Episode 1455 Scott Adams： I Dismantle My Haters While You Watch
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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135.33968
Summary
In this episode, I address some of my critics and try to explain why they think I have a bad take on vaccinations. I also try to prove that they are either hallucinating, or just not aware of what they're saying.
Transcript
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Well, people, today will either be the best or the worst coffee with Scott Adams of all
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Because what we're going to do is I'm going to address some of my critics.
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And I'm going to take some of their comments off of Twitter and address them in real time.
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So, listening from death row, Carl, are you really on death row?
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I think I have somebody on death row watching this.
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And if you would like to enjoy your last moments on Earth, whether you're on death row or not,
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all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask,
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So, some of you may have seen a tweet by Jack Posobiec, who said something kind about my, let's see, work ethic, I guess.
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And that caused a lot of people to jump in and say, well, they used to like me until my bad take on vaccinations.
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So, I said to myself, oh, I better find out what my bad take is, because that's kind of generic.
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There are people who were stopping from listening to me.
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And in the comments, how many of you would say the same?
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How many of you in the comments would say, oh, I liked him up until the bad take?
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Well, I'm seeing lots of no's, but lots of yeses, right?
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So, there are many of you here who believe I have a bad take.
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And I'm going to read a few of them from my Twitter feed.
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I said a lot of people say I have bad takes, and I invited people to tell me what I got wrong.
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So, these would be people who are going to tell me either what facts I got wrong or what logic I got wrong.
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Now, I contend that nearly all of them will be hallucinating.
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Is it possible that nearly all of my critics will actually be hallucinating in a way that you can even plainly see?
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Now, of course, this will not be my normal snappy show.
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The Blonde King is disagreeing me by saying, taking the vaccine instead of ivermectin clearly is a bad take.
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Will you notice that most of the people who disagree with me leave out the reason?
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I'd rather wait for a vaccine with less side effects and more efficacy.
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I'd rather have a vaccine with more efficacy and less side effects, but the next one that comes along, you're not going to have much more information.
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A lot of people who just went silent when I asked them to give me real evidence of where they disagree.
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Justavo says about me, you literally said I wanted vaccinations to be forced into U.S. citizens.
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Does anybody think that I said that I think a vaccination should literally be forced into citizens?
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I've said the opposite of that lots and lots of times, right?
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So here's somebody who took the time to come in and criticize me, whose belief is that my belief is the opposite of what it is.
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Now, so here's the first one who's clearly hallucinating or uninformed, right?
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Let's see if anybody else who disagrees with me has a reason, or are they hallucinating?
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William says, the idea that any long-term effect studies could be considered hard science for a virus that has only been around for the last 18 months seems preposterous.
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Also, you have the same level of expertise as I do on this issue, regardless of your track record.
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If my track record is the best in the business, which I actually contend it is,
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on medical decisions, I have the best track record in the pandemic.
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Now, that's partly because there are lots of issues I haven't weighed in at at all.
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I get to pick and choose the ones that I weigh in on.
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But I have the best track record, medically, of the whole pandemic.
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You said everyone is responsible for managing their own risks.
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Somebody that he said, the risks of COVID are not fully knowable, which I say all the time.
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The risks of the vaccination are not fully knowable.
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You shared how you made the decision to get vaxxed and how that framework may help.
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This is somebody who's actually agreed with me by being sarcastic.
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A lot of people just didn't give me any reasons here.
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Why would someone follow you for or consider you for vaccine advice?
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Because I have the best track record of analyzing the situation of anybody in the pandemic.
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And that doesn't mean you should follow any advice I give.
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Because I have the best track record of the pandemic.
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Why wouldn't you follow somebody with the best track record?
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Somebody says, you took the vaccine and it was barely tested.
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Because you have to compare the risks and the rewards and the benefits and look at me individually.
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It's not a horrible take to make a different decision than you did.
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If you don't know what's happening in my head, you don't know what my variables were to make the decision.
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Because part of what's happening in my head is not just the thinking about it.
