Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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serious person." Are you ready? Here are the two disgraced words in political commentary: "rant" and "obsessed." If you hear somebody say that somebody else ranted, the person who used the word, you should just mock them. "I'm sure they ranted, didn't they? Did they rant or did they simply talk? Which did they do? Did they rant? Was it ranting or was it just sort of talking?" They're not obsessed…

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of websites were broken, or was that just me? I don't know.

All right, I guess it was just me.

So there's a new obesity drug. Oh great. So now Big Pharma has found a way to battle Big Food. So Big Food is killing you with food that makes you fat. Big Pharma found a drug that will save you from the Big Food. Now I'm just guessing that that won't be the healthiest thing for you. I can't believe it's — I guess it's a diabetes drug. It's the second time there's been a different kind of diabetes drug that had a secondary use that would help you lose weight. And apparently it works. Yeah, the initial reports are it totally works.

Is that the worst thing you've ever heard? Now humans can eat as much crap as they want and they won't get fat as long as they have another drug in their body. Now I would think that the nutritional risk from eating foods that would normally make you fat but somehow you found a way not to make you fat — it's not Ozempic. There's actually a newer, better one. So the one you're thinking of that was a diabetes drug that has secondary use for losing weight, this is the third one of those. There's two of them that use the same drug, and then this is a new one that was just announced today. So it's not the Ozempic. All right, what's it called? Some other name. Doesn't matter.

I hate everything about this. Like on one hand it feels like it should be this great breakthrough that's going to help the obese, but it feels like it's going to make it worse. Does anybody get that feeling? That if you could take a drug that would allow you to eat like a glutton all day long and not gain weight — or does it not work

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that way? Oh, I think maybe it makes you not hungry. Is that what it does? Oh, it's an appetite suppressant. Okay, so maybe that's even — I don't know. Is that better or is that worse? If you suppress your appetite, what kind of food are you likely to eat? Healthy food that doesn't taste great? Or if you have a suppressed appetite, would you be drawn to sugary food? Here's what you need. You need…

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