing is

that

um

if I only do what the complainers tell

me to do this would be the shittiest

experience you ever had

like oh these three people told me I

must do these topics but never do these

other topics that's not the show you

want to see

do a spaces debate

I've got a prediction

nobody's going to want to debate me on

this

nobody's going to want to debate me on

this

yeah

yeah it's never going to happen

by the way what do you think would

happen

if Brett and I Brett Weinstein what

would you think if if we were to compare

notes and if we were to say all right

what do you think is true and what do I

think is true how different would it be

how different is my current opinion

from Brett Weinstein's current opinion

about everything on the pandemic

you think it'd be 90 different

I think it would be the same

it would be the same

you don't think it would be the same

there wouldn't be one thing we disagree

on

but you don't realize the idea

what would happen if I debated Alex

Berenson

what what percentage would we disagree

on

here's what I think

I think it would go like this

I've got this information that says

these vaccinations are dangerous

and I would say well I don't believe any

any pandemic data do you

and then he would say well yeah I

believe this data

and I would say

you live in a world in 2023 where

anybody's data is credible on the

pandemic and in about five minutes he

would agree with me

that you can't really trust any of the

data

right he might start that way I mean

this was speculation and mind reading so

it's not really fair but I'm I'm almost

positive that if I talk to any of the

people that you think are opposite in my

opinion

that I have the same opinion

does that blow your mind

is anybody's mind blown

I don't think we'd have any difference

everything that you imagined about my

different opinion is completely

hallucination and I've always known that

you know I've always known that right

that we didn't disagree

the people who think they disagree with

me are completely based on rumors or bad

information or whatever

I mean yeah I'm in 14 to 16 movies at

the same time

but says I don't believe you

well let's test it all right let's test

it those of you who think that I should

have Brett

correct me tell me one statement you

believe he thinks is true that I think

is not true go tell me one statement

just a clean statement something that

Brett Weinstein believes is true

that I don't believe is true go

yeah there's nothing

there's nothing

ivermected you think we have a different

opinion on Ivermectin

I don't know what that would be

here's what I think his opinion is and

you tell me you tell me if I'm wrong

the Ivermectin story is uh

hard to sort out because the the studies

may not have focused exactly in the

right place

some seem to indicate in a meta-analysis

that is helpful

so far so far agree

so far agree that these studies the show

it doesn't work are sketchy

the studies that show it does work are

based on a meta-analysis and then I

would say this to Brett but you know a

meta-analysis introduces subjectivity

because the person who does it gets to

decide what's in and out of the study

and that can and and also if one big

study is bigger than the others it's

really not a meta-analysis it's one

study is it biases it by so much if I

said that to Brett would he say no I

disagree with you a medicine a

meta-analysis in which one study is so

big that it biases the whole

meta-analysis is still really good

you wouldn't say that

do you know why you wouldn't say that

because he's smart nobody would say that

was smart

and then

and then uh do you think I would

disagree with him when he said that the

studies that say Ivermectin doesn't work

are sketchy do you think I would

disagree no I think all the data is

sketchy with no exceptions

so we would agree that all the

Ivermectin data is

imperfect

then we would move to point two if it's

imperfect

should you have the right to try it

knowing that the risks are low what

would I say

why would I say that

would I disagree

I'd say yes of course

low risk

potential upside

plenty of anecdotal reports

and then then Brett would agree with me

the anecdotal reports are not

confirmation

and that the meta-analysis is not

confirmation

and the rcts that say it doesn't work

are not super reliable

so it just comes down to well I don't

know if it works and I don't know if it

does or doesn't but it should be legal

for me to try it

so where would we disagree where would

we disagree

see I have a theory

that above a certain level of

intelligence everybody agrees it just

looks like we don't

[Laughter]

