Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the new head, the guy that replaced Soleimani who was killed in the drone strike, so their new chief, he unveiled a coronavirus detection device that was a huge breakthrough in coronavirus detection. And you might be wondering why was it being introduced by Iran's Revolutionary Guard instead of some kind of medical group? Well it turns out that even Iran's own medical p…

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There's a weird little story about Chris Cuomo breaking quarantine because of course he has the coronavirus. And there's a story that he went and visited some other property he owns that was under construction and he got in an altercation with a bicycler who recognized him and thought he should be in quarantine. And if that's true then people are wondering what is this video of Chris Cuomo emerging from his basement for the first time if he's been driving around to places and visiting. Is he really emerging from his basement for the first time in two weeks? And here's my spin on it. Reality TV is not exactly reality. If you know what I mean, reality TV is always a little bit scripted, right? If you watch any reality TV show, all of the people involved have a little idea where the producers want them to go. They might go in their own way but the producers know where they want it to go. So when Chris Cuomo on the video emerged from the basement of his house, I guess his older daughter was videoing it, his reunion with his other daughters as his wife upstairs, and of course they couldn't hug or kiss or anything because he's still showing a little distance, but it was filmed as though it was the first moment that he had emerged from his basement. But is that a lie? Is it a lie because there's this other report that he was out of his basement and going somewhere? I'm gonna rank this as gray area. I rank it as gray area because the way the Chris Cuomo emerges from his basement video was presented, it could be interpreted as simply the first time he's going upstairs to where his family is. Now I don't know if he had to go upstairs to get out of the house but it could be interpreted as it really was the first time he was sort of in the same room with his family in two weeks. That could be, which would be true enough honestly. You know for my personal standards that would be true enough. Remember I'm the guy who says that when President Trump uses hyperbole, calling it a lie, they're sort of making too much of a big deal about it because it's exaggeration. If you just understand that you don't really need to fact check it if you understand what it is. Likewise if it's true that Chris Cuomo drove his car somewhere to get out of the house, maybe his family was there in a separate car, you don't know what the story was, and just visited a property, kept his distance, we know there was no report that he was getting close to anybody, right? So if in fact he left his house, visited a property, kept his distance, went back to his house, but the only time he'd ever gone upstairs in his own house was the video we saw, yeah that's close to reality. I'll give him a pass on that. So in the realm of news and reality it's close enough to true. It's close enough. He wasn't out aerosoling people. It's close enough. I give him a pass.

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I have a theory that all it will take for online education, which got a big boost of course from everybody staying home from school, etc., I think the only thing that's left for it to really just replace education in person in the classroom is a search engine. I think all you would need is a search engine that could find any class on a topic across all platforms. So right now there are a bunch of…

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