Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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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 th…

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ent of people agree that that would be a good situation. That's all. That's my entire opinion. My entire opinion is people should play with people of similar talent. Doesn't matter gender or whatever. So if you're telling me that the issue with trans is that they're on a team in which they're demolishing women I say right right that's my problem. Why would you form a team where one person is for whatever reason, you know let's say when Lew Alcindor that was his name before Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, when he was in high school do you think they put, I'm just guessing but do you think they put 14-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the JV team or do you think he got bumped up to play with the older people because it would be ridiculous to have somebody seven foot four or whatever he was playing with 14 year olds, right?

So we routinely balance things and say oh okay this is a special case. You know Yao Ming you're not with the regular people you go play with the tall people. All I'm saying is we should just do more of that because it works. We should never even be having a conversation about gender now. Some of you say but wait Scott that would be unfair to women because they wouldn't get sports scholarships. Exactly. Exactly. Not because there's something wrong with women it's because the sports are broken. Why the hell are we giving anybody a sports scholarship to college? How about don't do that whether you're male or female. How about no men get them either. Would that make more sense? Do you? I went to a college in which I could tell that some of the resources that would have gone to my education had been funneled into the basketball team. How's that good for me? I'm not on the basketball team.

So while I think the sports are great and entertaining and good for people etc. the sports themselves just need to be fixed. You need to get the other thing you need to do is get the traveling teams just get out of that. Like if there are parents who are dedicating their life to a son or daughter's softball career that isn't even going to get them into college, bad idea. Stop doing it. Just have friendly games among people who are similarly talented and call it a day. The best possible sport you could ever have, playing with people of similar talent. It's amazing. All the other stuff get rid of it.

All right so did that help you? I know a lot of you had a problem with my trans opinions but the truth is I don't have an opinion about trans. I really don't. I have an opinion about sports. You just thought it was an opinion about trans.

Somebody asked if you're wearing the one extra coat that I keep in the car what will my hot wife wear? And the answer is my hot wife will have a coat and I will freeze to death because I often bring an extra jacket to dinner because females for whatever reason don't often dress warm enough if it doesn't look good. So I will bring my one extra coat and then I'll freeze to death over dinner because I have to give up my coat as soon as I sit down.

So I started to, oh Nick says you could be communicating poorly. You mean the trans topic? You are correct but intentionally in that case. I communicated it poorly because I was sort of enjoying all the pushback on the trans stuff with people not quite getting that I was never even on that topic. I'm very pro-trans by the way. Very very pro-trans under the assumption that why can't anybody do what they want? Why am I telling people what to do? It has nothing to do with them or their choices. I just don't want to be in the position of telling people how to think and act.

All right. Arguing and reasoning is, Adam Dopamine here saying arguing and reasoning is like sex. Everyone assumes they're good at it because they like doing it. Yeah bingo bingo.

I have a woo. All right. I apologize in advance or not in advance. I apologize for making this too much about me. I hoped I could deliver which was the topic is me but I'm trying to teach you these rules. You know elephant in the room. If you can't talk to the other experts in it don't talk to the lay people. Don't have one person talking to an expert. You need proximity. So those are the concepts.

But I don't care. You know my role, my role in all this is trivial. But the interesting part is how people think.

Scott you said the three doctors were not credible because they were not ID'd. I corrected that as I said it because somebody said they were ID'd, right? So you said they were not credible because they're not ID'd but in fact they were ID'd but the way the story was written it was a little misleading to me.

Your biggest prediction was that someone would withhold vital information until after the election. 30 days after election Pfizer announced the vaccine. Did I make that prediction? Does anybody remember that prediction? That did I ever say that somebody would withhold vital information until after the election? Because that doesn't feel like something I would say because it's so obvious. Oh I did. So somebody says I did say that. Yeah I'm I thought I would not have predicted that because that would just be a statement of the obvious, right? Was barely a prediction because I think everybody said that.

Did I watch Don't Look Up? No I didn't.

Here's a comment. Clot that's my new nickname. Clot your problem is people know you're smart enough to make everything you say manipulative toward their persuasion ends. That's true. Yeah one of my big problems is that if you think people could fool you you're extra cautious.

And Dr. Johnson my mascot is back. You all know Dr. Johnson my mascot. I used to call my trolls trolls but once they become prominent they become mascots because like at a certain level the troll just becomes part of the entertainment. So Dr. Johnson you are promoted to mascot. Yes.

Why were you so afraid of COVID? How does anybody determine who was afraid of what? How would you know that about me? Well I examined my own mind to see if you know anybody else's impression of what I

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'm thinking is even close. How often do you think it's close? Not often. Let me tell you where my fears were. I'll try to be as honest. I think I could be honest, completely honest about this. So I told you that when the pandemic first started and I was shouting to close the borders there were smart people telling me this civilization was about to end. Actual civilization. And the argument wasn't…

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