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Back to episode — Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25

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n today's world, if they're building cities that could make people happier, or maybe they're helping to treat problems that the government is not treating. Maybe they're making health care affordable. Maybe they're making transportation affordable. So the billionaires need to step up and the alternative would be being taxed out of their money and then the money goes where it would not be well emp…

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said, quote, "I believe the adverse events from regular old vaccines" — so we're not talking about COVID, just the vaccines that kids get — "are far more common than we imagined, including things like allergies." So he thinks his weed allergy might be because of something called adjuvants that were in his early childhood vaccinations. He said one of his sons has seasonal allergies that are pretty bad. The other has an allergy to dairy that's pretty bad.

And then he says given all that education that I've now painfully received, meaning he's done a pretty deep dive on the vaccine world and he is qualified to understand that stuff scientifically. If I had to do it all over again, I would not end up giving any vaccines to my newborn children.

Wow. I am so glad that I don't have newborn children because this would be — I mean this is a big decision. It used to feel like it was automatic like of course you get vaccinations. You know the scientists all say you should do it. Of course you would.

But here's what Brett says. This is the important part. He says, "I'm not saying it's impossible that any of them are more beneficial than they are harmful, but now I note that I cannot trust the safety testing." So his opinion is based on the fact that we now know that the safety testing has been inadequate forever.

So being very careful here. He's not saying he knows that these are the problem. He is saying he knows that you can't tell and that his personal decision if he had to make it now would be to not vaccinate children. That is pretty extreme, but also I would say perfectly backed up by observation. And I'm obviously not qualified to do a deep dive on vaccinations, but he is and he has. And so it's a pretty shocking development.

So how much did you used to trust science and how much do you trust it today? Was there ever a time when you thought the climate scientists were nailing it and that they were totally legit and that big pharma must have been forced to do good science or else the stuff wouldn't be approved? And now it kind of looks the opposite, doesn't it?

Now we know that at least half of all scientific studies are not reproducible. We watched the pandemic pervert science like we didn't think was possible. And now we're coming to understand that even climate science, you know, one of the biggest most important domains we thought was probably full of the least qualified scientists who are not exactly being scientific. That they may have just been following the money if you know what I mean.

So that goes all the way back to do you vaccinate your baby. That's a big difference from even what I thought. I mean I've been skeptical about the power of science and how much might be fraudulent. I've been skeptical for a long time but not this skeptical. I mean, I've just fallen off a ledge in terms of trusting science. Probably some of you, too.

Well, remember I keep saying that if robots were going to be launched in 2026 and if those robots would be the general kind, they could learn something and be your butler that we would already see them in the lab.

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Well, interestingly, Sawyer Merritt on X is reporting that Tesla has a bunch of new job openings for their Optimus robot program. And Elon Musk was saying that the Optimus version three, which must be the version they're working on in the lab, has a new hand. That's an incredible piece of engineering. So apparently I've heard Elon say this before that the Optimus robot hand has finally broken thr…

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