Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ou know one will say that the sky is blue, the other says the sky is orange. And they'll just be at the same time about the same data as if we can't tell the difference. And we can't. I actually don't know sometimes what's true. But I've started to block the skeptics who have been so wrong for so long. You know I say this often but the people who are doubting the official narrative are patriots a…

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maybe freedom of speech a little bit too much. You know you don't want the government putting too much pressure on freedom of speech. But truth and labeling is good. Telling us when there's a legitimate danger. I will still watch it or not watch it. I still have a choice. You're not taking my right to watch it away.

But what if CNN and the other, I just used CNN as my example, you could apply this to all the news stations, what if they had to run a little notice that said consuming news from only one source or one cluster of sources, because you know what that means, you know only the left, only the right, or one cluster of similar sources, can cause brain damage and make you less capable of functioning as an adult? Wouldn't that be useful? Imagine consuming the news with a warning before it that they just have to run that says much of this news is unlikely to be true. Because unfortunately much of the news turns out later to not be true. But does the public know that? I don't think the public knows that. I think some of the public knows it but let's put a warning label on the news. And I would put it on all the news. I wouldn't discriminate and say it's just CNN or MSNBC. You'd have to do it on all of them. That's my take.

So I guess there was some big UFC fight last night. I'm not really, I don't really follow the sport. And the reason I don't follow it is I'm just not a fan of any sport that guarantees brain damage for lots of people. I guess that's my theme today, brain damage. And you know I'm sensitive to the argument that it's a free country and people can take wh

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atever risks they want. But I really don't understand this one. Like I don't understand how you can watch people get brain damage as entertainment. I've watched some pretty bad things as entertainment but I can't watch people getting brain damage as entertainment. I watched a clip yesterday and I don't know if this was the fight or it was the fight before the fight but there were two female comba…

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