Back to episode — Episode 1640 Scott Adams - Joe Rogan's Video Response and How the Pandemic Changed Reality
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nd that you paid a thousand dollars for, whatever the price was. That's like the worst thing that could ever happen to a company. Well we made a handheld object you just can't hold it in your hand. That's the only problem. Otherwise it's really spiffy. Doesn't make phone calls and it's a phone but otherwise really good. That's a big problem, right? Here's how Steve Jobs handled it which became th…
← Previous segment →tin. It's just about the truth of a story. And then it took Andreas Backhaus another like five seconds to completely dismantle it. And he goes, this news feels too basic. Sanity checks: one, there is no preprint or other documentation yet. And then two, assuming they did the trial in Japan, Omicron became dominant there just one month ago. One month isn't a realistic time frame for a whole trial.
And I'm thinking yeah, okay. And by the time I had read that, Reuters had already corrected the story and took out the phase three trial part which was the ridiculous part. Basically they found out that Ivermectin works in a lab, which we already knew. In other words there wasn't any news. There wasn't any news at all. Do you know what else works in a test tube against diseases? Practically everything. Do you know what kills a virus? I don't know. You could probably piss on it and I think pretty much everything kills it in a lab. Coca-Cola in a lab. So basically this is Reuters reporting something that wasn't even close to being credible or true.
But remember my original point. The pandemic has allowed us to see the machinery. You could just see this one. You didn't even have to analyze it. Oh that's not true.
All right, Pat Sajak had this tweet. He said I've discovered that no matter how outlandishly over the top, satirical, sarcastic or ridiculous the tweet, approximately 20 percent of Twitter users who comment will take it at face value. Helps expl
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ain why there's so much anger out there. Well I think Pat was off by five percentage points. As I've been noting, 25 percent or so-ish people will be wrong about anything, everything. To the point where I got a tweet just before I came on, or was it maybe I saw it on a Locals comment, I'm forgetting where I saw it, that maybe it just might be part of the base rules of our reality. You know the ba…
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