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Somebody says, why not just save us all the time and actually clearly state your opinion first?
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For the vaccination, there are two types of risks.
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There's the risk of dying right away from the vaccination or from the coronavirus.
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And then there's the long-term risk, both from the coronavirus and from the vaccination.
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Would you agree with the setup, first of all, that a reasonable way to look at it is immediate risk versus long-term risk?
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And then if you've compared those, you kind of covered it all, right?
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The risk of dying or getting a serious illness within, let's say, a week of the vaccination.
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We're well past the point where we have to wonder about that.
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Because it's at least 10 to 1, 100 to 1 advantage, safety advantage overall, for getting the vaccination.
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Is there anybody who would disagree with the statement that now that lots of people have been vaccinated for over a week,
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that we know for sure that getting the vaccination is absolutely 10 times or maybe 100 times safer in general,
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not for any one person, but in general, we know the vaccination is about 10 to 100 times safer than the virus itself for the first week or two.
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Would anybody say that that's, anybody disagree with that?
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Because if the vaccination were killing more than the virus, that would be so obvious we would know it.
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Now, so we do know about the short-term risk, but that's not all of the risk, you'd all agree, right?
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Donald, Donald, do you really think, do you really think that we have evidence that more people are dying from the vaccination,
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of which the VARS database only has 12,000, and those are just suspected, so it might be a few thousand have died, maybe,
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and we don't even know that from the vaccination, a few thousand.
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The number of people who died from the virus is 275,000.
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So at this point, so let's back up in time a little bit.
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If you go back to before the first vaccination was given,
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hey, I'm worried about people dying in the first two weeks of getting the vaccination, so I'll wait.
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I had heard from scientists that the biggest risk of any vaccination usually happens pretty quickly.
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So I said to myself, I'll wait a couple months.
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So the risk of dying right away, I believe that's gone now.
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For all practical purposes, you don't have to worry about the short-term risk.
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Because we know the short-term risk is way, way better to get vaccinated.
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As of today, I tweeted around an article from April of this year.
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Because half of the things that get published in scientific journals are bullshit.
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Based on the study, half of the things that get peer-reviewed are just not true.
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Now, The Lancet psychiatry, I think, is different than The Lancet.
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But they found, let's see, they looked at 236,000 patients.
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They found that 34% of them were diagnosed with a neurological or mental health disorder following their bout with coronavirus.
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For nearly 13% of those patients, it was their first time receiving such a diagnosis.
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And first of all, if only 13% of them were getting that diagnosis for the first time,
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If all of the other people have had these same mental health diagnoses in the past,
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well, are you surprised that they had it during a pandemic?
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It should be the least surprising thing in the world, because everybody was mentally stressed.
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But there's clearly some indication of something to worry about.
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So I would say, rather than believing it, I'd say that there are a whole bunch of scientists who think,
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Now, I told you that there's another study that says up to 25% of COVID recoverers have long-haul symptoms.
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And it involves, you know, brain inflammation and organ inflammation and stuff that sounds pretty bad.
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So what do we know about the long-haul risk of COVID versus the long-haul risk of the vaccination?
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What we know about the vaccination long-haul risk is nothing,
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except that the people involved with it think that the risk is low.
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And it would be why we'd love to have five or ten years of experience,
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You have the option of you have to make a decision.
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So the vaccination you don't know, maybe, maybe dangerous, maybe not,
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The long-haul COVID, we're pretty sure, or science is, pretty sure that that's real.
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The size of it is a little unknown, but, you know, less than half, more than 10% probably.
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How many of you would accept the first part of my statement that the short-term risk is now solved?
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How many people think just the short-term part, forget about the long-term, we're still, that's separate,
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but the short-term risk, would you say it's true beyond a doubt that the vaccination is better in the short-term
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Because it's really well studied at this point, and we have solid, solid data on this stuff.
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I mean, we would know if 275,000 people died from the vaccination, don't you think?
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How many people would have to die within a few weeks of the vaccination before it would be obvious to everybody?
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If even 50,000 people had died from the vaccination, that's making that up.
