Back to episode — Episode 1561 Scott Adams - Talking About All the Media Manipulation and the Landslide Coming in 2022
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And they better stay away because there's nothing more scary than somebody who's crazy. And I will go to crazy right away. If somebody big tried to hurt me, I would go to crazy and I would just stay there. I would never leave crazy because that's what it takes. If that's what it takes to win prisoner island, I'm going to do it. So the moral of prisoner island is I'm going to do what it takes. No…
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Now, see if you had a different opinion or a different experience personally. Whenever I talked to anybody smart enough to have a reasonable opinion on that question privately, every one of them said, oh yeah, that could be engineered and you wouldn't know the difference. All of them. Everybody privately who had any qualifications said yeah, you could do that and nobody would know the difference. Now I don't have any qualifications and I knew that. Do you know how? Because it's obvious. It's obvious. All you'd have to do is experiment with mixing and matching and evolving from species to species until you got one that looked really bad. And if you looked at it on a microscope, it would look like it evolved naturally. Nobody would know that you goosed the evolution with selective breeding and whatever you're doing to make them mutate.
So if I know that, what's up with every expert who went on television and told you that's not a thing? I don't know anything about viruses and I know that you could at least mess with them to make them mutate and then see what they did. You don't have to be an expert to know that, right? So I mean that's the amount to which we are being bamboozled by this stuff is just shocking. However bad you thought things were, they're probably worse than that.
Well, and Kerry went to that climate summit and I guess the climate summit people are all happy because they made some kind of a big agreement to reduce carbon. But toward the end I guess India said, you know what would be better than saying we're going to get rid of coal? Let's say we're going to phase it out because we don't want to say we're going to get rid of it. We'll just phase it out because phasing it out is sort of nonspecific so you can just keep using coal. So I'm not sure that they got the big win. But basically Kerry said that we're on the right track now. So Kerry basically said he did such a good job and the other people did such a good job flying over there in their private jets to talk about what we could possibly do to reduce the CO2. And they said they did a good job and we're on the right track now. So climate change is solved.
It's kind of a dicey situation, isn't it? If you're the climate change guy, you can either say I went there and I failed or you could say I went there and succeeded and it's not a problem anymore. We fixed it. I think he said something suspiciously close to we fixed it. So he says we did. Realize that, Scott didn't. What are you talking about?
All right. So whenever I see this comment "we did realize that Scott didn't," I know you're an idiot, right? I don't even know what you're talking about. I don't even know the topic but I know you're wrong. So tell me what it is you realize that I didn't and I'll tell you how you're wrong, okay? You want to play that game? I don't even know the topic and I already know you're wrong because of the way you put it.
Okay, I'm not going to say anything on that.
All right, so I think we're in pretty good shape there. Our biggest problem now is that we've damaged all the children into thinking they have no future because climate change is going to kill them. Can't kill them. Kill them hard.
All right, here's a tweet by Doc Anarchy MD, also known as Dr. Anarchist, a very good follow on Twitter if you like to see the contrarian views on a lot of the pandemic stuff. And he tweets this. He says if you're supplementing vitamin D without getting any sunlight, you may as well be taking a sugar pill. Agree or disagree? If you're supplementing vitamin D, just taking a pill, it's a waste of time if you're not also getting sunlight. Agree or disagree? Agree or disagree?
I see lots of disagreements. I see lots of agreements. I'll tell you what I think I know but I would need a fact check on this, right? So I'm not your doctor. So this is what I think I know and this is based on what I learned during the pandemic about vitamin D. Apparently you can't go outside and get enough vitamin D. Did you know that? It's not even a thing. So the thing that everybody is advising you, including Dr. Anarchy, it isn't a thing. Did you know that? You all believe that you could go outside and get your vitamin D from the sun. It's not a thing. Now I'm exaggerating. I'm exaggerating. Here's what I mean by it's not a thing. The only time it works is in some climates in some months.
I live in California, probably the sunniest place you could possibly live. And I can only get enough vitamin D by going outside maybe three months a year. How many of you knew that? That if I just went outside every day in the winter, even in California where the sun's out, there's no clouds, I would not get anywhere near my vitamin D level. Do you know that? How many of you knew that you can't get it by going outside? Can't even get close, right? And here's the important part. You can't get close. I'm not saying you get 80%. I'm saying we're nowhere near it. Right now let's say that's not good enough. So you realize that the sun isn't always good enough.
Now in the summer, in the summer in California, yes. And in other places they probably have a month or two where yes. But there are entire zones of the world where there isn't any time you can go outside. If you live in Sweden, can you go outside and get vitamin D? If you live in Sweden, can you get vitamin D by going outside? Well, you get some but nowhere near what you need. And that's why the people who live in Sweden and nearby, they supplement with cod liver oil. That's my understanding. So culturally it's a very common thing to supplement with cod liver oil or some other kind of vitamin D.
