Episode 2252 Scott Adams: Biden Decides To Do Whatever Trump Would Have Done. And More Craziness
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about a bunch of stuff, including: - Why is there a difference between being a vegetarian and being a carnivore? - Why do some people like meat and others don't like meat? - Is it genetic? - How much of our mental illness is genetic? - Is there a link between eating meat and getting sick? - What is the difference between mental illness and being gay?
Transcript
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All right, here's some stuff, let's see, some science-y stuff that you didn't need to do the science.
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Do we need to do a study, or could we just ask Scott and see what he says?
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Apparently, being a vegetarian is partly genetic, meaning that there are some people who don't metabolize fat the same,
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and therefore meat doesn't give them the buzz that it gives other people and makes them sick.
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I do eat fish these days, but I stopped eating meat because I got a stomach ache every time I did it,
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So I might be one of these people, but you didn't really have to ask me if being a vegetarian is genetic.
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Did anybody think that being a vegetarian was simply a lifestyle preference?
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Oh, about 20 years before science knew it, because it was obvious.
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Do you know when I knew that being a vegetarian, not for everybody.
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Some people do pick it for lifestyle choices, I'm sure.
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But did I know that some people were naturally vegetarians?
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How about that gay people have a different genetic makeup?
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No, because that was obvious for decades before science figured it out.
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So if you want to wait for science, you can, but it'll be decades after I tell you what's true.
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Now, what about alcohol is actually good for you if taken in moderation?
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Well, science lied to you about that for about 50 years.
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But if you listen to me from the very start, I said, nope, that's just bullshit science.
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But there's a study by, let's see, the lead author is Professor McGrath.
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He says that half of the population will develop at least one disorder, mental disorder, by the age of 75.
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So in other words, half of Americans will have mental health disorders in their lifetime.
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We now have this enormous industry that will give you a pill or give you therapy
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or make you watch some TikTok videos or something else.
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So once we monetized mental health disorders, were you going to get more of them or fewer of them?
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Everything you form a group to look for, you're going to find more.
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When the ADL was formed to look for bigotry, do you think they found any?
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But do you think they found any that wasn't really there?
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So you're going to find everything that's there and a lot of stuff that isn't there if you're looking.
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But on top of that, I do think our entire system makes people mentally ill.
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There's definitely a difference in mental illness compared to when I was a kid.
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If nobody told you you were mentally ill, would you know it?
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What if we had just as much mental illness before but there were no names for it
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and we were not all familiar with all the various types?
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Scott, make a list of all the potential types of mental illness,
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Do you think I could have done that when I was, I don't know, 15?
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No, I would have thought, let's see, I've heard of schizophrenia and maybe fear of crowds or something.
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And I wouldn't have been able to even, I wouldn't have even been able to come up with three, I don't think.
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Depressed, I don't even know if depression was a thing when I was a kid.
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I don't remember anybody who said they had it or anxiety, any of it.
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So what if everybody had those problems, but if they didn't have a name for it,
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they just thought it was shit that happens in their head
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and maybe other people have shit in their heads and we're all just different.
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And I also wonder, if half of the country has a mental illness, or disorder as they call it,
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If half the kids have a mental illness, at some point, it just becomes who we are.
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I mean, aren't we all a little bit crazy one way or another?
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Anyway, I got questions about these numbers, but it does seem like there are more mentally unhealthy people
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So how many of you have seen the clip of Bill Maher?
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He went on a few different talk shows, and he talked about how the Democrats are poorly served
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by their own news, which is interesting to hear a Democrat or somebody who leans Democrats say that,
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The example he gives is that when people were polled,
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what are the odds that you would end up in the hospital if you got COVID?
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And apparently, people on the left, political left, thought it was a really big number,
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Now, that was a really good example of where their news has completely bamboozled them,
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How about if you were to ask, I'm just guessing,
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but if you were to ask Democrats and Republicans
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if the number of deaths from extreme weather have gone up or down recently?
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I feel like, I don't know this, but I feel like Democrats would say,
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oh, yeah, that extreme weather from all the climate change,
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so there's more extreme weather because there's more climate change.
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Yes, there must be a great increase in the number of deaths.
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fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, you know, just go down the list,
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how many Democrats would recognize those as hoaxes?
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They wouldn't because the news told them they were all real.
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They wouldn't know the most important elements of climate change,
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They wouldn't know about hospitalization for COVID,
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the biggest thing that happened in the country for years.
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People were asked how many people were killed by police who were black in 2021.
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40% of liberals thought the number was over 1,000 in America per year.
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40% of liberals, people who were very liberal, thought it was over 1,000.
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Meaning that if you knew the details, you would have said to yourself,
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You'd look at it and say, yeah, they definitely should have been shot.
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So the number who were shot who should not have been shot,
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maybe two out of thousands and thousands and thousands of arrests.
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Only 16% of conservatives thought it was over 1,000, which is way too much.
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What conservative thinks that the number of black people killed by police per year is over 1,000?
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Now, if you asked what is their primary news source, what do you think they'd say?
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There must be a lot of households where you've got a conservative and a liberal in the same house,
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So there might be a whole bunch of conservatives
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So I would like to see a more comprehensive survey
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You know, other questions you could imagine would be
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You know, conservatives would know that Generation 3,
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Those are the new ones that you would build today.
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4 would be built in a way that it couldn't melt down
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who said that a college degree is very important
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Who would want to send their kid to a woke college?
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It's actually closer to the way it's always been.
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We've always learned that scientists can't do statistics.
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I mean, the fact that two highly qualified statisticians,
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at least our climate change science is good, right?
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there's like a slight bit of erosion from rocks.