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But even if 50,000 people had died within a week of the vaccination,
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you still know it would be way safer than the virus, right?
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Now, of course, it would depend on age, and, you know, of course, you're factoring in that stuff in your head.
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But if you didn't know that, that even if 50,000 people had died from the vaccination,
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because the vaccinations haven't been out as long as the COVID has.
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you should know that people laugh at you when you do that.
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Because the Sweden example proves exactly nothing,
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because we don't know why Sweden did what they did.
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They did a lot more lockdowns and social distancing than, you know, we generally know.
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They've got a whole different social distancing standard.
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Basically, everything from Sweden is useless for understanding the rest of the world.
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But if you still think it is, you're a little bit behind.
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It might be someday, but we don't know why anything is different from anything else at this point.
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For example, we don't know why Africa is not doing poorly.
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We don't know why the spike went up and went down.
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So if you're saying, look at Sweden, you're just looking at one of the other things we don't know anything about.
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It's just one of the things we don't know why anything did what it did.
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Do you wonder why many nurses who work bedside are not getting the vaccine?
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It's because we, oh, I guess it's a nurse, have seen who this virus is affecting and who the vaccine is affecting.
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So here's a nurse, a person of science, who believes that anecdotal observations should override the data that we have on this.
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Everybody who has, thinks that anecdotal data should rule, that's not a good take.
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Somebody says, you took the vaccine, N-word, this person is calling me.
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A guy learns a phrase, cognitive dissonance, and all of a sudden he thinks he is smart.
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Now he feels he's attained that position he's always tried to achieve, being above everyone else.
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His arrogance goes so far to tell everyone he is also going to see the future.
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Where was the disagreement with me on fact or opinion?
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If you've ever studied narcissists, and the person writing this is obviously one, this is a case of projection.
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And when found wrong, getting angry at the messenger.
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These are two tells for narcissism in this tweet.
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You just keep saying they are safe and no reason not to take them.
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This is from Todd, my critic, saying to me, you just keep saying they are safe and no reason not to take them.
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I've said we don't know what the risk is, but you have to compare it to the other risks.
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Getting any kind of medical treatment is unsafe.
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So again, this is a hallucination of my opinion.
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I think you're the one suffering from cognitive dissonance as the narrative you favor is falling apart.
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Give me a fact I got wrong or an argument that doesn't make sense.
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Do you think the timing of these mandates on the Olympics...
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Says, I don't take medical advice outside of the medical field.
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But also, I'm objective enough to not take an experimental vaccine over a virus with a 98% survival rate.
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Who says he's objective enough to not take an experimental vaccine over a virus with a 98% survival rate.
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Pretty much, there's a very strong correlation that the people who disagree with me are unaware that the long term risks are pretty well established at this point.
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So this is a case of somebody who thinks I have a bad take who has never heard of long haul risk.
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If you've never heard of long haul risk, you shouldn't be disagreeing with anybody.
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And how about the virus with a 98% survivability rate?
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Remember, all these critics, and nobody's come up with anything except a lack of understanding that there's long haul risks.
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Here is Patrick says, I have this suspicion that suggesting that the vaccines do more good than harm will prove to be misguided.
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Or Stephen Pollay says, it's been a great few years following you, and I really appreciate all I've gained, but it's at this juncture in history where we must part ways.
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So I claim to have no bad takes because my takes are all over the map.
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I would call the vaccination something that is extensively tested for the short run and something for which the experts think the long run should not be a big risk, but we don't know.
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Extensively tested for the short run, not tested for the long run, but the people who know the most about this field are not too concerned about the long run.
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There's a lot of people who said to me, Dr. Robert Malone's talk about how the vaccinations could be making things worse.
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So he has a take that is worthy of research, and I agree with him.
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I agree with his take that there's just enough of a hint that there might be a big problem, like a really big problem, that you should do the blood testing and find out.
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Now, if we got new information, would I change my – oh, so you're using – somebody's using the experimental word in some technical use.
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So it doesn't have any meaning for an argument.
