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ot cognitive dissonance. You look for someone who has the trigger and you know they exhibit the tells. I'm not sure I see any but then maybe I wouldn't. Yeah the word salad. Have I exhibited any word salad about Biden? Well you wouldn't know because if you're on the same page it would look like it made sense to you. Yeah anyway we'll keep an eye on that because it looks like nobody cares. So Trum…

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story. So interesting.

What is your belief about the mainstream opinion of long COVID? Not your own opinion. Not your own opinion. What do you believe if you were to Google what would be the front page of Google results? Not saying it's true. I'm just asking you what would appear. Would it say that long COVID is pretty much a thing definitely? What is it saying? Maybe we're still looking into it or would it say you know I've got a feeling this isn't real?

All right the Google search, and again I'm not endorsing this as being correct. If you just Googled you would see that long COVID is very real. That's their claim not mine. Very real and it's kind of a big deal. Now usually it's something that would last months. Now what percentage of people according to the Google front page, not me, what percentage of people do you think experienced long COVID which they would define as let's say weeks or months of brain fog and fatigue? Like 45 percent. 45 percent.

Now if you had lost three months of your life to fatigue how big of a risk would you take to avoid that? Of course the vaccination risk you know is everything including death because it's an unknown. You don't know what happens to you or anybody else. There's no way to measure the two risks. But what if COVID which was, well let me ask this question.

So here's something I had genuine curiosity for. How did you know that long COVID wouldn't be as bad as maybe long measles is? How did you know that? So I asked people how they knew it and a lot of people said they knew it because the data said that people were getting it and recovering and they knew people who it was just a cold and they got over it. Now that's people telling me that they know the future because they know the present. To me that's not even a thing because in the present I thought measles was just something that happened to me then but 50 years later I found out oh it turns out I thought I was safe but maybe I wasn't.

But people unlike the measles case there were a lot of people who looked at the current COVID information and from that they formed certainty about the future. Now I don't know how to do that. I only could look at current information and say well I don't know about the future.

So I asked Ivor Cummins who is a famous opponent to vaccinations and he said, oh I also asked if how do you explain that the scientists and drug executives presumably but we don't know took the shots themselves. Like if you think they're dangerous how would you explain that to people who invented them took them. And what I found was that the majority of people that I polled believe they didn't. They believed they didn't take them which is totally possible. That is totally possible. You know there was a day when I would have said come on. Right there was a time in my life I always said come on. If the executives and the scientists who invented them didn't take them we would know that. There would be whistleblowers and you know it would just be so obvious. You would know it.

Yes Katie. Katie is also confusing the future and the past. So there's somebody on here who can't tell the difference between today and the future. You're right. Do you know there's a difference? You should look into that. So there are things that happen like today that can be different than things that happen in the future and sometimes the futures are unknown. Sometimes you don't know. I know that's the first time you're finding that out Katie. I know.

So Katie is screaming in all caps. Scott in 2020 we must immediately close the entire country down from all international flights and lockdown. First of all Katie that was about China only. China only. And that was when we didn't know what it was and I said well at least shut down until we find out. So with the information we have at the time that's called the present. Now I know these concepts are unfamiliar but the present is different than the past and also different in the future. Now if I had known what you know Katie apparently you're a time traveler and you knew from the first moment that it was no risk. You are my role model. I want to be like you and go on podcasts and shout in all capital letters that the future and the current are the same. That I can look at my future data today and then with the benefit of the future data I could make decisions today. Now that's something I didn't know Katie so thank you for correcting me. Oh Katie you got very quiet. How embarrassing to be you right now.

All right so but there is, as people said to me and I expect that they would say this, that there is actually an entirely reasonable argument, a totally reasonable argument why all of the scientists and all of the executives or some portion of them might have skipped the shots and lied to you. That is possible. In 2022 and 2021 I would say we've actually reached the point of ridiculousness where that was actually possible. Now if I had to put odds on it I would say not very high but it's actually possible now.

