Episode 900 Scott Adams - Why I Have Decided to Identify as Woman to Lower My #Coronavirus Risk

Episodes › Episode #900 › Segments

NewsReaction General Commentary

Back to episode — Episode 900 Scott Adams - Why I Have Decided to Identify as Woman to Lower My #Coronavirus Risk

Context —

story than you know. And it goes way beyond Peter Navarro. So I was aware at the time of a disagreement within the staff about how seriously to treat it and how to advise the president and how he should deal with it. So I can tell you just from a little bit I know from the peripheral that none of it's being reported accurately. So I wish I could tell you a little bit more of what I know, but it do…

← Previous segment →

scientifically compatible. Vitamin A, maybe he knows more than I do. Well of course he knows more than I do on that topic. So I don't really have an opinion on it.

Is there something else specifically that you think... I'm vouching if I understand his opinion on Fauci. It is that fact he has some connections to some pharmaceutical companies that may have an interest in their pharmaceutical solutions. Is that what you're talking about? Because why would I have an opinion on that? It's either true or false, right? It's either true that Dr. Fauci has a financial working relationship with a pharmaceutical company that also has, I think maybe their remdesivir or whatever that one is. But that's just a known fact, right? So why would I have an opinion on it?

Now somebody who works in the business that he works in, it should be fairly predictable that he would have connections with major pharmaceutical companies. So wouldn't you expect anybody at his level to give speeches for... you'd expect that at some point maybe he got funded for a trial. You know, maybe they supported him in some way when he was fighting AIDS. So of course. And the same reason that you could guarantee that a President Trump probably owns some investment as something to do with hydroxychloroquine. And probably I do too, by the way. I mean I probably have some fund that I don't know about that's got some stock in a company that maybe. So I guess I don't ha

Context —

ve a comment about that. It's something you should watch. And if you think that that's the reason that Fauci is saying that hydroxychloroquine is unproven and maybe we should wait, well I would say he should say that no matter what. So you'd have to find something that Fauci has said or recommended that he would not say or recommend absent a connection to some pharmaceutical company. So here's a…

Next segment → →

← ← Previous segment

Next segment → →

Wisdom from this episode

"It's either true or false, right? So why would I have an opinion on it?"

Verifiable facts are either true or false; there's no need to hold or express an opinion on them.

"Somebody who works in the business that he works in, it should be fairly predictable that he would have connections with major pharmaceutical companies."

Anyone operating at a high level in medicine or research should be expected to have connections to major pharmaceutical companies.

"You could guarantee that a President Trump probably owns some investment that has something to do with hydroxychloroquine. And probably I do too, by the way. I mean I probably have some fund that I don't know about that's got some stock in a company that maybe."

Through investments and funds, most people—including presidents and critics—likely have indirect stakes in competing drugs or companies without even realizing it.