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I stopped listening to your propaganda on vaccines and skip over it.
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So the people who think that I'm pushing the vaccines are having a certain reaction.
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And the reaction is that they can't figure out what's wrong with my opinion.
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They just know that they don't like it, and it would make them feel dumb for disagreeing.
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I think that people who can't reconcile that my opinion disagrees with theirs – by the way, this is the only topic today.
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So for those of you who say, I hate this vaccination topic, I'm not really talking about the vaccination so much as the logic of it.
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And I remind you again, I don't care if you take a vaccination.
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And I don't care if you spread it to other people.
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As long as everybody has the access to the vaccination, we're done.
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Now, the hospitals are going to get crushed, you know, more so than they would.
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You strongly implied the unvaccinated are dumb.
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I don't know if I applied that, but I'm sure it's true.
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If you were to do IQ tests of the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, what would you find?
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And by the way, that doesn't mean that the people with high IQs are right.
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I'm not making the claim that people with high IQs are right.
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Do you think it's the high IQ people getting vaccinated or the low IQ people?
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Somebody says I've implied that the smart people are getting vaccinated.
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Let me tell you something that I feel I can say with some confidence.
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But I would bet 100% of all the wealth I've acquired in my life, I'd bet all of it, that if you did a study, the high IQ people would be the ones getting more vaccinated.
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I don't think there's any doubt about it, is there?
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Now, of course, there are exceptions, blah, blah, blah.
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And he'll probably, well, I don't want to talk about individuals.
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Now, I'm not saying that there aren't lots of exceptions.
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Yeah, now, keep in mind that if you're arguing exceptions, you're not making an argument.
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I mean, that's the standard that you should probably take.
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That if you're arguing from anecdote, I knew this one guy, or I saw this one person had this experience.
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My doctor's not vaccinated, but I agree with you.
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I'm not saying that the high IQ people get the right answer all the time.
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And I'm not saying that the high IQ people have this answer right.
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But I'm just making an observation that the smart people are the ones getting vaccinated.
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And I think that you can say that with high certainty.
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They could be the most hypnotized of the group, easily.
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So somebody said they didn't know that the vaccination reduced symptoms.
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How could you not know that the vaccination reduces symptoms?
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Isn't earned income the best circuit for intelligence?
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I don't know if it's the best, but it correlates.
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I've now given you three bad takes that did not represent you.
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Here's somebody who has given me three bad takes.
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I wasn't suggesting you thought they were all real, the VAERS.
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My point was you thought that the actual number was less than the VAERS number.
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In reality, whatever percent of reports are real, they're only a fraction of actual.
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Well, what I've said is that they're highly inaccurate and that they're not meant as data.
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They're meant as warnings, which means that they could be much higher or they could be much lower,
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but it wouldn't be so much higher that it would change my opinion.
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I would say this is a minor point that doesn't really change the conclusion,
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I would say, yes, the odds of the VAERS thing being bigger than what is reported is a certain possibility.
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The odds of it being lower than what is reported is also a possibility.
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So, my take on VAERS is that if the VAERS number was actually anywhere near as big,
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or let's say if the number of people who had been injured by the vaccination
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was anywhere near as big as the number had been saved,
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So, yes, I said that the VAERS database is wildly inaccurate,
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and, heck, big criticism is that I only thought it might be inaccurate in one direction,
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But it wildly inaccurate does, of course, include it could be bigger or smaller.
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But being bigger wouldn't change anything about the analysis.
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Somebody saying that the fact that with 175-plus million adults vaccinated,
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it's a failure of the FDA to not issue a full approval already.
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I think the FDA probably needs to wait a while, right?
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If their standard is they wait a while to see if any problems come up,
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And what you do in an emergency is different than what the FDA would do in normal days?
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that it's approved before they wait a little while.
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You know, there's some trolls that are worse than others.
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but it was stuff like, you know, your flight might be 10 minutes late.
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And Jerry would be, all right, 10 minutes late.
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I'm not doing anything different than I always do.
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Can you imagine what a mental breakdown would actually look like?
