Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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Let's talk about all the stuff in the news. So over in Italy, I saw a thread from, I guess it was a doctor in a hospital over in Italy, where they're being hit hard with the coronavirus. And apparently it's Night of the Living Dead, bodies piling up, whatever's the worst you could imagine, that's happening in the Italian hospitals right now because of the coronavirus. Meanwhile some as yet publicl…

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So let's talk about some other stuff. The dumbest thing that I hear in politics lately is coming from Bernie Sanders and people who say the same thing. And they say that President Trump doesn't believe in science. Now I don't think there's anybody who doesn't believe in science. What does that even mean? There's nobody who doesn't believe in science. Now of course they'll point to climate change, but that's because the critics can't tell the difference between economics and science. What President Trump called a hoax, he wasn't saying I'm a scientist, I've looked at the science, blah blah. He was talking about the Paris agreement and the economic implications, which clearly were pretty sketchy. Now was that a belief? Who knows. But you know we can't read his mind. But the point is there was no point at which the president didn't believe in science. That's different than not believing the scientists, and it's different from believing that scientists might have control of the science but no control of the economic implications, which are the part you actually do something about, you know, beyond inventing stuff. So it is so dishonest to call anybody anti-science. It just bugs me more than other stuff. You know it's different than other lies because you could say this person did X, maybe it's a lie, maybe they did not do X. That's just a plain lie. That's bad enough. But to blame somebody for doing something that isn't a thing is sort of like a double lie. It's a lie on the stupid. It's something like blaming your opponent for dematerializing and traveling to another planet by his thoughts and throwing the revolution on the other planet and returning by beaming himself back to this planet. Okay that was a terrible example but the point is it didn't happen and it couldn't happen. So blaming somebody for something that doesn't even exist is just the height of political stupidity. And people are buying it.

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All right, let's talk about Joe Biden because I think we have to. As the New York Times put it, I read this somewhere and I think it was on the Fox News site, quote, "prominent Democrats began publicly insisting that the ticket, the Joe Biden ticket, include a woman, preferably a black woman." All right, so now it's being widely reported that the important Democrat people want a black woman on the…

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