Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 26, 2026
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next one knows. They can't do it. I think it's done. I mean I think this might put a damper on things. You should expect a series of Dilbert cartoons focusing on the CEO getting woke and what that does to profits within Dilbert's company. So we'll see a little bit of that. Not in the same topic, the wokeness, but I'll come up with some analogous wokeness that doesn't get me in trouble. We got so…

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It doesn't look like a real story to me.

Now I want you to all remember that I'm making this prediction because I've been making it since the Cuban neuro weapon story, that it's completely fake news. There is no neuro weapon being aimed at our diplomats or our soldiers. That's my prediction. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But I'm going to be spectacularly wrong. But I'm not wrong until you see the weapon, right? If you don't see the weapon, you got a little bit of a Bigfoot situation. Why can't we ever get a good picture of the weapon?

I've told you there's a trap called the skeptic's trap, which I just gave a name to. And it is that once you become known as that skeptic on whatever the topic is, you have a great incentive or pressure to just keep being that skeptic even if the information is no longer supporting your skeptical claim. And I feel like this is a trap that is going to happen to a lot of our coronavirus skeptics even if they're right about some stuff.

So skeptic Dr. Naomi Wolf got booted off of Twitter temporarily. So Naomi Wolf got booted off Twitter for tweeting about a study that she claimed came out of Stanford, which she claimed was peer-reviewed, in which the study claimed that masks don't work. So you say to yourself, "Wait a minute, that sounds pretty good. Stanford study, peer-reviewed. Wow, we finally have proof that masks don't work." Except it wasn't reall

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y Stanford and it wasn't peer-reviewed and it's completely non-credible. So totally debunked. And I think — I'm not positive, but I think this is probably the same thing that Steve Cortes got bumped off of Twitter. He's back, but I think he might have gotten bumped off because of the same fake study. So there is a fake study that says masks don't work. It's attributed to Stanford. They had nothin…

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