Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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isoning, TDS, and they acted on their mental health. They acted to reduce their mental health problems and they used Twitter like it was a pharmaceutical drug that if they tweaked it just right they could reduce their mental health issues. And so they did. So they did. How much do you love that they use Twitter like a pharmaceutical to improve their mental health? That actually happened right? Th…

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ay and they put a big scientific chart with data I just say well that's probably not true. I'm not going to ignore it because you know when experts say something you don't want to ignore it. It might be true but the credibility is below zero now.

Do you think that the mental health community the experts do you think they can tell the difference between these various diagnoses? Do you think that if you had 10 mental health professionals and they all diagnosed Ye do you think they'd all agree? No they would not. They would not agree. Do you know why? Because it's not a science. It's not even close. It's a pharma industry created thing that's sort of trying to look like science but mostly is scams and liars and bad ideas.

Yeah so now just to be clear I'm sure there are some valuable elements of the mental health profession. I'm sure of it. But do you think I could figure out which ones are the real ones and which ones are the complete... of course not because I have no ability to do that. Do you know who else can't do that? The people in the industry. Because if they could tell what was in their own industry they'd all have the same opinion but they can't. That's why they have different opinions. And if the experts in their own industry can't tell what's real and what isn't why should you believe them?

Let's say you go to a financial expert. Financial expert says here's how you should invest. You say thank you good information. I'm going to get a second opinion though. So you go to a second financial expert and they say do something different. You go hmm two different opinions. Okay I better check with another one. Let's say you check with a bunch of financial people and you get advice that's in both directions. Some say sell your stock some say hold your stock some say get out of stocks and do something different. What would your conclusion be? Would your conclusion be that experts know more than you do and you should follow their advice because their advice was different? What you should conclude is that the experts don't know any more than you do about what a stock is going to do in the future which is true. That's been well demonstrated.

So when the experts don't agree your conclusion should be that's not really a science. It's not really it's just a scam industry. The financial advice industry is a complete scam industry that for whatever reason well not whatever reason because everybody who treats it like it's real gets a lot of money for doing it right. The TV shows that have commercials from financial institutions that would be the same as like a hair growth solution isn't that they know isn't real right? You don't think that the experts on CNBC know that the experts they have on don't know anything. Of course they know that. Do you know why the experts on CNBC know that the experts they have on don't have useful information? Because that's what every expert knows. The one thing every expert knows correctly is that none of the experts can predict. Some will be right but that's because everybody's predicting different things. Of course some will be right. Then later they'll say well look I was right. I was the best predictor for three years so let me handle your money. You think they'll be the best predictor for the next three years? Usually not. Usually not because it's chance right.

So the mental health professionals look a lot like financial professionals which is I'll bet if you were yourself a mental health professional you would think that your own industry was... prove me wrong. Find somebody who works currently in that industry and have a private conversation with them because I did that with somebody in the financial advice industry and they told me flat out now the advice I give my clients I would never use for myself. Flat out. No not even shaded a little bit. No it's basically a fake industry.

All right. I know you don't want me to but there's something we need to say about Ye. Can you handle it a little bit? All right let me give you a little walk in the park of the history of Ye. I want to see if you can put all of these little pieces together into anything that feels like a pattern. See if you can find the pattern.

Okay so you remember when Ye interrupted Taylor Swift's award-winning thing and he got up there and instead of letting the award ceremony progress in this normal way he got up there and said probably the

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main thing you should not say in that situation which is somebody else should have won this award. Right? Would you agree that whatever else it was and you'll have lots of descriptions of how bad it was would you agree that he shouldn't have said it? Can you all give me that it was something that very specifically you should not have said even if he believed it you shouldn't say it out loud in pub…

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