e COVID and not the vaccination or the vaccinations and not the COVID? We don't, right?

So the point is that these big numbers are simply the people we know died. It's not the people we know died because of the vaccination. If a lot of them actually had COVID that's pretty questionable. Now am I telling you that these vaccinations are safe? No, no, don't hear that. Remember this is not the show that goes binary. Things are not all good or all bad. Sometimes things can be a little good and a little bit bad. That's the theme of this live stream anyway. And you should not believe that these numbers display an actual number of deaths. It could be but it's unlikely. It's unlikely. It's very unlikely, like deeply unlikely. As in if you have to bet your own money against it you should definitely bet against it. So who knows, who knows. But don't believe that this data has been proven in some kind of a fact and that the numbers are giant. That's just not the case.

All right, let's talk about Dr. Peter McCullough who was on Joe Rogan's show. I think he's been on Fox. He's been on Laura Ingraham's show. And he's one of the doctors who has a, let's say, a contrarian view about some pandemic-y vaccination-y stuff. How many of you are familiar with Dr. McCullough and would find him a credible voice? Go. How many find him incredible and are familiar with him? On the locals we're seeing just a wall of yeses. One maybe don't know but yes, yes, yes, very credible. Over on YouTube I'm seeing yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. One no. Talk to your individual doctor. Good advice. I mean how do you know your individual doctor is the smart one? Very. All right. So almost universally you would consider him credible, right? Good. Excellent. I was hoping you'd say that because here's the part where things get interesting.

Okay, here's my opinion about his credibility. I don't know. I don't know. How would I know? Like if he says a bunch of doctory smart sounding things, how would I know if it's true? No, I have no way to know. I could check his facts as people said. But what have I told you about doing your own research? Does that work? I've never seen it work. It never works. Do you know when it works? I'll tell you when. Doing your own research works in a very limited, very limited situation. Doing your own research works if your name is Andres Backhaus and you have a PhD in economics. If that's the case for you, do your own research probably tells you something you didn't know. But for the rest of us, and I include myself in this category, no, we can't do our own research. That's ridiculous. We'll just confuse ourselves. We'll just find the things that agree with us and come out of it thinking we proved it. It's just a confirmation bias thing.

So many of you said, Scott, Scott, Scott, you are showing some doubt about this doctor but you didn't do your own research and you didn't even listen to him. And that both of those things are true. I listened to clips but I didn't listen to the whole thing. So can I be confident about his credibility if I haven't listened to his whole thing? I've only listened to a little bit and I'm not an expert and I haven't done my own research. You know how confident can I be in my opinion? What do you think?

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