ions and whatnot. And there is an expert on vaccinations, I guess, or some expert in that field who's relevant, Professor Peter Hotez. He's an MD and a PhD. And I guess on Twitter at least he was critical of RFK Jr.'s claims. So Joe Rogan invited Professor Peter Hotez to appear with RFK Jr., the two of them on the show. And here's the best part: no time limit. No time limit.

Now Elon Musk weighed in, and Elon was very much in favor of this idea. And I think Joe Rogan offered a hundred thousand dollars to charity if they would debate. Other people on the internet, Bill Ackman and a number of other rich people said I'll give you a hundred thousand, I'll give you a quarter million. Somebody said they'd offer half a million. I'm not sure that's true, but you know, you can see people were trying to jump on board and fund it. Now the funding would be for charity.

And Musk actually started mocking Hotez in public by saying he must not like charity, you know, jokingly, but trying to put a little pressure on him to do it. Now how happy are you? He's so far not agreed to it, at least as of a few minutes ago. Do you think he will? Do you think he'll take it?

Now I'm going to be charitable here. He's a critic, but that does not mean he would be the best person to debate in public. Simply being an expert and a critic does not make you as capable as Joe Rogan talking in public, and it does not make you nearly as capable as RFK Jr. talking in public. So it could be that it's just not the format that his skills fit. I don't know. That's just me speculating. There could be an obvious reason why he wouldn't want to do it which had nothing to do with his confidence in his point.

But if he doesn't do it, don't you think you could find another expert to do it? Don't you think you could find somebody else who has a similar view, who's also an expert, who would love to get on there and debate RFK Jr. and embarrass him in front of the world?

So I think this is one of the best outcomes in a long time. We're finally on the cusp of the internet delivering two experts to argue in front of you with no time limit. That's what we need. That's everything. Now if it happens, I mean, maybe it won't be perfect the first time. You know, maybe the people ramble on too much. Anything could happen. But there is nothing that is more positive, more useful, a better signal for the country than what Joe Rogan is doing right now.

Joe Rogan saving the country, or I would say that today or this week Joe Rogan did more for the country than Congress if he pulls this off. If he pulls it off, he's doing more for civilization — it's not just the country — he's doing more for civilization than the entire government if he can pull this off. Right? It's that important. I'd love to see it because there's no mainstream media company that could do that. Do you know why? Obviously they're all funded by Big Pharma. So if you're funded by Big Pharma, there's no freaking way you can host a debate on any of this stuff.

So it's the perfect thing at the perfect time with at least one of the people would be the perfect person. We hope the other one says yes. And this would be frankly amazing. Because I have to tell you, I don't know who's right. And unlike my usual artificial certainty, I don't even lean one way. I just don't know.

I'm pretty sure that if you're on the right, you only see things that agree with you. If you're on the left, you only see things that agree with you. I've seen both, right? If you don't go look for the other side, you'll never see it because the other side argument, whatever the other side is, you know that your algorithm has locked you in a bubble. You're going to see countless anti-vaccine stuff. Once you get in the bubble, you will never see the other side. You've got to go Google and look for it. I've done it. All right. I know that it's not going to come to me naturally. I've got to go look for it.

If you do, you're going to come away with some humility, to use Art's word. You're going to come away with some humility. And the humility is listening to that one person or that one side did not serve you. It did not serve you because you haven't heard the other side. So please, please, let's make this work.

All right. Chris Hayes tweeted about this situation, and MSNBC's Chris Hayes, he says, "Very cool to watch all these millionaires and billionaires push in the anti-vax line that has killed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of working people." So I retweeted him and said, "Confidence and data on any topic feels absurd in 2023."

Doesn't it feel absurd to see a talking head act with some certainty about the science? Now I'm not even saying he's wrong. I'm not claiming he's wrong. I'm claiming that I don't know. And if he says he knows, that's almost like a mental problem. I mean, it would seem like what would that be? What's the name of that syndrome where you think you're smarter than you are? What's that called with the two names? Why am I blanking on that? You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, Dunning-Kruger. Dunning-Kruger. Doesn't that seem like Dunning-Kruger to you?

And again, he might be right, but it would only be by accident. You don't think he has some mastery of that data that you don't. Do you think he's seen the same data that you've seen? Or do you think that Chris Hayes, because like all of us, once he starts interacting with a certain kind of information, it's all he sees. It's all that gets fed to him. It's all anybody talks about in his circle.

But I love the fact that he's mocking the millionaires and billionaires for pushing an anti-vax line. Is that what you say when Joe Rogan and Elon Musk and all the other people kicked in, when they were begging the two experts to debate in public? That was pushing an anti-vax line? Asking the person who is the most positive about vaccines and an expert, we will pay you any amount of money — well, not him actually, to charity I guess. What will it take? Please dear God, can you get on and inform us in a way that is credible with somebody who can challenge you? Literally begging for better information.

And Chris Hayes says that they're anti-vax. Begging for both sides. Like it's the main thing they're spending time on today, is to get both sides of the argument, and they can't get it so far. And that's anti-vax. Wanting both sides.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to read you my "robots read news" comic that you could see if you were a subscriber to the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com. But as you know, the robots never move. They're just reading the news. One robot, Androba, says, "President Biden expects to spend at least half of his summer vacation in the afterlife. He has a cloud next to Queen Elizabeth and he is reportedly disturbed every time the wind blows up her flowing robe. So Biden asked God to save the queen." God save the queen.

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