Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Somebody says another umbrella agent was spotted at the White House protests. Yeah I saw some pictures. Who knows how real they are of people with umbrellas and they seem to have little wires, you know, the kind that Secret Service would have for an earpiece. But I don't even know if those pictures are real. It could have been easily photoshopped or something. The left is breathlessly saying it's…

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Oh yes. So I forgot to mention. So you know there was that big Lancet article saying that there had been a study showing that hydroxychloroquine was dangerous and it killed more people than it saved. And then the World Health Organization, the very dependable World Health Organization, decided to stop all the trials everywhere in the world of hydroxychloroquine.

Now turns out that the Lancet article looks like it's being essentially debunked by The Lancet itself. They found a bunch of problems after the fact. So even The Lancet is recanting basically and saying there's not enough information to make a determination. So in other words the study doesn't tell you anything and now The Lancet is saying that.

But more interesting, I just read it. I tweeted this. You should read about how this study was put together. If you think the Steele dossier was a bunch of, you gotta read how this, it wasn't The Lancet, it just was the article was in The Lancet so it wasn't Lancet's fault. But apparently all the data came from basically one company that purported that it got the data from all the different hospitals. But everybody smart who knew enough about the situation looked at what they had and said I don't think you really could do that. Like it seemed impossible that they would have the data they said they had. And then you dig a little deeper and it's a company of five people. And you dig a little deeper but it's really just one guy. You dig a little deeper and it's one guy that didn't exist before February.

It's basically the entity that came up with the study used a source of data the source of which is about as credible as a Nigerian prince asking you for money to help him get his fortune. And at the end of the day it is hilariously non-credible. Meaning if you read about it, so just look at my Twitter feed if you want to read the details, but a doctor looked into it and found there's just no credibility to it.

So the World Health Organization once again did the wrong thing. Now if you're checking my record against the World Health Organization I'm up to what, six and now? Every time I've disagreed with the World Health Organization I've been proven correct. I'm not saying I'm a medical expert. I make no such claim. I'm simply pointing out that if you were to compare our track records I have done far superior in medical recommendations than the World Health Organization.

Do you know who else has been more accurate than the World Health Organization? Magic 8-ball, coin flip, monkey with a dart, me Scott Adams. I didn't mean to say me Scott Adams directly after monkey with a dart. Simply these are entities. Kreskin. Trump. Basically everybody in the world. That's so funny. The World Health Organization is literally the least credible health organization in the world.

What do you call the most irrelevant medical organization? WHO. It's like the simulation just wanted them to be called WHO because that's what you call irrelevant things. Who? Hey did you hear about the irrelevant person? Who? Of course not. Nobody's heard of irrelevant things. Who?

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All right well I think I beat that horse. All right that's all for now. I will talk to you in the morning. You know where.

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