Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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stery. I believe that lockdowns and social distancing were being used as a similar thing. I don't believe there's evidence that lockdowns work but I do believe that distance works. Because you could have lockdowns or no lockdowns and still do plenty of social distancing. So I think the problem is that Donald was probably, and I think this is true, he was looking at lockdowns not working. Which I t…

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ople are magnetized such that they could put a key on their forehead and it would just stay there. And I don't have to tell you that there apparently is no way that the vaccinations actually magnetize you.

So but this was a doctor, right? Do you know what people tell me all the time? Scott you're not an expert in this field. Don't give us your stupid cartoonist opinion because you're no expert. Why can't you be like a doctor? If you were a doctor we'd listen to you. Well the doctor says you could be magnetized by a vaccination. Now this is obviously not representative of doctors in general but you've got to be careful about believing your experts. Just saying. If you're believing experts just sort of automatically because they're experts, don't do that.

Another case in point. Two members of the FDA have quit from an advisory panel because a drug got approved for Alzheimer's that they think should not have been approved. So if you're believing the experts do you believe the experts who quit because they were so angry that something got approved they called it a sham process? Like their accusation is that it was approved before it was even looked at. In other words it was sort of pre-approved in people's minds and they basically just approved it without looking at the data or something. This is a pretty big claim from experts.

So now you've got one expert saying that vaccines will magnetize you. Two experts saying, and these are high-level experts. This is one of these guys who quit, David Knopman. He's a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. He's a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. They don't hire jerks, right? In the Mayo Clinic they probably look at your resume before they hire you. This is a qualified guy. Disagrees with the other experts.

Have I told you before that once you understand how narcissism is not just feeling you're great but narcissism is a constellation of specific behaviors that apparently applies to entire news networks? CNN has a personality now collectively which is narcissism.

And let me give you an example. So one of their analysts, Stephen Collinson, who is one of my favorites to read, I read almost everything he writes and it's only because it's such a blatant propaganda. You know it's an opinion piece so opinion pieces look like propaganda but he's always humorously so far into the ridiculous that I read it for entertainment. And that's not a joke. It always entertains me because it's just so over the top.

Let's see. Here's what he says. So Collinson says the most extraordinary feature of Biden's trip is that he's not an American president going out to confront tyranny abroad. That's happened before. He's huddling with U.S. allies at a moment when the greatest threat to democracy comes from within the United States.

What? The greatest threat to democracy comes from within the United States? From where? Now I assume he's talking about the January 6th riot and the belief that white supremacists are climbing everywhere. But one of the characteristics of narcissism that's in this constellation of behaviors is projection. Projection: blaming somebody of the thing you're guilty of.

What is the biggest threat to democracy in the United States in your opinion? So if you don't count the external world, and of course this is just crazy talk. Obviously China

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is the biggest threat. But if you take out the rest of the world and you're looking at the greatest threat to democracy that comes from within, what do you think it is? I think it's the fake news isn't it? I'm pretty sure it's the fake news. Because if we had real news we'd make good decisions. We'd keep our democracy. We might even make it stronger. But if you have fake news you're doing the wron…

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