Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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g. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. That came directly from heaven, pretty sure. Well, what's going on with you today? So I had a weird day yesterday. How many of you have had a day like this? I woke up this morning. I realized that I had zero human contact yesterday. I talked to people by phone and talked to people by messaging. I did a live stream. I saw people. I had…

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recorded, so I don't know when it actually runs. I'm noticing his production values keep going up. Yeah, I assume it is. I believe it is recorded. I'll let you know if it's not.

I have fallen for possibly two hoaxes this week alone. Let's see if you fell for these. And by the way, I don't know if these are hoaxes. So there are two things that I thought were true-ish that other people say are hoaxes. Let's see if you can confirm that they're hoaxes. Number one, did you see a video? It's on Twitter of a young woman who purports to have used AI to have created a deepfake that looks really, really real. But apparently it's a hoax, and the hoax is it's actually just a real person. So it's a real person doing a deepfake of a deepfake, which is pretty clever. Totally fell for it. Now, it's a weird hoax because it's so close to something that can actually be done that I don't know. I like a hoax when it's something that definitely can't be done, you know, something impossible, and somebody believes it. But if it's this close to something that could actually be done in the real world, it's interesting, but it's not quite a hoax. It's more like fake news. All right, so that was fun.

The other one that I'm told is a hoax is the news that the Big Bang theory has been debunked. So the article that made all the noise recently was that the scientists are, quote, panicked because the Webb telescope is showing that the Big Bang didn't happen. But if you talk to people who are in that field, they say something more along the lines of nothing like that happened. No, the Big Bang's still fine. There's just some things that the Webb showed that are different than predictions, and we haven't worked that out. But basically the Big Bang is confirmed by many other ways. It's just that there's some new information that didn't fit the exact predictions. Oh, slight. Yeah, it's just slightly different than the prediction. So doesn't this sort of beg the question, what is a slight difference? Because my understanding is that they discovered entire galaxies at the edge of the universe that couldn't exist because of the age. In other words, it would be impossible for the Big Bang to have happened the way it's predicted to have happened if the oldest things, or the oldest-looking things, are at the edge of the universe. They should look the youngest because by the time the light reaches us, we'd be seeing the past. So I may be describing that wrong, but the point is there are some galaxies that shouldn't be where they are. I've got a feeling that's not a slight problem. But if a scientist tells you it's a slight problem, what are you going to do? You're going to disagree with the scientists? I believe I will. I believe I'm going to disagree with the scientists. I don't think there's a slight problem if you've got galaxies that are the wrong age in the wrong place. That feels like a big problem, right?

And does it matter how many things confirm the Big Bang if there's one big thing that says it didn't happen? I'm pretty sure that no matter how many other things confirm it did happen, if you have one really glaring big thing that says it didn't, isn't it more likely that the other things are confirmation bias or a false positive? The rogue astronomer. That's right, I'm the rogue astronomer. But of course I think that simulation theory is already debunked anyway. So in my view, all of history is debunked, from evolution through... Oh, by the way, they found a new, I guess there's a new skeleton that adds a new human species to the line. How many times are we going to find a new species that rewrites all of human evolution? I feel like there was a lot of guessing going on there. A lot of rewriting.

All right, so I guess I got hoaxed twice, potentially. Although I think the Big Bang thing might be a hoax that it's a hoax. So that's still an open question in my mind.

All right, I saw Jared Kushner giving an interview. He's got his book out. I think it's number one. Jared Kushner's book is number one bestseller. And let me ask you this. Many of you are skeptics. And Jeff says I've been hoaxed way more than that. So Jeff, I'm sure you'll have some examples. Do you remember the thing that people say the most about me? What's the biggest criticism you hear about me? There are two of them. Two biggest criticisms you hear about me. Number one, I never admit I'm wrong, which I literally just did. I just told you I got hoaxed. Practically every show I admit something I got wrong. But yet it's the biggest criticism against me, is that I

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don't admit when I get things wrong, even though I do it more. I probably do it more than anybody's ever done it. I'll bet that's true. I know that's an absurd claim, but I'll bet for a public figure I've admitted I'm wrong more than anybody ever has, possibly because I do almost every show. I say, well, I used to think this but I was wrong. Right now, let me ask you this to see who you think was…

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