Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ink it would, right? So everything about this topic is literally the fodder for a humorous movie. Or you read it, you go, okay that's kind of funny. We'll get to some more of those. But let's talk about some other news. Thanks to Owen for all these little scientific tidbits that I see on X. So there's an alcohol addiction drug. Perhaps it's too soon to know, but in the course of testing somethin…

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bly place a large bet against it because it's a little bit too good. You know when you hear that cancer has been cured by something that sounds too good to be true, it's probably too good to be true, probably not true. So this one's probably in the too-good-to-be-true category. And it was only, I think there were only six people that they looked at. So six people is by no means telling you that it works or that it's safe. But if all six people dramatically reduced their alcohol intake, I wouldn't ignore it. It's not proof, but I wouldn't ignore six out of six.

All right. There's a new Chinese app, just what we need, a new app that's getting tons of downloads. And apparently what it does is it creates these little dramas that run for like a minute, but there are lots of them so they form a body of work after a while. And they're really cheesy and they're like little soap operas with bad actors overacting in a soap opera way. But apparently middle-aged women just love this thing. So it's got millions of downloads. It's called ReelShort. Real as in two E's. ReelShort. And just so you know it's coming.

Now my question is this. These little soap operas, they have one thing in common. To make it a dramatic soap opera you have to have people really dysfunctional. You know, people are cheating and that baby doesn't belong to you and all that stuff. Do you think all of that works against, let's say, traditional famili

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es? Do you think watching continuous content showing people cheating on their spouses and every manner of bad behavior, I feel like it's not exactly a good message. And then it makes me wonder, huh. So TikTok got to the younger kids, and China owns it, knows at least could control it if they want to. So that would give China the user interface to control the minds of our young people. Now they hav…

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