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Back to episode — Episode 2959 CWSA 09/15/25

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That, I mean, all you can say about that is wow. That's all from one person. I don't know if this is new, but I saw a clip of Bill Maher praising the right's willingness to engage in dialogue. Actually, it is new. It's after Charlie Kirk's assassination. I should tell you that there are two accounts that I enjoy especially following because they summarize the news and that's really useful. So Jas…

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they will, with the exception, by the way, of Cenk, but one of the reasons I like Cenk Uygur, I think it's pronounced. I never know how to pronounce his last name, but Cenk is fabulous in letting you talk and doesn't like to be interrupted if you interrupt him. And I appreciate that as well. But even though I quite often disagree with Cenk, I've had two online conversations with him. He does not interrupt. He does not. And when you see that, it automatically infers some credibility to his point of view. And I think he's just sensational in showing you how to do this. All right. I know you have your problems with Cenk, but he's good on free speech. Really good.

Well, you're not surprised that 23andMe, the company that was taking your DNA and telling you all about yourself, they're going out of business, but they sold your DNA. Oh my God. They sold it or gave it to a nonprofit that the founder of the company apparently is involved with. So how many of you used 23andMe with the assumption that, well, there's no way they're going to sell my DNA to somebody without permission? Well, whatever was your worst-case assumption about your privacy of your DNA? Well, here it is. Your worst-case scenario. It's apparently just available for anybody who wants it. Now that's too far. It's not available for anybody who wants it, but it's definitely not protected. Definitely not protected.

Now, I will confess that I used 23andMe and like anybody who's paying attention, I was completely aware that my DNA would not be private ever again. I didn't care. I suspect it's unlikely that that will ever matter to me. I don't prefer it. It's not my first choice. I'd rather that nobody had access to my DNA unless I let them. But I don't really expect a problem. I mean, what would it be? Somebody makes a special poison that only works on me or something like that. I mean, what are the odds? So we can agree that if we had a choice, we would not have this happen, but probably not the biggest problem in the world.

All right. I continue to be amazed and baffled by the following. How many of you say that since the pandemic there's an obvious uptick in turbo cancers? How many think that's a true statement? Since the pandemic, there is an obvious, confirmed, major uptick in cancers. True. True or false? What do you say? The answer is true-ish. So here's how you get two movies on one screen. How can it be both true and false? It is. It's both true and false. I remember the way I worded the question was, is there a major uptick in cancer since the pandemic? That is confirmed mostly in the young apparently. So the young are having an especially tough time and

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oncologists are seeing lots of the young come in with cancers that sometimes they've never seen. So the young have a big uptick in cancer. So therefore, it's true that there's a big uptick in cancer since the pandemic and therefore logically it's either from the vaccinations or it's from the COVID itself but you believe it's from the vaccinations. All right. How can it be true that there's a big u…

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