Back to episode — Episode 1251 Scott Adams - Wuhan Lab Allegations, the Coup Persuasion Success, and my Pineal Gland
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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…
← Previous segment →, 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 entire job is to fool people, well you're not really smart. So you have two intelligence agencies on opposite sides of the story and neither of them have any credibility. So what do you do with that? I'm planning to ignore it and you can make your own decision. But I would say this is a story about no information. Hello, the breaking headline is today we have no credible information on anything whatsoever. That's the news. If you're interpreting it as, hey I think I just found out something about Wuhan, uh no. We don't live in a world where you can trust our intelligence agencies on this kind of question at all. Like zero is exactly the right amount of trust. Which doesn't mean it's not true, by the way. If you think I'm saying it's not true then it escaped from the lab or it's not true that it was cultured, I don't know. I don't have an opinion on that. But I know I can't trust anybody else's opinion that I know.
All right. So it looks like New York City is canceling their contracts with the Trump Organization for their iconic Central Park skating rink and something else in retaliation over the MAGA mob Capitol riot. What is the unintended consequence of people punishing the Trump business for something they didn't like about Trump's role as president? Doesn't that pretty much guarantee that you don't get business people running for president anymore? Let me ask you, if I ran for president, should I expect that my income would go up or down? You already know the answer to that. It would go down. Anybody who already has some established kind of a business would be crazy to go into politics watching what happened to Trump. Now if Trump had gone through his term and simply been loved or hated in whatever degree, you know he was, and then they just said okay but now you go back to your private industry and that's just separate, just do what you want to do, that would be fair. But the moment you make it acceptable, I mean New York City's government is doing this in public and bragging about it. They're not, it's not like
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it's undercover or anything. They're actually publicly punishing him for his political actions in his business. Is that the standard you want? Why would anybody successful run for president if their business will be punished because of their decisions? Remember half of the country is going to hate whatever you do. Why would you go into a situation where half the country is going to put you out of…
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