Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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e-way competition. Go ahead, do it. You know you want to. Anyway, so yeah, Trump would get 52 percent in the primary, 28 would say Haley, and 24 would say DeSantis. Did you see that coming? Now that I assume that's because the Trump votes and the DeSantis votes are a little bit fungible. Like those are the ones that can go either way more easily, whereas the Nikki Haley votes are probably an anti…

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go look. And it was all, in my opinion, now that the person who was in charge of it did not think it was, the person in charge believed that they had found something of value. And I listened to it and I listened to the evidence and I said to myself. So the other possibility is that it's not a prank on Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. It's possible that the government has something and they don't know what it is. Like it could be like a piece of metal that they can't identify. And that in their minds they've built it up to be more than it is, which is just something they can't identify. So my guess is they keep thinking they have a UFO and then they're going to show some people. But the more they think about it, maybe they just have a piece of metal that they can't identify, right? It might be just something like that where they think they have something but they don't.

So again, we're just speculating. Can't read minds. But I'll tell you what I would not bet on. I would not bet on we have any captured UFOs and the government wanted Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein to see it first. That feels unlikely. Do you know why that's unlikely? Because obviously they would have asked me to see it first. Am I right? All right, that was sarcasm.

All right. I love that story. That's so good. Speaking of Sam Harris, he's getting a lot of trouble by saying something that I say. So of course I'm going to defend him on this because he says exactly what I say and he's getting all kinds of internet trouble. So he's even trending. Sam Harris is on Twitter today and he quit Twitter. So one way to trend on Twitter is to quit Twitter.

So here's what he said. This is a, well I think he said this. It's a quote. I didn't see it on video, but it sounds like he would have said it, so I believe it's true. So here's a quote from Sam Harris. During the pandemic we witnessed the birth of a new religion of contrarianism and conspiracy thinking, the first sacrament of which is to, quote, do your own research. Does that sound familiar? It goes on. The problem is that very few people are qualified to do this research, and the result is a society driven by strongly held unfounded opinions on everything from vaccine safety to the war in Ukraine.

Agree or disagree? That's not word salad. Are you kidding? You're in cognitive dissonance if it sounds like word salad. This is completely clear. This is very clear. All right. Here's why I agree with him. He did not exclude himself from the category of people who can't do their own research and get a good answer,

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right? He did not say this is a skill I have but you don't have it. Now if he had, then we'd have something to quibble with. But if you say none of us have that, you know, except very rarely somebody in the field, then I'm on board with that completely. Yeah, no, nobody has that skill. And even the most qualified people in the field often don't have it. We see this all the time. Yeah. So does that…

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