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Somebody here thinks I'm having a mental breakdown.
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You know, your IQ correlation might have ended my marriage.
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Tell your spouse that it doesn't apply to individuals.
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And there's no reason to believe that high IQ is correlated with the right answer in this case.
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Who the fuck thinks I trust China's COVID data?
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Come up with a criticism about something I've actually said or done.
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If there were smart comments, I would tell you.
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For example, the person who said you should have mentioned that the VARS database
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could have been wrong on the high side as well as the low side.
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It doesn't change the argument, but it's worthy of correction.
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So a lot of people told me I'm a shill for the pharmacies or for the vaccination people.
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Is there anybody here who thinks I'm getting paid by anybody?
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Or even have been approached by anybody to influence?
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And by the way, that would end my career if I told you I hadn't been
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My career should be totally over if I said in public, as clearly as I'm saying now,
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Except in index funds, I don't have stock in any pharmaceuticals.
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I mean, it would be a dumb risk for me to shill for vaccinations.
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My guess on the COVID deaths is that it might be somewhere between 50% and 20% wrong.
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Because of the number of people who may have died coincidentally and had the virus at the same time.
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But nothing would change in your strategy if it's off by 50%.
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I'm just waiting for somebody to have an argument that's based on something I've actually said.
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Regarding risk management, what about the incentives?
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Farmers' incentives are for the virus to escape the vaccine.
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Scott, you underestimate the big pharma government corruption.
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Have I ever said that I trust big government and big pharma to make good decisions?
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I trust data, you know, because there are independent people looking at stuff.
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You know, we've clearly seen that the vaccines have worked so far.
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The spike protein in the vaccine traveling to the ovaries sounds like something we should look into.
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The problem is that this is about me being right, and so it's not interesting.
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Well, let me invite you not to watch if this content is not to your liking.
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I am genuinely curious, because I do this in public, I'm genuinely curious if there's somebody out there who has a good argument.
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Because all the people who say, Scott, I had to stop listening because you have a bad take on vaccines,
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If it's affecting, it's probably affected my audience by a third.
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If a third of my audience leaves for a specific reason and they don't say the reason, it's worth finding out.
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Let's see, you can repeat yourself until you're blue in the face, and the idiots still won't get it.
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All right, it's cognitive dissonance, Scott, yeah.
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Your actions say it all, you jabbed yourself, right.
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We're sick and tired of listening to you rationalize your decisions to get the vaccine.
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If you fully trusted it, you wouldn't talk about it incessantly.
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I don't trust the vaccination fully, and that what I talk about is the risk and the psychology of it.
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I would, of course, talk about it incessantly, whether I trust it or not, because that's my main topic, is the psychology of things.
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Do guys with trophy wives tend to get vaccinated?
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If there were any kind of news today, I'd be talking about it.
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We're still talking about whether somebody in the Olympics can quit because they have a mental condition.
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A scale of one to mind, how much weigh the fact that vaccine critics are censored?
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Oh, the critics who are censored are usually the ones who are pushing incorrect information.
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But, as some of you know, Dave Rubin got, at least temporarily, limited on Twitter for saying something that the scientists were saying.
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Basically, exactly the same thing science said.
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But the way he wrote it looked a little anti-vax-y just by its tone, and it got taken off.
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But then Twitter said it was a mistake and put it back.
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So, can you give me an example of somebody who's saying something that we should hear who's being censored?
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It's because the problem with him is that what he's saying is we should look into something, and it's being interpreted as we have looked into it, and we know it's a problem.
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So, the problem with Malone is that he's being misinterpreted.
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If Trump wasn't president, do you think it would be so political to get the vaccinations?
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You know, I think you could make a good argument that because Trump was there at the beginning, it just became political.
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But it doesn't make sense how political it became.
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Because it's the Trump supporters who are the least likely to get the Trump shot.
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You know, the very thing that Trump will claim as one of his greatest accomplishments, and there's a good chance it will be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president to get the vaccines out, if it all works.
