Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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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…

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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 have a similarly addictive app that's aimed directly at older women. Older as in the mid-range. Is that a coincidence? Or is that part of a plan to weave their content around the brains of Americans so that they can tweak it as they need to?

You know, Elon Musk does the best job of calling out the fact that our big problem is underpopulation. Do you think that this app will cause people to want to form families and have children? Or is it going to make it look like just a landmine if you even get in a relationship? I feel if you watch enough content where people have bad relationships that's going to have an impact on you. So I would be worried about a second front in China's ability to control our minds. That's real.

Well, going back to my category of wokeness jumping the shark, turns out that Jewish students are suing my other alma mater. Is it alma mater or alma mater? Right, alma mater. Okay, my alma mater Berkeley. So months ago I disavowed Berkeley for being a racist college. So I didn't want to have anything to do with them. And if I knew where my diploma was I'd set it on fire because I feel embarrassed to be associated with Berkeley. Literally embarrassed.

And now Jewish groups are suing Berkeley for what they claim is just an out-of-control anti-Jewish policy. I guess there are some groups that don't allow Jewish people to join. What? There are some student groups that forbid Jewish people from joining them. I mean just hold that in your head for a second. Anyway, now obviously these gro

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ups are special purpose groups or whatever, so they would say no it's not about anti-Jewish, it's more about who's in. So it's not about who's out. It's about having a club for ourselves. But the effect of it might be to just be purely racist. So to me I think it's funny that the most liberal college in the world is being sued by its Jewish students for being racist. Isn't that funny? To me that'…

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