Here's another possibility. The scientists and executives were so let's say enamored by how much money they were going to make because even the scientists were going to get rich just on stock options. Anybody who owned company stocks got rich. So everybody was going to make a killing and the only thing they had to do was tell you that it was safe. That's all they had to do and they would all get rich. And then they had immunity, right? They had negotiated immunity. So once they negotiated immunity they'd lost all incentives to tell you the truth. They had no incentive to tell you the truth because they had immunity and if they lied, this is hypothetical but if they lied they would get rich and they would have no risk.

So do you think that people who have a choice of getting rich if they say one thing, are they objective anymore? Of course not. Of course not. So it's entirely possible and it fits within my understanding of psychology that everyone at big pharma was in cognitive dissonance and convinced themselves they were working for the good but were doing the opposite. I'm not saying that's the case. I'm saying that would be fully within the normal scope of human behavior. Totally accepted.

Now if you told me that that situation would remain that way forever well then I get skeptical. The longer you wait the more somebody's gonna leave the ranks. You're going to get a whistleblower. So here's a question I ask. Where's the whistleblowers? The ones who say we knew it was bad for you but we did it anyway. Where are they? How much would you have to make to be a whistleblower in this situation? Because I think if you're a scientist or you work there you probably made five million dollars. Don't you think? Don't you think that like a top scientist probably made five, ten, twenty million dollars just on stock options just for going to work? I think you know because they probably had a top scientist probably had a million or two in stock options which you know ballooned immediately up to 10 million or something.

So but suppose you offered 20 million dollars for any whistleblower who could tell you that they knew it was dangerous and did it anyway without telling you the danger. Do you think anybody would answer for 20 million dollars? Remember follow the money. Well if you say no then you're relying a little bit on the follow the money because the top executives would lose money if they became whistleblowers, right? The top executive has probably made a billion apiece or 100 million or something so they would lose money. 20 million would be a bad deal for them. But if you're let's say just an employee, a staff person, let's say you made a million dollars in stock options. Pretty darn good for a year of work. But you take 20. I think you'd take 20 million. I don't know if it's taxable. Our whistleblower compensation is that taxable? Is there any special carve out for whistleblowers for taxes? Because I don't know if you get the 20 or you get the 10. So maybe you only get half of it. Right that's why I made it 20 million.

So if you believe that they were bad people doing bad things the questions you'd have to ask is why did they all take it or how did they all hide the fact they didn't or how could there not be at least one whistleblower. Just one whistleblower who likes 20 million dollars and likes attention. Just one. Then maybe there will be one. Maybe we just wait a little while and they'll feel safer to come out. Right it's possible.

So here's where I went wrong. All right I believe I was biased by people who take drugs. The illegal kind. If you have any experience in the illegal drug world what's the number one rule of whether or not you put a drug in your mouth? Number one rule. What is it? It's an illegal drug. What's the number one rule before you put it in your mouth or you smoke it? Did you watch somebody else do it? That's the number one rule. Did you watch somebody reach into the same bag and take out the same pill or powder or whatever it's going to be and watch them put it in their mouth and then the next day they're still alive, right? If you took mushrooms from a bag that you don't know anybody's ever tried well you're really taking the chance there, right?

So the number one rule, in fact it was the rule I mentioned to my stepson before he violated the rule and died because I'm pretty sure that he took some things and simply hadn't tested them. And there was at least one other person who died from the same batch the same day. So the batch was bad. Nobody tested from that batch, right? So it's the number one thing.

So when I look at the vaccinations slash shots the number one question I said is well are they taking it, right? Are the executives taking it? What about the scientists who invented it? Are they taking it? What about Dr. Malone? Dr. Malone the co-inventor of the mRNA. Did he take it? He did. He did. He says he did. We can't prove anything right but I imagine you wouldn't lie about that.

