Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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but I googled and I think it is true. Did you know that ice cream is highly recommended for people with dementia? How many people know that? The ice cream specifically. Ice cream is highly recommended for people with dementia. Apparently what it does is if your dementia is causing you to get worked up and angry about stuff which is the most common or one of the most common side effects of having…

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in which Nicki said that her cousin's friend's testicles swelled up after getting the vaccination and it made him impotent, not impotent, made him unable to have children and caused his planned wedding to be cancelled.

Now there are many funny things about this story and I don't know where to begin. Number one as some doctors pointed out Nicki Minaj I think you just outed your cousin's friend for having chlamydia because that's what makes your balls swell up. And that may be.

But it made me wonder what would be the side effect if this is actually a side effect of the vaccination now. And let me remind you if a billion people get a vaccination someone in that billion people is going to get swollen balls the next day. Not necessarily because of the vaccination but if a billion people do anything somebody's going to have something happen the next day. It doesn't matter what it is. You'll have everything that could happen somebody's going to have it.

So the fact that one guy's balls got bigger after a vaccination doesn't mean it was caused by the vaccination. But on average wouldn't you expect, I don't know how they measure this exactly, but on average wouldn't you expect that the people who did get the vaccination and were not afraid of it on average wouldn't they have bigger balls? Because they're the ones who were not afraid of the vaccination. So the people who are not afraid on average wouldn't they have bigger balls? What? No it doesn't work that way. Don't hate me it's just a joke.

So there's the other funny thing is that Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend with the swollen testicles, I know a little bit about him. I did some research. Turns out he wanted to be famous. He wanted to be famous. And by the way if you go over to the Locals platform you can see it fine. He wanted to be famous but he fell a little short so instead all right you I'll just turn off YouTube.

So he, this guy with the swollen balls wanted to be famous but only his balls are. And so that is the story of Nicki Minaj's cousin's balls.

Now if you wanted people to take the vaccination and you want to persuade them what would be a good way to do it? Well one way to do it is to tell people that COVID itself would make your balls shrink. If I heard that there was any chance at all that COVID would make my balls shrink what are the odds that I would go get that vaccination? Pretty good. Pretty good. Because I would take a 100% chance of dying but I wouldn't take a 100% chance of my balls shrinking. Am I right?

Now I know that's not logical. I'm not saying it's rational but men, men back me on this. You would take a one in 100 chance of dying if it meant doing a sport or doing something you like but would you take a one in a hundred chance of your balls shrinking? Now you might not. So persuasion-wise, yeah persuasion-wise telling people that COVID would shrink your balls, it's not true as far as I know, but if you could tell people that and make them believe it they'd probably go get the shot.

All right I gotta go do some other things and I will talk to you later. Sorry about the YouTube thing. Thorium doesn't need a water supply. Yeah China's testing in the Gobi Desert. Excellent. Hope it works out and I will talk to you all tomorrow.