Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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e kneeling for anything. But I don't think I can stand for a government. And I realize the national anthem is not the government per se, but you get the point. You know that our national symbols, they have two purposes. One is to unite the country, but the other is it gives us a protest focus. So they're kind of handy in two direct directions that way. And personally, I don't want to show respect…

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ou know why it's a last name that I can't say in public? Because the last name is spelled S-I-R-I, and if I say his last name, it will activate all your iPhones. So I can't say it. But somebody named Aaron with the last name that's an iPhone digital assistant, he tweets this. That the FDA, now this is the FDA is asking this. This is a key part of the story. The FDA is asking a federal judge to grant it until the year 2076 to fully release Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccination data.

What? I have to read that again. The FDA is asking a federal judge to grant it until the year 2076 to fully release Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine data. You, the FDA is corrupt. Obviously, if you had any doubt, you don't have any doubt now, do you?

I have said from the first, and again this was a personal opinion, that the benefit of the doubt or maybe the presumption would be in favor of the vaccines being safe. The presumption, without definite knowledge, but my personal presumption was that the vaccines were probably safe enough. This changes my assumption, my presumption. It changes my presumption. I think this information, you would have to presume it's unsafe or less safe than they're telling you. Let me be clear. I'm not going to say unsafe. That would be too strong because the evidence doesn't suggest that. But it does suggest that it's less safe than reported. Are you with me?

Why would they hide information if it's good? Can you think of any reason? Well, there are two reasons to hide information if it's good, right? The two reasons to hide information: one is it's bad, so you don't want people to know. But the other is that it's not bad but people might mistakenly think it is. Now that's the case with Trump's tax returns. We don't know if Trump's tax returns show something bad, and I really doubt it because, you know, it gets audited. He's got professionals doing stuff. But there's a hundred percent chance people would think it was bad because it's complicated and they don't understand taxes. There would be something there. So the good reason not to release good news is that the good news can be embarrassing because people will misinterpret it. But that wouldn't be a problem until 2076. You could just wait five years. You know, if the problem was people would misinterpret the data, just wait two years, right? Because then the pandemic's mostly over. Five years to be safe.

But if you make it 50 plus years to release this, you have to assume they're hiding bad news. What else could you assume? Now I'm going to give them a little bit of safety. It is entirely possible that the government lied to you in what they thought was your best interest. Here would be an example of what that would look like. It could be that the vaccines are more dangerous than has been represented, but you're still better off country-wise getting them. Not individually. Individually, you know, all bets are off. But it might be better for the country even if everybody knew these were more dangerous than reported. It's possible. But does your country, your government, have the right to lie to you for your own benefit? They could do it. Obviously they can do it, get away with it. But do they have the right to do that? No, no they don't. They don't have that right. And for this, the government should fall. The FDA needs to answer to this. And if they can't answer for it, the government needs to fall. This is a government-ending thing right here. If you lie to the public this badly, even for good intentions. Yeah, and I don't know if it was bad intentions by anybody. But if you lie this badly, the government has to be replaced.

And by the way, I have no belief that things would have been different under Trump because it's the FDA, right? It's not really the president who's doing anything on this, I don't think. Not yet. So this probably would have been the same. The FDA probably would have acted the same under Trump. This isn't even political.

Next topic. The U.S. has reached 100,000 deaths from overdoses. 75 percent of them are some big numbers from fentanyl. Now that's the way the news is reported, but of course the news is reported incorrectly. Here's a way to correctly report this story. The real story is China worked with Mexican cartels to murder over 60,000 Americans just this year, and our government did almost nothing about it. Again. Now when I say again, I mean Trump did almost nothing about it. I mean he was catching stuff at the border a little more aggressively, maybe. I don't know. And he talked to China and China did nothing. So that's as close to nothing as you can get. I give Trump a failing grade on fentanyl, and I give Biden a failing grade as well. But I give the news an extra failing grade because they're not even reporting the story right.

The story is China is murdering 60,000 Americans a year through the cartels. They send the drugs to the cartels to get into this country, and our government isn't doing a thing about it. That's the st

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ory. The story is we're being murdered by tens of thousands and our government isn't doing a thing about it. The government has to fall. The government has to fall on just this topic. And by the way, I would say the same thing about Trump. I think if we had gone this long and Trump hadn't done a thing about fentanyl, I'd want him replaced too. Just to be clear, no politics involved here. No politi…

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