Back to episode — Episode 1048 Scott Adams - Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms
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I don't know. I can't explain those two feelings. I'm just going to have to be happy with having two conflicting feelings. It's like, no, don't do that. Well, I'm glad you did. I'm up to 500,000 followers, a little bit more. You might call that half a million. Oh, there was something. If you didn't see the videos of the wide shots of all the fireworks going off in L.A. last night, you have to lo…
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There was an article in The Guardian about magic mushrooms, you know, psychedelic mushrooms. And once again, there just continues to be mounting anecdotal and other evidence that psychedelic drugs, and mushrooms being one of them, helped people with PTSD. Now given the enormity of PTSD, especially last night, how many people got triggered last night who had military experience? Probably a few.
And we know that the psychedelic mushrooms almost certainly, I would say at this point, the odds of these being effective medically without much of a downside, it's close to a hundred percent. You know, when we talked about hydroxychloroquine, and I still put the odds of that at thirty percent that it's going to make a big deal even though some of the studies say yes. So that's just so you can gauge my level of certainty. Hydroxychloroquine, lots of evidence and still I say I had thirty percent chance that that's really something important. But with the psychedelic mushrooms, I think it's closer to a hundred percent because it's just so universally true.
If you gave hydroxychloroquine to ten people and nine of them said that just made all the difference, you'd probably stop studying it. You know, if it was that obvious that it made a difference we wouldn't even be studying hydroxychloroquine. We would just say, all right, we just gave it to everybody, nine out of ten people got better, you know, now or after they got it. And psychedelic mushrooms are sort of like that. You know, one trip and people say, you know, I think I solved that problem. And it's so consistent.
The fact that the United States keeps that illegal, so it's hard to experiment with even in this country, so researchers can't do what they need to do because of government regulations. If Kanye ran on the platform of getting rid of these weird drug laws, I don't know, he would probably win. But the president should
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get rid of those anyway. Did you see the article in The New York Times suggesting that offices might need to spray bleach all over their equipment? Have you heard that? Yeah, the New York Times is reporting that because the World Health Organization is saying that the virus stays airborne for a while, they might have to spray bleach all over your computers and your electronics every day in the of…
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