Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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s the funny part. The guy who stole my package, he had to know I had a video camera there. And the funny part is he's looking for it. So you don't see that on the video I posted, but he backs up. He's got the package in his hand and he realizes that he still has a chance to put it down if he sees a video camera. Right then it's not quite a crime yet. So you see him holding the package and he has t…

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y don't have anybody they trust like a news organization to say, you know, that stuff from Q, I'm not sure that's all real. Okay, I guess they did say that. But imagine if the news were still credible. Imagine if the news was credible or were credible. If the news told you that Q is all made up and it's not real, but everything else that the news told you sounded pretty credible except when it was a legitimate mistake, wouldn't you be inclined to believe them if they had a track record of telling you the truth and doing a pretty good job? But they don't. They don't have any track record.

In fact, as I was tweeting this morning, do you remember when you were so innocent that if the news didn't cover a story, what did you assume? If the news just ignored a story that you thought was a story but they don't touch it, what did you assume was true about that? That it wasn't really a story. That they had looked into it and there was nothing there, so they didn't even need to report that it was false. It just wasn't there, so they just ignore it.

But do you believe that now in 2022? Do you believe that if the news doesn't cover a story, the reason is they looked into it and there's nothing there? No. You're just as likely to believe they looked into it and found something there, and th

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at's why it's not being reported. So here's another example of why we don't trust the press. CNN is now going full-throated: Generation IV nuclear is a good idea. And there's a story on there about how Bill Gates and TerraPower is building a plant in Wyoming that will be one of these next-generation, cheaper, smaller, safer kinds of nuclear energy. And CNN is treating it like it's just all good n…

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