Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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out that Moderna, you know of course they created one of the mRNA vaccines, they're going to start human trials for an HIV vaccine because it uses the same technology. So I guess everything we learned about HIV after 37 years of studying it made us smart enough to create the mRNA platform for the pandemic. But then what we learned in the pandemic made us smart enough that we could circle back and…

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they dissolved. And people were able to make new friends that maybe they could not have penetrated before. There's something about the pandemic that rebooted the social structure of the kids because they lost their friends during the pandemic or they modified their friend group. And now they're going back almost like it's new because you can get really locked out of a group. But what I'm being told is that everybody's being more welcoming than they normally had been.

So here's some advice for your kids. Do you have any kids in school? Here's the advice, more for the teens. Go make some friends. Go talk to some people who wouldn't have talked to you two years ago. Everybody seems to be more open and it might be a limited window where everybody's just a little more flexible because they're just so damn happy to see other people. So go make some friends. You'll never have — if you're a tee

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nager your whole life you'll never have a better time to make a friend. This could be the best time to make a friend. All right, Jeffrey Toobin. So you may remember I might be the only person who gave a full-throated defense of Jeffrey Toobin's job when he got in trouble for his little Zoom masturbation thing. I said let's not make that a career-ending thing. Let's just call that a human moment.…

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