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Somebody says, wrong, it's blacks, not Trump supporters.
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Trump supporters are a little higher on the list of unvaccinated than the black adult public.
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Yes, after Trump left office, he did go radio silent on vaccines.
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I mean, he still says consider them, but he's not pushing them because of freedom.
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Were you or your mom influenced by Napoleon Hill?
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What are your thoughts on mandatory vaccinations?
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I oppose mandatory vaccinations because the people who got vaccinated don't have a pandemic anymore.
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Because data is often wrong, and common sense is almost always wrong.
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Conservatives, by nature, are more skeptical things.
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Why does somebody keep asking me why I trust China's COVID data?
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Whoever thinks I trust China's data on anything, just stop hallucinating.
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I'm the number one China fuck you person on the planet.
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So, have we seen any, even one criticism of my vaccination hypothesis or opinion that's backed by a fact?
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No, they're having flare-ups, but they don't have much of a problem.
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I didn't hallucinate when you used the China-speak incorrect data.
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Like, your comments don't even make any fucking sense.
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You know, for certain arguments, or Scott, it's like wrestling with a pig.
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I mean, your criticisms are just, like, literally insane hallucinations.
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You can reword that a hundred times to make it look like I didn't say that.
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They have some flare-ups now that are a problem.
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I swear to God, I have to stay until I see at least one person who disagrees with me with an actual fact or an argument.
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So, here's my hypothesis that I'm chasing down.
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And I had to see if there were any real arguments that I missed.
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I think there are a number of people, mostly conservatives, who are at least interacting with me, who have a, let's say, an irrational, meaning that we don't have any data.
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So, whatever decision you make about the vaccination, you could argue it's irrational no matter which way you go, because we don't have enough data.
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But I believe that people disagreed with my take on vaccinations.
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And so, they turned that, the disagreement against me.
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So, I believe that when you disagree with somebody and they don't know why, they can't figure out what's wrong with your opinion, but they don't want to change their opinion, that it pretty much makes them think you had an opinion you didn't have.
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So, I think that cognitive dissonance is causing people to hallucinate, literally, that I had a whole bunch of opinions that I've never had.
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And in fact, I've had the opposite of those opinions in most cases.
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But it's because you can't change your opinion based on data or argument, which is everybody, really.
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People don't really change their opinion based on data and argument.
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And when you hit that argument and better argument, and you don't want to change anyway, then you have to assume that the person saying it is broken.
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Usually, the people who claim sophistry are the ones who don't understand what I'm saying.
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Do you think the vaccine nanobots are making me say this?
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Yeah, sophistry is just an attack on the speaker.
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How did the bad takes on YouTube compare it to locals?
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Well, the commenters on YouTube tend to be more jerks.
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The comments on locals are people who tend to be more respectful, but will disagree.
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So, generally, there's a big difference in just respectful behavior.
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Locals is more respectful because people pay to be there.
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Scott, I think you tend to underestimate vax risk for young people.
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What makes you think that I have underestimated the risk of vaccines for young people?
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And I think your point is that if somebody has a very low risk of COVID and a non-zero risk from the vaccination,
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that maybe there are some situations where the balance of risk and reward is different.
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Every person has their own individual risk and they have to take that into account.
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Can anything persuade you to go all in on promoting therapeutics?
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See, the trouble is that the therapeutics don't have data supporting them that the medical community agrees with.
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Now, if you think that I can look at an argument between Brett Weinstein and the scientific community
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and do my own research and come to a decision about which one of them is right,
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Do you think I could keep up with Brett Weinstein on an analysis of a study?
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Do you think I could keep up with a scientist who might or might not agree with Brett Weinstein?
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I just know that there are two entities telling me something and no way to know what's right.
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So no, nothing could convince me to go all in unless science backed it.
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So I like therapeutics, of course, but I also see the vaccine as a therapeutic.
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I don't think you'll see me go all in on any medical stuff because that would be unethical.
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Vaccine hesitancy is pushed back to government overreach.
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I think you could certainly have a government overreach opinion that's completely different
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Some people think the trolls on here could be Chinese trolls.
