een me challenge Dr. Malone on his expertise? I don't think I have. Why would I? That'd be dumb. I've only challenged him on my expertise. So I believe that I might be better at him at determining what data looks real from a study based on the fact that he tweeted some stuff that looks pretty sketchy. And I think I'm good at determining who is hallucinating and who's not. That's my expertise. I think I'm good at determining BS. That's another part of my expertise.

So I have on one side we have some let's say rules of thumb for determining who's hallucinating and he falls into pretty much all of them. Which doesn't mean I'm right and he's wrong. One particular, did he state this in question? The one I remember was data that showed that the vaccines were more dangerous for young people than we thought. So give me a fact check on this but I believe that's one of them. But if you looked at the data he just misread it. Now is that the one where he claimed a lot of myocarditis but the only people they studied were people who had it? Whatever it was was like a real basic error. So that's one of them I know about.

All right. How many of you think that there is some part of the government that is trying to train you through the pandemic into being easier to control? How many think that was an explicit goal of somebody? I'm seeing some yeses. A lot of yeses. Who do you think was doing that? Do you think there was a meeting or meetings in which people said you know if we can get people to do a bunch of little stuff like wearing masks it will be easier to get them to do more stuff? Do you think there was anybody who ever had that conversation? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no because I think what it is is just a collection of a whole bunch of people doing what they think is right or good for them. I think it's just a whole bunch of self-interest averaged together. I don't think there's any big puppet master who's manipulating us into making us more subservient. To me that looks, sounds a little crazy actually because it would imagine that there's some person or persons that has that kind of power and that kind of like long-term plan. I mean if you have a name of a person or persons that consider it but there's no evidence of anything like that.

Somebody says not sure but it's the end result. Is it? Because that's not what I see. What I see is the public getting increasingly less likely to do what they're told. Am I wrong? To me the entire United States is on the verge of revolution. If you think that this caused the citizens of the United States to be more compliant I would say we're very compliant in the short run because you know it's an emergency, nobody knows what to do. It's like oh tell me what to do I'll do it. In the short run Americans and everybody else can be very compliant. But we are a very non-compliant country. In fact you could argue that the entire history of the United States is about non-compliance. We're the most non-complying people ever. You know do you think somebody's gonna, well probably somebody who's gonna wear masks even after they're not required because they did before. But I'm pretty sure we're all just dying to get out of these little limitations.

All right. And then how many of you think that my big problem is my attitude or the way that I communicate? How many would say that's my big problem? That's the way I communicate? No. No really. Oh that's interesting. I thought that was going to be all yeses and I'm getting more nos than yeses. I'm surprised because a lot of people are saying that the problem is my arrogance. And I'm sensitive to that criticism because it's not the first time I've heard it. So you have to take it seriously if you hear it more than once.

But I'll tell you what it feels like on the inside. On the inside I think I've been telling you that nobody knows what to do. Like I told you that I guessed about vaccinations and nobody's good at predicting. Our leaders probably aren't even going to make a difference. So to me I've said the opposite of I have the answer and you don't. To me I said it's unknowable. We're all guessing. Good luck. To me that sounds the opposite of arrogant. But does it sound arrogant to you? Yeah I think it is.

Here's what I think. I think when I demolish people's arguments because most people are not good, well let me give you a setup here. Would you agree that debating and reasoning are learned skills? It takes some natural ability but do you agree with the notion that reasoning and debate are learned skills mostly? You know on top of whatever your intelligence is. Would you agree that somebody who practices it a lot is going to be better than somebody who doesn't practice? Is that fair? I think it is because that would be just like everything else, right? Everything you practice.

Now can you think of anybody who's practiced more than me? In fact one of my biggest criticisms is I can't stop practicing because I'm on Twitter all the time responding to arguments and criticisms. I don't think anybody's practiced more than me. And not just on Twitter. For my entire life I wrote a book on how to think clearly. So here's my take. I think that people who don't have the same amount of practice, when they're when they encounter somebody who does it's very triggering. Because our opinions would be different but I would argue that my opinions are sort of carved out of a lifetime of practice. But if your opinion was just something that you ginned up on the spot but you're not really somebody who works on the technique of debate and rational thought that it would be very off-putting. It would be very off-putting to see somebody who's experienced at this tell you that you're wrong.

So I think some of it is that reaction. There's a big difference between practice and talent. Yes but for the same amount of talent practice will be the difference. All right. People don't know the difference between facts and opinions. Weirdly. Weirdly they act like they don't. I mean they do know the difference between facts and opinion but we all consistently act like we don't. And I think I fall into that too. Knowing what you're talking about helps you.

All right interesting. All right I think those questions. Can you comment on AOC's sexual frustrations? Well I think you mean the comments she made. The Republicans are mad at AOC because they can't date her. So she actually tweeted something like that. Republicans really secretly are frustrated because they can't date her. And I thought that was just provocative tweeting which she's good at. I wouldn't take any of that too seriously.

What if the hallucination is you thought you heard elephant but it was really chair? Well what do you think will be my response when you challenge the analogy? If there's one thing I could do like for my career like the one accomplishment would be I love if people stop challenging my analogies. Like that's going to help.

See oh okay Addison has a 20 dollar comment here. I love you but boy I don't love how you seem to so often disregard individual beliefs as unimportant. Well I've never done that. Or delusion. Never done that. Just some things are delusions and some are not. And a good example is your view of trans athletes and women's sports. No that's a terrible example. That's the worst example you could ever come up with. My view of trans athletes in sports is that sports are broken. It doesn't even have anything to do with trans. I just use the trans topic to make my point that sports themselves are poorly organized for modern life. They're great. I love sports. I played every sport you can think of. I love love sports. But in the current mode they have a lot of problems. So I use the trans thing only to attack the inadequacy of sports.

What I mean by that is people should be playing with people who are similar ability. You all agree right? People should play with people of similar ability. 100 perc