Back to episode — Episode 1063 Scott Adams - Cognitive Dissonance in Trump Haters, Mask Science, Protests
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Well, the biggest news in the world might be the rain in China, because it's raining so hard that the so-called Three Gorges Dam, which is a pretty big dam — it's damn big — might actually break, which is a really big deal, a super big deal. So this would be a disaster on a level that would be hard to even calculate. It looks like it might happen. And one of the risks is that the factories that ma…
← Previous segment →All right. I announced today that I'm going to start blocking anybody who argues that the science has proven face masks won't help against the coronavirus. Okay, so don't say you weren't warned. You can have your opinion and you can tell other people. But here's my reasoning.
I'm not a scientist and I can't tell you definitively whether masks work or make things worse. But I can tell you that if you're also not a scientist and you go on and say definitively the science has proven masks don't work, I don't want you in my world now. Okay? Because that just hasn't happened. This is not true.
If it's true that you've never seen the studies, including yesterday in the Wall Street Journal showing that face masks make a gigantic improvement, if you've never seen those studies, then why not? I mean, I've seen both the ones that say they work and the ones that don't. And I've seen lots of them. Lots of studies that say they don't work. Lots of studies that say they do. If you haven't seen both, you shouldn't have an opinion.
So I'm only blocking people who are not aware of half of the world. I'm not blocking you because of your opinion. I'm blocking you because it's been long enough, right? You know, in the beginning it makes sense that you haven't been exposed to all the information, but now there's no excuse. At this point, if you are not aware that major publications are reporting that face masks, even the casual kind, do make a big difference, even if they're wrong — all right, this is important — even if they're wrong, if you're not aware of it, that's a problem.
All right. So I just — and I'm so bored by it. I guess I'm bored that people think that if they send me yet one more study from the past to say it doesn't work, that that will be the one study that changes my mind and makes me be irrational. It just doesn't work that way.
All right, so that was just my personal frustration. Probably had nothing to do with you.
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So here's a question I've been asking just because the answers are funny to me. It goes like this. After three and a half plus years of Trump — three and a half years, I guess is right — after three and a half years of Trump, we don't have to wonder what he'll do wrong because you've got three and a half years to look at it. So I like asking people, can you tell me what is the worst thing he's don…
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