I don't think there's ever been a

disagreement is it blowing your mind

try something else

that was the best you had so the best

you had was something where we clearly

would agree

try something else something else you

think that Brett believes

oh Brett might say the Adverse Events

justify all right let's talk about that

do you think that Brett believes that

the vaccinations are a bad idea for

younger people

yes or no

would Brett say that vaccinations are a

bad idea for younger people I think

you'd say yes what do you think God's

saying

based on current information what would

I say

I agree

I would agree what did I say during the

pandemic before we had you know a little

bit better information what did I say

did it do you remember me saying yeah

let's vaccinate those kids

did you ever hear me say that

have I ever suggested children should be

vaccinated

nope nope

no so where would we disagree

now here's the second question

people over 50 or let's say over 65

wherever we want to do it

would uh would Brett say

that for people over let's say 65.

would he say that people over 65

did not receive a benefit from the shop

what would he say

I think he would say I don't know I

think he would say the data shows that

they had a higher survivability

but what we don't know

is any long-term consequences

yes or no

do you think he would say that

the data shows the data is you know

sketchy but the data does show the older

people got a benefit on average

but that there might be long-term

consequences that could be catastrophic

would I disagree with that would I

disagree with that

if that I think that's an opinion but I

don't really know

no I would agree with that

I have agreed with that as clearly as

possible

so where would we disagree

is your mind blown yet

does it blow your mind that there's no

disagreement between me and my biggest

critic he's not my biggest critic but

you know just for the purposes of this

conversation

is anybody's mind blown right now at all

somebody says do you believe that data

no matter how many times can I get

permission to swear

permission to swear

all right too many knows all right the

too many numbers I'm not going to do it

I'll do this without swearing

let me answer all of your questions

there's a new study on Scott do you

believe it no

there's a new study out that says the

opposite of study do you believe it

no

there's a new study that says you were

right about everything Scott do you

believe it

what do you think I'd say

now

there's a study that disagrees with

everything you said Scott do you believe

it

what do you think my answer is

no

try to pick up the pattern

it's all no

it's all no top to bottom no exceptions

if it has anything to do with the

pandemic it's all no

no

so you don't ever have to ask me again

if I tell you there's a new study that

says wearing masks made your penis grow

do you have to ask me if I believe it

no no

if there's a new study that says the

vaccinations actually made you smarter

do you have to ask me if I believe it

no

no you can you can skip that step you

can skip that step every time

I'm not going to change my mind on this

I'm just not the information is not

credible

at all

and basically this is the same approach

I've taken on climate change

I think it's hilarious

that the world was convinced we can

measure the temperature of the world

I mean I don't even need to say anything

about that

it's hilarious that anybody ever

believed that and that we're measuring

it every year and we could tell it's

moving a little bit and

that's the most absurd thing anybody

ever believed

now if I don't even believe that and

that's that's basically that's accepted

as you know pretty basic science

that we okay we can't measure everything

but we you know as long as we're

consistent with the ones that we are

measuring you know it's not good enough

not good enough

has Health Care declined and since

Obamacare well health care has declined

I don't know if it's because of

Obamacare

by the way I've heard some of the most

horrific Health Care stories

recently

it's crazy

yeah

I mean I you I can't tell you the

stories I've heard but

there's one I heard recently I wish I

could tell you

but it was a failure of a health care

process at a level which

I didn't even think was possible

I mean it was incredibly failure failure

like

oh my freaking God failure yeah and it

happens to be my health care provider

that did it

so it turns out

that there's something called a a

patient advocate have you ever heard of

that

at least at Kaiser there's a patient

advocate

and apparently you could make things go

from nothing happening to Something

Happening by asking to talk to that

person

because things are so bad

that you can't even work it out with the

people you're working with you just have

to

uh

well that's pretty good

yeah anyway

like an ombudsman I don't know if it's

like an ombudsman I think it might be

more than that

all right that's all I got for now uh

YouTube I'll talk to you tomorrow

and maybe I'll be right about something

tomorrow but not today bye for now

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