Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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't why would we want you as president? Because I would want the president who would do it. Let me say it clearly. If you knew the person was a semi-fascist, if you knew it, you're not guessing, if you knew it, yeah I'd rig an election. I'd totally do that. And by the way you should thank me for it. You're welcome. I would risk my life to keep you all safe. Should I be embarrassed to say that? I do…

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f landmark first peer-reviewed study on Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. And the headline says confirms excess risk of adverse side effects. Does that sound like a study you would want to look into? Now how long does it take before the debunkers say hey there's something wrong with that study? It happens instantly right now. But it was peer-reviewed. It was randomized and it had a placebo control. So and that and they showed it purported to show that there were more harm done from the side effects of the vaccination than from the COVID itself.

Now I'm not saying that's true. In fact I'm going to say the opposite. I'm going to say that even the study itself said that the sample size was smallish and that you need a bigger sample to confirm it. But the sample size was tens of thousands of people. So I'm not exactly sure what size you need before you're confident. But even the study itself said you know calm down. You need a bigger study basically. So I don't know if it's big enough because here's the problem. There were lots of problems. There were onesies and twosies. So and it was like thousands, tens of thousands of people would be like one or two people who had some weird condition and I'm not sure that's enough. If you were testing for one condition maybe that's enough people. But if the number of side effects is sort of all over the board and a lot of them are just ones and twos I don't know if you can really conclude that's real. Because you could find a one and a two in any population of 18,000 people. You'd find one of everything. So I actually don't know if this is useful or not but it's not getting much attention in the news. I'm not sure why. Is it the obvious reason? It could be the obvious reason. It's just being de-boosted.

But anytime you see a study in 2022 and beyond what should you say to yourself? Probably not true. Okay can you agree on the following? That any individual study, even if it's a randomized controlled trial, the best kind, even those the best you can say is it's probably not true. Probably as in more than 50 percent chance that it won't hold up. Would you agree that that's because and that's the way you should be a responsible adult consumer of information. A responsible adult consumer of information should start with the assumption that a new study is probably not true. Probably not. If you find out that there's say five studies that follow and they're done with slightly different methodologies but they all are directionally the same, well then you start getting some confidence. But the history of the first study that tells you something new, the odds of that one being true are very low actually. Very low.

All right so I just thought I'd throw this out there. The number of things that I've personally cured in other people over my career: spasmodic dysphonia, paruresis, sneezing. If you didn't know I cured the sneeze. Social anxiety, obesity and drinking. Those are all. That's real. One two three four five six. So five actual major medical problems and sneezing. Which is true. I did. I solved the sneeze. You can try it at home to be sure and see for yourself. If you have the kind of sneeze that you feel coming for a few seconds, sneeze in your mind. Imagine you're sneezing and it just cancels the real sneeze. Now it doesn't work if the sneeze just catches you really fast. Sometimes you walk outside you're just like sneezing. So that one doesn't work. But if you know that one that you've got like 10 seconds and you're like trying to stop it, don't do it physically. Just imagine it in your head. It turns the sneeze completely off.

But I did cure probably thousands of people who had the same voice problem I did just by telling them there was a surgery that I got. They didn't know that. Paruresis, social anxiety, obesity, drinking. I've fixed all those with micro-lessons. Now when I say I fix them I'm saying that other people tell me that's what happened. That's not my personal opinion. And I'm not saying that most people got fixed. I'm not saying 90 percent of the people who tried this got fixed. Nothing like that. I'm just saying that it's a fact that I've cured five major medical problems for people. It's just a weird thing about my life.

So I'll hear some more people. We're not done yet. And I keep gaslighting myself because I use my printer to print out my notes. It prints out three pages but the third one's like a blank page and I think God I've got another page of this to go. How am I ever going to get to that? I feel like there was a story that I was missing. Am I still missing a story? I cured depression. Did I cure your depression? Because I'm careful. Oh somebody says I cured their depression. All right well okay. Now again I'm not saying I could cure anybody else's depression but there's apparently something I said that worked for at least one person. I cured somebody's insomnia. Damn you. Damn you because you're right. I cured somebody's insomnia. Yeah shy bladder is paruresis. That's so I included that one. How did you know I was going to talk about that? Interesting.

Bill Burr talking about the country's division. Now why did that, that's actually what I'm going to talk to Locals

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about. I can't say what I'm going to say on the more public platform. But why did you think that I would talk about that? Is there something he said? Hold on a minute Locals. I want to find out what's going on here. There's something going on here and it might be the reason that I only wanted to talk to Locals. What was it about the Bill Burr interview? I saw the same one. What was it about that t…

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