Back to episode — Episode 1698 Scott Adams - How to Fix All The Fake News, Trump Is Being Trump Again, And More Fun
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nderstand why Ukraine isn't doing it. There must be some strategy behind that. And here's some Disney fake news. I've been ignoring this whole Florida don't say gay bill because it's not really don't say gay. So I guess the bill in Florida that schools will not be allowed to teach anything about sexuality to kids below a certain age. Is that true? Did I summarize that correctly? Because I'm not r…
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Now how many of you were offended when you heard they were going to make their content just like the public? Probably some of you am I right? Just because nobody did the math and when you first hear it you're like whoa what are they doing that seems like too high. And I think there's a known phenomenon where people are bad at estimating what percentage of things there are in the country. That's a known thing right? This is one of those. And I cheekily tweeted about this and I said that in related news 40% of all sick days in the workplace are on a Monday or Friday. 40% can you believe that? That's an outrageous number. 40% of all the people calling in sick are doing that coincidentally on a Friday or a Monday. Huh how about that? Oh wait Monday plus Friday would be two out of the five work days which is exactly 40%. That's right. Now I actually did a Dilbert comic about that.
All right so here's a story about Alex Epstein. Author. He's got a book coming out called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. And apparently there was going to be a Washington Post article he was warned about that was going to try to cancel him and paint him as a racist because he thinks there's a moral reason for, or apparently he argues in the book I haven't yet read but plan to, that there's a moral case for fossil fuels. Now I think you've all heard the argument. I would assume that you're going to get lots of good meat on this but you've heard other people have made the argument that fossil fuels are better for the poor than they are for anybody. I guess it's supposedly good for everybody but the poor especially need it to survive because they need energy. If you can't get it another way you're gonna have to get it that way.
Now here's the thing. Do you believe that there's a real thing where the media colludes or maybe even just one media entity to write a hit piece to take out the reputation of somebody who has a book that goes against the narrative? Do you believe that's real? It's very real. Okay you're all saying yes. I wasn't sure if you were all convinced. No it's very real. Bloomberg, one of the Bloomberg publications did this to me when I was saying good things about Trump when he was starting to get traction so that you could see people getting picked off one by one and I survived.
Now I told you earlier that I googled myself and I was trying to see if that Bloomberg piece was still the top h
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it because for years, four years, one of the top news hits was a hit piece because it was a big publication and it was recent so it's there at the top. Now it's gone away and I wonder if it ever deserved to be there because it went away. I don't know. There weren't that many new things that there were like major news pieces to replace it but it went away. So these are the things that I wonder abou…
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