Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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of the day, the thing that makes everything, including the pandemic, better. I just realized you can't spell "pandemic" without "damn." Probably doesn't mean anything. But aside from the simultaneous sip... oh, the pandemic. I guess you can't spell it without "damn." You can't spell it without "damn." Wait a minute, wait a minute. You can't spell "pandemic" without "panic." All right. So her

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e's the most fun story of the day. Most of you have seen on social media a chart that seemed to show that the number of pneumonia deaths this year fell off a cliff just when we started reporting the coronavirus deaths. And the implication is that regular pneumonia was being classified incorrectly as coronavirus deaths, because why would the pneumonia deaths suddenly just disappear when they've never done that in any other year? This month, all the other years had a somewhat similar curve except this one year. Boop.

Now to catch you up, I saw that chart and said to myself, that looks like a fake chart. And so I challenged the world to debunk it or not debunk it. And pretty soon there was a debunker. But then, as I reported yesterday, there was a debunker of the debunker. So I started out thinking, well, it's debunked. And then somebody d

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ebunked the debunking, and I thought, well, maybe it's not. But I'm going to show you how to end an argument. You've never seen an argument ended as eloquently as the one I'm going to end right now. And this is with the help of Tyler Morgan, whose profile says he's a freelance data scientist, software developer, business analyst, and mining engineer. So he's a freelance data scientist. That's exa…

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