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know why the researchers didn't get the answer 100? Because researchers don't know what's true. They only have an opinion of what is a conspiracy. You know, some of them they might have a good enough debunk that they know for sure. But there's no such thing as a researcher like a living human being who knows what all the conspiracies are and which ones are not conspiracies. That's not a thing. Tha…

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was correlated with autistic symptoms. And I don't think this is necessarily the kind of thing where there'd be some other confusing cause. They probably got a pretty clean data set into that.

So here's the thing. As monumental and historic as this week has been already and we'll talk about all that stuff, is it possible that RFK Jr. just solved the autism mystery? Did that actually happen? It's a little too early to know, but there is a nonzero chance and I would say pretty darn good because Tylenol has now been spotted in two completely different domains and with the same outcome. That's pretty convincing right now. Remember, half of all the scientific studies that ever get published, even the peer-reviewed ones, turn out to be not reproducible. But this is four different studies just on circumcision on top of multiple studies about pregnant women. That's getting a little bit hard to ignore, isn't it? A little bit hard to ignore.

So it could be that in a week of fantastical successes that we had one of the biggest ones we've ever had. If this is true and we can get to that next level of confirmation that Tylenol was the bad boy behind autism. Just think about that. Did RFK Jr. just almost cure autism in a way that would not have happened if he had not been in that role and pushed exactly the way he pushed and even had the VP running mate choice he did, Nicole Shanahan, because she's the big force behind all the autism stuff I believe. And I wouldn't even know what to say. I mean if this is true that RFK Jr. actually within one year, really on the timeline that he said he would, if he actually pulled this off, this is going to make a piece of the Middle East look like it was easy. No, I'm exaggerating. Peace in the Middle East is still pretty amazing. But the impact, my god, the size of the impact if he actually got a handle on this. I don't know. I don't think I've ever been more proud of an American government. You know, it's just not something I do. Not really proud of governments, but damn, if he pulled this off on top of what's already happened this week, damn.

Elon Musk says that Grok will soon be able to detect AI generated deepfakes. How awesome is that? One of the things we worry about the most is that we won't be able to tell what's real and what's not. But fortunately, there's this guy Elon Musk who really likes maximum truth seeking AIs. So if he's figured out a way that AI can detect deepfakes, that would be amazing. Again, if that was the biggest thing that happened this week, that'd be a big thing. I mean, I don't know if it works or if it'll work on every case, but if Elon says we'll be able to detect AI deepfakes with Grok, wouldn't that be amazing? That would be amazing.

All right. Trump's making some kind of announcement today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time from the Oval Office. I'm going to guess that it's just sort of bragging about the success with Gaza, giving us some details. You know, the country probably wants that, needs it. So that would be my guess what that's about. But I like to speculate that maybe he's going to announce that that big comet 31 Atlas that's going to come close to our solar system, we're in it I think, that it might be an alien spacecraft. Wouldn't that be fun with all the news that's happening today? Imagine if Trump got up there and said, "Oh, you know, we think we have peace in the Middle East and we think we've solved autism." And he just goes down the line and then he does a Steve Jobs. You know how Steve Jobs used to do it. You would think he was done with the rollout and then it's like he's walking away and goes, "Oh, one more thing." And then the one more thing is the big announcement. So wouldn't it be fun if he went through all the good news that happened this week? He goes, "Oh, one more thing. That comet, it's an alien spacecraft and we've been in touch with it for a year." I'm not going to predict that, but wouldn't that be fun?

All right, let's talk about Trump's success so far. I mean, it's looking good. And a little behind the curtain stuff about how we got it done.

Remember I told you early on that Trump was playing a brilliant game by taking the yes but no response from both Hamas and Israel, which are really

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no, right? If you say yes, I agree with this as long as I get these other things which are impossible and nobody's ever going to give me and then Israel says yes, I agree as long as we get these things that we're never going to get because the other side said there's no way you'll ever get that. So when I read it, I read it as a no. Both sides said yes so they would look reasonable but in the deta…

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