Now let's say you live in America or somewhere else and you just go to the store and you buy some vitamin D in a package and you take your vitamin D and it's just off the shelf. How good is that vitamin D? If you take a lot of it, I don't want to say what a lot is, but let's say you take something on the larger size of a safe dose, whatever safe is, is that going to help you? Is that going to give you the vitamin D you need? Nope. In the hospitals they don't give you a pill because it doesn't work. You know they're going to put you on a drip because apparently that does work. But they're not going to give you a pill. It just doesn't work.
Here's another mind blower. You know your vitamins and your supplements that you take once a day? Why do you take vitamins once a day? Does anybody know why you take vitamins once a day when there are so many other medicines you might take twice a day or four times a day? Yeah, the answer of why you take vitamins once a day has nothing to do with effectiveness. It's marketing. They tell you to take it once a day so you remember it and it turns it into a habit. Because if you take it once a day, you usually match it with your brushing your teeth, don't you? Do most of you match your vitamin taking with your teeth brushing? Because that was what the marketing was intended to do. Because if you think oh, once a day and it's in my medicine cabinet while I'm brushing my teeth twice a day, you know, there we go.
So everything you knew about vitamins is probably wrong. Years ago I tried to start a company in which I was going to make a vitamin and a vitamin-fortified product called a dill burrito. So a burrito with various flavors but they'd be so fortified that if you only ate that burrito you'd have enough of everything for the day. And then anything else you ate would be bonus. But you'd have everything you need if you did one burrito. Do you know it was impossible to do that? It couldn't be done.
And when I studied, can you get enough vitamins and minerals from just a good diet? Do you know you can't come close? How many of you knew that? If you have a really good diet, you just, let's say it's a Mediterranean, pick whatever's your best diet, one that's got lots of nuts and vegetables and green leafy vegetables and you're eating lean protein, you're doing everything right. How close do you get to the daily recommended vitamins and minerals? Does anybody know? With a perfect diet, how close do you get to your recommended vitamins and minerals? Maybe 30%. That's it. You don't get close.
If you do the math of what you eat and then what vitamins are in there because it's usually on the packaging or you can look it up and then compare that to what the government says you need, it's not even close. You cannot eat a balanced meal. Now go to your doctor and say should I take a multivitamin? What's your doctor going to say? Well it depends. But your doctor might say no, you don't need a multivitamin if you're eating a good balanced meal. Is that true? Well it might be true that you don't need it, which is a separate question from can you get anywhere near the recommended minimums. You can't. There is no such thing as eating a good diet that gets you to the vitamins and minerals that you need. You can't get there. Not even close. Do the math yourself. You could prove it to yourself. You know I did the math.
So very much like vitamin D, we have this myth that you can get it. Do you know how you can get more vitamin D? Neither do I. Neither do I. Do you know how you can get enough vitamins and minerals in the right kind of usable form? Beats me. I don't think it's possible. I don't think there's any way to do it because the supplements don't make that much of a difference and a good diet doesn't get anywhere near it. So can you get all your vitamins and minerals? I don't think so. Can you get all the vitamin D you want? As far as I know, no. There isn't any way to do it unless you're hospitalized and then you can, right?
So some of these things that we just take for granted are just, it's sort of like that don't go swimming within an hour of eating. How many of you still believe that it's dangerous to go swimming within an hour of eating because you'll get cramps? Do any of you still believe that's true? Because it's been debunked. But yeah, I mean when I grew up that would seem to be true even though it was obviously not true because we always ate and went swimming. We never got any cramps. It was pretty obvious that it wasn't much of a risk.
All right. I found a new way to determine who the NPCs are. You know the non-player characters, the people in our environment assuming we are a simulation and not a real society, which I think is fair. The odds are we're a simulation. How do you tell who are the NPCs and who are actually avatars that are in the game? Well I don't know, but I'm looking for tells. And here's one of them.
Some of my critics keep telling me that I have a flaw and that when the data changes I sometimes change my opinion. And they say this in public. They say it in public that when I change my opinion based on the data itself changing or having new data, that that's a flaw in me. That I should keep my same opinion no matter what we learn. And they say this right out loud, right in public. Now they can't be real people, can they? How could they possibly be real people? They have to be NPCs. They must be programmed with some limited number of responses and that's just one of the limited responses. Because nothing that
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could think independently would have that opinion, right? All right, here's another one. My critics keep telling me that I'm wrong when I make a statistical prediction. If I say something's like 75% chance of happening and then it doesn't happen, people say you were wrong. That might be an NPC situation too. Because if I say there's a 75% chance of something happening and it doesn't happen, that…
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