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All right, so one of the comments was science hasn't solved the common cold.
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So, yeah, we haven't cured the common cold, but we might have gotten a lot closer just
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by having an emergency use of the mRNA platform.
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All right, I need to ask particular people questions, but I'm asking for any kind of sense
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Scott, my only criticism, you forgot to count the deaths as long-term side effects.
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I don't know how that matters to any of my arguments.
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I'm pretty sure we all know that death has a long-term consequence.
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So you'd have to say more about that, because I don't understand how that has anything to do with anything I've said.
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There won't be any different topic today, because there's no news today.
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If you injected, yeah, people with a placebo, a lot of people would die.
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Recommending vaccines for those with natural immunity is a crock.
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I can't remember the last time I read a novel, honestly.
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So if it's fiction, there's no real chance that's going to happen.
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Why did it only take six months to find a vaccine for COVID,
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You know, I think HIV is one of the things that's on the list for mRNA.
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So I think it has more to do with mRNA technology reaching its maturity
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So had it reached its maturity during the AIDS, you know,
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then I think it probably would have been first.
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What's your opinion on banning unvaccinated people from public spaces?
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You know, if you want to be unvaccinated, that's fine.
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I mean, in a sense, I suppose I do have a greater risk, too,
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But I'd get, you know, I'd get a sniffle for a week,
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and then I'd be happy that I had natural immunity
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I don't care what anybody does in the public space.
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Scott, why is there no Chinese variant of the virus?
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How do you feel knowing they lied about the vaccine?
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You see, that's the kind of comments that are useless.
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How do you feel about knowing they lied about the vaccine?
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Between the three vaccines, which do you trust the most?
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It seems like we've heard the least problem stuff from the Moderna,
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Oh, they lied, saying that if you get the vaccination,
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So I don't think that the mask thing is based on science.
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It's a way to guilt the unvaccinated into getting vaccinated.
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In other words, the things which they say about it are true enough,
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Yeah, I don't think we would have had a golden age without a pandemic
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because it shook everything up in a way that needed to be.
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So, Roger, I'm going to block you from the channel
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because this is the most annoying comment I get,
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is people telling me that I've changed my stance
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So, and I guess that's the biggest problem I have,
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You can say anything you want about me if it's just, like, insults.
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You can call me, you know, short, bald, old, anything you want.
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The blocking is when somebody say in public what my opinion is
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and it's not right, and then they criticize it.
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Well, every source I've seen says exactly the opposite of that.
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In Israel, most of the hospitalized should be vaccinated.
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The only people who can go to the hospital in Israel
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are people vaccinated, because they all got vaccinated.
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So if you have a country where 100% of the people have vaccinations,
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the only people who will die from it are vaccinated people.
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But if the percent of vaccinated is not the percent of infected,
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Yeah, Australia is getting pretty badass about this.
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You know, the one thing about having lots of countries
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What happens if Australia ends up getting the best result?
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I think in this country, we'd still rather take the deaths
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That makes sense, because most people are vaxxed.
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100% of the people who die have polio vaccinations.
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It doesn't mean the polio vaccination killed them.
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But the part we don't know, and I don't know, I guess,
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Because a senior only has maybe a few good years of life.
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A child has, you know, the whole life ahead of them.
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I mean, that won't protect all of them, but it gets there.
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of a way something was measured might be right.
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But climate change is a vast body of science right now.
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And I don't think there are any vast bodies of science.
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Where you wouldn't find somebody who can find some problems
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So, Tony Heller can find a dozen different problems
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and doesn't really have much to do with whether climate change
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So, my prediction about evolution back in the 90s,
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I predicted that evolution would be debunked by science,
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but that it would be debunked by science in my lifetime.
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Because the simulation argument debunks evolution.
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but there's about a trillion to one chance it's true.
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You know, statistically, evolution has been debunked
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that people with vaccinations are getting less symptoms.
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Evolution could be a feature of the simulation?
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It's hard to see all these comments going by so quickly.