Episode 1451 Scott Adams: The Worst Arguments For and Against Mask Mandates, Simone Biles, Biden Quote, More
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The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, everything, it s called the " simultaneous sip and watch it happen now" hit. Plus, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more. Guests: Dr. Bruce Schneier, infectious disease researcher at the University of Colorado, and Scott Adams, co-host of the podcast "Coffee with Scott Adams"
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My favorite fake news of the day, and this is a good one.
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Do you remember the, of course you do, the famous Laurel and Yanni,
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and some people could hear the word Yanni on the same recording?
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And we thought to ourselves, how is that possible?
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And it must be like a trick that only applies to this one weird set of sounds
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that they could sound the same while being different.
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It turns out it's really easy to reproduce this effect,
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So somebody cleverly took his video where he was talking to the press,
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Asking for a clarification of a question that he didn't hear
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Now, when you watch it, can you hear him say over the noise of the crowd
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you were probably primed by the social media video
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So you see Biden walking up to the photographers and the reporters,
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And you really can't hear anything else after you've been primed.
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Even after I heard what the White House claims,
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and I'm thinking, nope, even his lips are not going in the right way.
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Even his lips didn't seem to match up with what must be what.
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Now, I think that he did not say, my butt's been wiped.
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But how many times are we going to see this trick?
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This trick is going to happen a lot in politics.
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Is there one topic that you're so damn sick of?
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Not only in the real world, but talking about it?
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But I'm going to try to take an angle into this
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that's a little more interesting than the normal one.
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that the Delta variant is raging through the country,
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and that they want school kids to get to wear masks,
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Even vaccinated people should wear masks indoors
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if they're in a higher substantial transmission area.
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And, of course, they want vaccinations as much as they can get.
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Is your interpretation that the CDC looked at the data,
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wait, you're punishing the people who did the right thing.
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which is the right thing according to my government.
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which, of course, you'd have to get to transmit.
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is to create one more reason to get a vaccination.
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didn't get the benefit that they thought they would get,
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I think this is so that the government could say,
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Because if you had listened to us the first time,
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We know you hate it more than you hate anything.
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because you didn't listen to us the first time.
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Can you handle the fact that I think masks work
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that a vaccinated person should be forced to wear one?
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But if you're vaccinated, you shouldn't get one.
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And I'm going to go with my personal conspiracy theory.
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if there's more than one or two people in the world
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that made it look like the flu was killing people.
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a few hundred-year-olds die with the seasonal flu,
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And she said she was having mental health issues.
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And so she was dropping out for her mental health.
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who dropped out because she wasn't feeling well?
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you know you're representing the country, right?
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which is, we don't know what's going on in her head.
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If what's happening in her head is really, really bad,
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If it's not that bad, well, then it would, you know,
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you could argue that she should have sucked it up or something.
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and she was genuinely concerned about her health,
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that she might hurt herself competing in that way,
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or at least embarrass herself and embarrass the country.
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Now, of course, I have a larger filter on the Olympics,
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And then it ruins the lives of young people,
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although she had a great life from her skills so far.
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where her life will never be the same because of this.
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So I don't think the Olympics should be respected.
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And you know that people who have looked at the existing evidence say,
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you should at least take a try on the ivermectin.
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And you've heard Brett Weinstein say that famously.
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my favorite critic of all things data and analysis,
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that one of the ones that probably influenced the average the most,
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So there might be one weak study that's biasing the whole thing.
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And the Cochrane Review, I think, agreed with that
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and said that the quality of the evidence is so low
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that there's no evidence that ivermectin works.
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They did not say the evidence shows it doesn't work.
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They've only debunked that the evidence shows it does work,
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They're just saying there's no evidence that it works.
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Now, that's what Andreas Beckhaus said early on.
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So if you're keeping score of who gets things right early,
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So I don't have an opinion on any of this analysis
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But the second one has the same problem, allegedly.
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their opinion is there's no evidence that it works
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maybe 100% of all the arguments I've ever had about masks
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Because I want to see if you're in any of these categories
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that are logic errors as opposed to data errors.
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Now, we could argue all day about who has the right data,
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if you've got somebody who can help you sort through it.
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And I'm going to start with the most debunked mask arguments.
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So there's two things that could be wrong here.
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So I'm going to keep my humility while I say this,
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you know, there's always a recording in my head
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All right, so here are the debunked anti-mask arguments.
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that you would discover that science in general,
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If you think that science says masks don't work,
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You won't find any actual scientist who says that.
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talks about how these tiny differences multiply.
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either because you're not getting enough oxygen
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Well, there's no evidence that masks have hurt anybody.
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according to at least this professor in Oxford.
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There's no evidence that the masks have hurt anybody.
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So if your argument was wearing the mask itself
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That's why your mask is moist when you take it off.
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but if you're stopping that hose cannon of virus
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going directly into the person you're talking to,
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it's better than having something go out the side
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So the argument about masks leak around the edges
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because the masks are not stopping all the virus.
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then you don't have to argue about the little stuff.
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None of that matters if you've looked at the whole population
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but all the places that they didn't have masks,
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but if you accept that masks worked to lower infections,
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then all of the arguments about the holes in the masks
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Here are some of the worst arguments I've saw this morning.
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The Mayo Clinic tells you how to properly wear a mask.
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I have links of studies from before the pandemic
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What good is your data from before the pandemic?
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If it clearly shows it does work during the pandemic,
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it's on you if you don't know it at this point.