Back to episode — Episode 1485 Scott Adams - All the Fake News and Propaganda You're Watching Right Now
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always is? It shouldn't be. You think that it would be science alone that would determine whether you need a booster for the Moderna. But as long as the economics say you do need one, is there any chance it won't happen? It feels like it's just guaranteed by the fact that they'd make more money and they control the data. If you control the data and you would make billions of dollars if you show th…
← Previous segment →rts and they show studies and let's say they refer to science. They're not just making it up, right? They're referring to science. They say that the storms are more frequent and the climate change is being used as the explanation. No sources? No, they do have sources. They have sources. So how do you know it's fake news? I'm going to be real disappointed if you don't get this. Come on. I'm looking at all your comments here and maybe I missed it. Somebody's gonna say it. Come on. Okay, you're close. Complex systems. Single variable. Yeah, you're close. All right, you're getting close. It's the dog not barking. It's what they didn't say.
All right, so here's what they did say. The storms are more frequent. More frequent. What's left out? Strength of the storm. Yes, the strength of the storm is left out. Why do you assume that the strength of the storm is the same? Maybe not, right? There could be more of them but less. How about what period of time are you measuring this storms being more frequent? Do you know that? Is it hundreds of years of storm reporting? No, because we've only been tracking hurricanes in a useful way since the 70s. So when we say there are more storms, we're really talking about this tiny, tiny little sliver of history between the 70s and now. You know, in geological terms it's just a blink of an eye. So could you say that climate change is the cause when you're looking at such a sliver of time? Feels like anything can happen in a sliver just by chance, right?
So that's one thing. And then here's the other thing that's being left out. Come on, tell me another gigantic thing, gigantic for understanding the topic, that's left out of the statement that the storms are more frequent. What is being left out besides the severity of the storm and the strength? Something else is being left out. Thank you. Death count. Exactly. Our ability to mitigate against danger is really, really good now compared to what it used to be. The number of people who are killed by hurricanes in the modern times, it's still tragic but you're talking about a handful. You talk about a handful of people dying from a hurricane in modern times, whereas a hurricane could wipe down a city 100 years ago. So if you're looking at what is the problem, well the problem isn't exac
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tly that there are more frequent storms. You have to put in all the other variables or else it's obviously fake news. So I'm going to call it fake news because they leave out the obvious things. You put in it and then that same story that they linked to as their source for their claim, they show an animation of what Charleston, the city of Charleston, would look like under a number of scenarios o…
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