Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ed off, meaning it might not have been political. Might have been a dirty trick or something that they reversed. Okay, all right. Well, maybe that's already fixed. There's a brand new blood test that can detect cancer in two hours, and it doesn't cost much. It's like just a few bucks. Um, wouldn't that change everything? A blood test that can accurately find cancer in two hours and it doesn't cos…

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ot part of my expertise? I think that's half right. Here's the half that's right: I cannot tell you how to make a relationship work. Nope, no idea. The best I have for you is that when two good people meet young and get together when they're young, often it works great. I hear otherwise. I don't have any advice, no advice whatsoever.

But I would like to push back on Andrew's comment that I have not mastered relationship skill. I would say I very much know what doesn't work, because relationships are two parts: what works, and then avoiding what doesn't work. You don't think I'm an expert on what doesn't work? Come on. Who are you going to ask? Test me. You give me a standardized test on what doesn't work. Well, I'm going to get 100% on that one. Now if you give me another test of what does work, I'll be like, I don't know. I feel like it just depends on the two people. If you have two good people and they have some chemical attraction, probably it works every time just because they're good people. You know, people who can consider the other person's feelings and then adjust on their own without being told to, you know, like good functioning people, that probably works every time.

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But if you only have one functioning person or no functioning people, I don't think your love language is going to fix that. "Yeah, well you're an abusive alcoholic, but maybe if I gave you gifts, maybe that would turn things around." No, no. Your abusive alcoholic gifts are not going to turn it around. Here's another "follow the money" for you. How many of you are alarmed, you should be, that in…

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