t of the time. So your starting point should be 99 percent likely not true. If you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true, as probably true because the CIA says it's true, as probably true because all of the networks are reporting it, if you started from that perspective you've learned nothing. None of those are good sources. None of them are credible even a little bit. Not even directionally. They are not useful for this sort of thing.

So you should have said on the surface of it 99 percent likely fake. Leave open a little chance. 100 percent would be stupid. No, 100 percent would be wrong because you know we could be surprised. You've been surprised before. But start with 99 percent fake. Don't believe anything the fake news tells you because they're not part of the information structure. They're part of the disinformation system. Let me say it again. The point of the news is to keep you uninformed. That's not hyperbole. That's not politics. That is an actual accurate description of what the news is intended to do. It is intended to mislead you for the benefit of the country or for the benefit of rich people or for somebody's benefit. Usually somebody thinks it's good for something. But no, the news is not its purpose to tell you what's true. It's to frame the stories in ways that are good for the people in power and that's it.

So number one, extraordinary stories are almost always false. Number two, it fit the classic form of a mass hysteria. It was a whole bunch of people who said oh you got hurt by a sonic weapon. I think I'm hurt by a sonic weapon. And then the third person hears it goes you know I didn't get to sleep last night. I wonder if it's that sonic weapon. And then somebody else says my sinuses have been acting up all week. It's probably that sonic weapon. And then the next thing you know the sonic weapon's being used at other embassies in other parts of the world. Okay this is the classic, most obvious, perfect form of a mass hysteria.

And now you say to yourself but Scott there were early reports of people with actual brain damage and it showed up in the scans and the physical damage was unquestionable and it was lots of doctors in different places were all getting the same answers. Yes something happened. They're damaged. And what did I say? Nope, nope, none of that's true.

And then you could have said in your mind Scott this is a whole bunch of doctors, doctors operating independently on all kinds of different people in different parts of the world and you're telling me that all of those doctors who have nothing to gain by being wrong that they all just fell for this mass hysteria? Is that what you're trying to get me to believe Scott? Yes be