Now here's my second question. If you took the executives and the top scientists of big pharma and you brought them before Congress would it be legal to ask them the question did you get the vaccination? It might be illegal to ask because it's their personal medical stuff, right? They could just say I don't talk about my personal medical situation. So even Congress can't find out if they took the shot, right? Am I right? Or does, let me think now. The government has a record of our vaccination status though, right? Don't they? Do a fact check. I mean the whole point of having the vaccination cards is that everybody who got a vaccination was entered. So if the executives and the scientists who invented it if they have a card and they're on a record you still don't know if they got a saline because half of you believe they got saline, right?

But don't you think, do you think that there would be no whistleblower if the executives and the scientists were taking saline? You don't think you'd get a whistleblower for that? See I could imagine no whistleblower on the basic question of whether they knew it was dangerous. I could imagine no whistleblower on that even if there was something there. But I can't imagine, I can't imagine my head, my head cannot hold and hold into it that you wouldn't have a whistleblower by now if a number of them like a large number got a saline shot. Do you believe they could keep that secret up till now? I don't know. It certainly I think it's possible. Yeah I think the things we've seen from the Russia collusion to you know the laptop to, I mean think about the fact there are 51 people who signed that Hunter laptop thing. 51 people. Not a single one of them has come forward and said you know that wasn't real. We were just trying to influence things. No whistleblowers there. That's 51 people. No whistleblowers. Tuskegee, there were no whistleblowers for a long time, right? So there are lots of situations where there are no whistleblowers. Yeah it could happen.

But here's where I'm telling you my bias. My bias is that I presumed it's most likely that they took it and then I said well if the people who know the most about it took it that's an argument. But then I have to admit it never occurred to me that they could have taken saline shots and gotten away with it. But we do live in a world where they could have. I don't think it happened like it. My assessment of the odds, the odds that the executives and scientists took saline I'd put it 10 percent. I put that at 10 percent and 10 is high. Yeah I'm stretching to get to 10 because that would be one hell of a, I mean that would be the crime of the whole. Wouldn't that be the crime of the century or the biggest crime since you know Genghis Khan or biggest crimes in Stalin or Mao or something. But maybe.

Yeah like as somebody who's saying over here I'm gullible now. Remember I believe we're a simulation and I believe that your movie in which I got everything wrong and I trusted big entities is completely true but at the same time the other movie is completely true that I didn't trust any entities and I didn't trust the virus. So they're just both true at the same time and there's nothing wrong with it. They can just both be true.

They took it at a time we thought COVID was a bioweapon but did they get boosters? Because we would also have a record of their boosters. I think what you'd find is that the people attached to it got boosted if they were old and had comorbidities and maybe not if they're young. That's what I think you would find.

All right, so the number of people who believe, only 19 percent of the people I surveyed believe that the executives and the scientists actually took it themselves. 61 percent believed that it was a saline shot or they didn't take it. 61 percent of you believe the executives and the scientists who made it didn't take it. Isn't there some way to find out? Like I get that if it was a super clever saline solution thing maybe you couldn't but I feel like there's some way to find out. I just don't know what it is. Yeah Google it. Google it won't work. Yeah all right all right.

But anyway all it would take to make me happy would be a GoFundMe of 20 million dollars for a whistleblower who could say something we don't already know. You'd have to specify what they specifically, what their claim would have to be to pay them. But if they could prove it with documents especially that would be amazing.

DJ Bear wants you to know this is fake and he's going to say it 20 times. So far just keep saying it. Yeah he just wants to type it over and over again. We're going to make you invisible here. You are now hidden but I encourage you to keep typing.

All right could sign something that

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we would know. Yeah all right. I also wonder how many doctors have died from the shot. No you'd love to know how many medical doctors because there must be enough of them. How many medical doctors are in the United States? It's well over a hundred thousand, right? Million? I don't know. 100,000. Does anybody have any idea? But don't you figure that the medical professionals are probably 98 percent…

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