Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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his you would disagree with. Number one, this is what I call a category problem. If you tried to figure out what's true or not, the first thing I do is say what category is it. I'll give you an example. Your neighbor says he saw a UFO and it abducted his family and took them away and then returned them intact the next day. That's a category that you can reasonably assume most of the things that ar…

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nversation with me on some topic and you don't have anything whatsoever to say of use, feel free to use any of these phrases. He's jumping the shark now. He jumped the shark. Well look who's the pointy-haired boss now. I guess we know who's the pointy-haired boss now. That's just like The Matrix. That reminds me of Soylent Green. Oh, so you're an apologist. You're an apologist now. Can we call you an apologist, you apologist? I saw it with my own eyes, Scott. Don't tell me it didn't happen. I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. So say that. Any sheep references are good. Sheep, you're sheep. Somebody's a sheep. Everybody's a sheep. Any kind of sheep reference is good. Also 1984 the book, Hitler, and anything with fascist of course. Just throw that into any reference. Goes with each of these, goes with every argument really.

Now on the sheep reference, may I say this? I think the sheep reference is the lowest level of thinking in the pandemic. Somebody's, oh yeah Scott is such a sophist. I have to add that to my list. Yeah that's a good one. You know everybody's a sheep, right? So the funniest thing about 2021 is sheep calling other sheep sheep. And then the sheep that they're calling sheep are saying I'm not a sheep, you're the sheep. And like nobody's aware that we're all sheep.

Well here's what I mean by that with the vaccinations. The anti-vaxxers are saying you're sheep and you're afraid of COVID. That's why you're getting the vaccination. But then the sheep say but wait a minute, are you afraid of the vaccination? I'm afraid of the COVID. You're afraid of the vaccination. Doesn't that make both of us sheep? I think we're both sheep because we're both afraid of something and we don't know, right? So as soon as you think it's the other person who's a sheep you've left the ground of rational conversation.

Here's something I didn't know. This is also an Andres Backhaus discovery, meaning that the data was already out there easy to find but for some reason he got it and you didn't. Did you think the suicides went up during the lockdowns? How many of you think the suicides are up during the pandemic? Reveal yourselves. How many say suicides are up? They're down but not equally. Turns out that they're down in every category except, no way they're down. No they're up in every category except adult white men I think. Should I read that right? Yeah I think that's it. So only white adults had fewer suicides but other groups had a little bit more. But overall because there's a lot of white adults killing themselves. So I guess it's not men it's adults. And it says the overall decline, I think this was from NPR, the overall decline was drive

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n mostly, almost entirely by a drop in suicides among white people who apparently kill themselves at a higher rate than any other group. Did you know that? Did you know that white people kill themselves at the highest rate? Now how do you define equity? Because I've said this before. Shouldn't you just measure everybody's level of happiness and if they're similar you're done, right? You don't hav…

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