Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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is accurate, but what's the fake part? Where's the fake news? Come on, you know. You know where it is. Nobody? Really? I thought this would be easier. All right, let me tell you. It's not the day one efficacy that anybody cares about. Am I wrong? Who is really obsessing about day one efficacy? It's not a day one efficacy story. It's a how fast does it wear off story. Am I wrong? The story is how…

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a recorded interview so I could have a proper two-screen situation without technical problems. And that's posted now on YouTube. So just search for, if you just search for Bjorn Lomborg and my name, it'll pop right up. And you really should take the time. You should take the time. Look at the other comments. You'll see that people enjoyed it a lot. And very similar in, let's say, in theme to a lot of things you see from Michael Shellenberger. Sort of the smarter way to look at climate and nuclear energy and stuff like that. But Lomborg's been saying this for, I don't know, a long time. He's been on this for a long time. And he's just a great explainer. So if you want to see somebody who understands statistics and business and risk management, you gotta see Lomborg, right?

So I don't like — let me say this as clearly as possible. I don't really enjoy interviewing other people because the fun part is when I'm talking. But I'm also completely aware that you're not in it for my fun. You know, you don't watch this because I'm having fun. You're looking for some benefit for yourself, quite naturally. And it does seem to me that especially the author interviews — let me get — can I give some career advice? Let me take a pause here. I need some career advice, and this is serious. This is serious. Questions. Career advice.

I don't love interviewing authors because of the homework. You kind of have to read the book, right? I mean, you don't have to, but it's a reasonable courtesy and expectation, especially if it's a recorded interview and you're just going to do that with the author. You kind of got to read the book. So reading books and then in

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terviewing people is, I don't know, 10 times harder than what I like to do every day, which is this. I don't know if you can tell, but I would do this just for fun. Literally, literally this experience is just purely fun for me. But the author interviews take more concentration and work. However, I think they're more useful. All right, here's the part that I can only say in public because I have…

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