Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

, right? Coronavirus just made us rethink every assumption, which was a really bad pandemic. But what is the unintended consequence, if you will, of rethinking every assumption? It's really good. It's really, really good. Like really, really so good you can't even wrap your head around it. The pandemic is nothing but bad in terms of what it's doing to us at the moment. But making us rethink from s…

← Previous segment →

created by humans, right? So it's at the very least modified. Now that would be new information, right? It's something that we suspected. It's not something that's ever been confirmed. But just to make it interesting, Great Britain is saying it's not true. So Britain says it is not a credible source of intel and that they don't believe that it has shown that it is a cultured virus or that it even came from the Wuhan lab. So you've got, allegedly, we haven't seen it yet, but this is the reporting that Mike Pompeo will say we have new evidence that Wuhan was the source of the leak and that they had cultured the virus. So it was at least partially man, human modified, let's say, less sexist. And Great Britain says, their intel people say that's not true. So who are you going to believe? So you've got our intel agencies in stark contrast to the British intel agencies. So who do you trust? Which one of them is the credible one? Neither. Neither. Our intelligence agencies aren't credible for this kind of story. There might be some kind of things for which our intelligence agencies are credible by its nature, I suppose. But this isn't one of them. If your own intelligence agency tells you something like this and there's no source and there's no document they can show you, I wouldn't trust it. This is weapons of mass destruction all over again. There is zero credibility to the Mike Pompeo story unless you see it with your own eyes. If Mike Pompeo goes on TV or whatever and says we have secret intelligence information that I can't share with you

Context —

, it means nothing. You should put zero credibility on that. Now what about Great Britain? If I'm saying there's zero credibility, am I agreeing with Great Britain and therefore Great Britain is the credible one? No, no. Great Britain's intelligence agencies are not credible. Not even a little bit. In fact their job is to fool people. If you're taking as your model of credibility somebody whose en…

Next segment → →