Back to episode — Episode 455 Scott Adams - Aspirin, The Rise of White Supremacist Violence, False Memories
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hing we can do. So would it be great if you thought universal basic income was a terrible idea, somebody does a test and it worked out great? Wouldn't you be pleased? What's the other thing that would please you? You thought all along it was a bad idea. Somebody did a test and it clearly didn't work. Now you're a genius. You knew all along. You should always be in favor of the test. Now if you li…
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I would like to invite anybody on to this Periscope as a guest. You can just click the option that says you want to be picked as a guest to join me specifically on the question of the 97% of climate scientists being on the same side. So if you believe that 97% or even 100% of scientists are on the same side on climate change, I want to talk to you to see if I can reprogram your beliefs. So this is an offer to reprogram anybody who believes that 97% of scientists are on the same side when it comes to climate change. I want to talk to you live if you believe that's true.
All right, what do you think is more dangerous, the rise of white supremacists or the press? So I've told you that white supremacists killed 18 people in 2017. So that's their death count. Let's say it doubles. You know maybe there's 30 or so people killed per year by white supremacists which is way too many, way too many. But let's compare it to the death toll from the press.
Right, so here are some things that the press has done. The press gave us weapons of mass destruction. Now you could say that really that was the government fooling the people but I would argue that if the people were not on board with war in Iraq it couldn't have happened. So the press by promoting the fake news that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction probably caused the death of millions of Iraqis and thousands of Americans. So I'll say the press has killed say three million people or whatever it is in Iraq. I don't know what the number is but something in that range.
What about the press, let's say, the way they treat climate change. If climate change is real, real in the sense that it's a dire emergency and human caused, so that's what the press has been promoting. If that's true then it's also true that they have not been promoting the only thing that could fix it which is new designs of nuclear power, the so-called generation four that don't have a risk of meltdown and don't really have much of any other risk. And we know how to make them. We should iterate a few more times bu
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t we also know how to iterate. So if the press is telling us we're doomed but the solution they're pushing, something like a Green New Deal, would make things worse, then the press is putting the entire planet at risk by not focusing on the only solution which is nuclear. All right, so I would say that the press is putting, let's say, another billion people at risk. If the press is accurate about…
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