Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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ternal politicians campaigning for a candidate. Do you think it helps? Do you think people think that makes a difference when the celebrities and the external candidates are helping out? Well, most people say no, but shockingly 30 percent say it's important or somewhat important. The celebrities and outside politicians help campaign. Now I don't think I've ever been influenced by a celebrity endo…

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a garbage study. And Andres Backhaus is also warning us it's going to fall apart. So if you're worried about young boys having a little heart risk with the vaccination, the first thing you should do is compare it to the risk of getting COVID itself. Because I think it was Scott Gottlieb, ex-head of the FDA, who is now calling this an endemic, meaning you're gonna get it. You get that, right?

So we used to think, well, maybe we could keep some people from getting COVID. Nope, not anymore. Apparently you're all going to get it. It's just a matter of when. Maybe you won't this year, could be five years from now, but it's gonna be around. You're all going to get it. And if that's the case, then you have to compare the vaccination to getting COVID. Not a percentage chance of getting COVID. You're not at a 10 percent chance of getting COVID, but you're going to get COVID.

So now if you know you're going to get it, even though there would be a timing difference, you can basically now compare the risk of heart problems from COVID versus the risk of heart problems from the vaccination. It turns out that COVID is worse. So at the moment I would say there is zero credible evidence that young boys have extra risk. Zero credible evidence. It could still be true, right? Because when I talk about credibility, that doesn't mean true or false. That just means do you have evidence that's the kind of evidence that should convince you or not? We don't have the kind of evidence that should make you make a different decision based on that factor. Maybe later we will, but we don't now.

All right, there are two things we know for sure. And I tweeted this, and I'm going to read it because I tweeted it so well that I can't improve upon it. So I'm just going to read it. I said there are two things we know for sure. Number one, we must use good science and good data to make decisions. Absolutely. Number two, we know for sure we wouldn't recognize good science and good data if it showed up at ou

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r door with three IDs and made us scream its name while asking us for its home address. I'll just let that sit there for a moment. Now here's a humor writing lesson. You ready? Humor writing lesson. What makes this sentence funny? We wouldn't recognize good science and good data if it showed up at our door with three IDs and made us scream its name while asking us for its home address. What make…

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