Back to episode — Episode 960 Scott Adams - Fake News, Bad Math, Bad Mind-Reading, Bad Behavior in the News
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emic. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens right now. Go. I feel the fake news fading away. The veil is lifted from my eyes. Yeah. So let's talk about a few things. So as you know, the drug remdesivir has reportedly shown some promise in reducing the virus, but there's no report or no evidence that it reduces death rate. But we're still pretty darn excited about this drug that doesn't chang…
← Previous segment →t's say you vaccinate four billion. How much profit? Well, not profit, but how much gross revenue is that if you vaccinate four billion people at a thousand dollars a piece? Well, let me do the math for you. Or actually allow me to have someone do the math for me. Alexa, what is four billion times a thousand? Four billion is four trillion. Four trillion dollars.
Has there ever been any product or any company that ever sold one thing and made four trillion dollars in the first year? Now if you were on the brink of making four trillion dollars... Oh yes, thank you. It's not a vaccine, but one assumes that many people would take it if it works. So it's not a vaccine. That's correct.
So could we worry that maybe our, I don't know, science could be influenced by four trillion dollars? And somebody says, well, Bill Gates is just an angel, right? I'm blocking you for being an idiot. All right, I'm just going to block all the people who think that Bill Gates is the devil, because I've reached the end of that stupidity. If you're so stupid that you think Bill Gates is in it for the money, please don't follow me. Please. I don't know what you k
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now. I can't read Bill Gates's mind, but he's not in it for the money. I'm going to block anybody who suggests that. You just aren't smart enough to follow any of this if you think that's the case. All right, sorry. In the news on Fox News, it says that Schiff is panicked. He's panicked about the transcripts, the interviews about the so-called Russia collusion situation that turned out to be noth…
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