Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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t long ago. That was a surprise to archaeologists. Now if somebody knew that stuff 12,000 years ago and then there was a big disruption which also people agree with. So the two things that he doesn't have pushback on I think is that there was that knowledge that somebody had, at least one civilization had the knowledge 12,000 years ago and then there was this long period and then suddenly farming…

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t race at the moment either way it goes. If I could find out for sure I would accept it, right? I wouldn't have cognitive dissonance because if you told me the vaccinations were hurting people I'd say well not totally surprising. So that there's no trigger for cognitive dissonance. If you told me that they actually work great I would say excellent not totally surprising. So neither of those would trigger me. I'm open to both possibilities.

So when I tell you that the debunk exists what I'm talking about is the credibility of documentaries. The only point I want to make here is stop believing documentaries. Can I ask you to do that? I'm going to ask you directly. I'll just ask you please stop trusting documentaries. Now they might raise really important issues and they might be totally right. I'm not saying every documentary is wrong. I'm saying that you can't trust them because they were persuasive. If you say I believe it's true because I saw a really persuasive documentary you're talking like a crazy person. Stop doing that. I watched a documentary means you've been misled. Get that right. I watched a documentary almost certainly 95 percent of the time that means you've been misled by a professional misleader. It's what they do.

All right and Rob Reiner. I love Rob Reiner because he gets every story wrong. It is like I don't know you're some kind of a symbol for the left that's perfect. Every time like he captures everything about the left. So he tweeted Nick Fuentes is an unabashed anti-Semitic Holocaust denier. Donald Trump invited him over for dinner. Enough said. He didn't invite him to dinner. He gets everything wrong, right? If he had invited him to dinner it would be a different story. Like very different, right? If he had invited him then I'd say well that really does tell you everything you need to know. But of course he didn't invite him. Like that wasn't even the fact.

But as I tweeted it doesn't really matter if Trump invited him or not because it's like the Charlottesville fine people hoax now has a life of its own. And if you think that Trump can continually flirt with being on the edge of being anti-Semitic without actually being anti-Semitic, because I don't believe he is, if you think that he'll have enough support to win the presidency in that strategy I don't see it. I can't see it happening. But could be surprised. You never know. If Trump came up with a good sentinel plan or even if he ate it all bets are off. No bets are off. So we'll probably have 300 situations that tell us my God this changes everything before 2024 and then we'll find out it didn't change everything because there'll be another one tomorrow that changes everything.

All right according to Timcast Nick came with Milo and Milo is the person. Yeah does that change anything? I mean if Nick came with Milo you don't think that Nick was brought along to destroy Trump? Does anybody think that now? Let's say it was Milo who did the invitation and made it happen and brought Nick Fuentes. You don't think that Milo

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is smart enough to know that that would destroy Trump? Of course he is. He's not a beginner. Milo didn't start politics this week. He kind of knows how this stuff works. He's very experienced. Yeah of course he did. So if you imagine that that was accidental like do you think that Milo or Yay, who knows what Yay was thinking? I mean he might not even known who Nick Fuentes was but we don't know. B…

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