Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 997 Scott Adams： There Will be Cursing Tonight. Lots of Cursing. Hide the Children.

00:00:00.000 so there's a little question that people have challenged me with and it goes like

00:00:13.380 this Scott they say you said recently that tutorial videos should not have an

00:00:21.480 introduction you should just get right into the lesson and then you do these

00:00:26.240 periscopes and you have this blah blah blah simultaneous sip introduction stuff

00:00:32.060 like I'm doing right now feels like some kind of a hypocrite or something but let

00:00:40.280 me tell you why I do it on these live streams I do it on the live streams so

00:00:44.780 you have time to get in here that's why but as a secondary effect which is this

00:00:51.080 is a persuasion tip those of you got in here early you're going to get the

00:00:55.280 persuasion tip this is a really really really strong persuasion tip if you were

00:01:03.400 to rank all of the tips for persuasion this would be in the top five right up

00:01:09.740 there with scaring people and using visual persuasion simplicity etc so it's one of

00:01:15.200 your top persuasion tips and it goes like this if you can get somebody to do

00:01:21.520 anything anything anything you can get them to do more more likely it's a

00:01:28.120 statistical thing so if you can get somebody to do you a small favor it primes

00:01:34.420 them to do larger favors this is proven by studies by the way if you read the book

00:01:39.940 influence by Cialdini he talks about this so a salesperson for example would try to get

00:01:49.140 you to do something small because if they can get you to do something they can

00:01:54.300 build on that to get you to do a little bit more you become comfortable with the

00:01:58.440 idea that somebody is giving you ideas and you're acting upon them so when I do

00:02:03.540 the simultaneous sip people enjoy it in fact I didn't I didn't invent it and then

00:02:10.380 spring it on people I just sort of did it one day and people said they liked it so I

00:02:15.600 did more of it so basically I was just responding to the public but the reason

00:02:21.820 I responded is that I recognized that it would be the strongest form of bonding

00:02:27.340 relationship just like singing just like exercising together just like going

00:02:32.700 through an experience together if I can get any percentage of you to do the

00:02:37.980 simultaneous sip in the morning we bond is there anything wrong with that no

00:02:44.540 because you know exactly what I'm doing it's very transparent I'm telling

00:02:48.380 you I do it because people like it and it helps you bond nothing wrong with that

00:02:54.440 right the world is persuasion it's not all bad persuasion it's not all

00:02:59.360 manipulation sometimes it's just engineering wouldn't you like your

00:03:04.760 content to be more interesting of course you would so would I I would like your

00:03:09.680 content to be more interesting too so I use techniques which are fully

00:03:14.800 transparent to make it so so that's what that's all about in the news today Joe

00:03:21.980 Biden went to a cemetery no no no no no he's still alive he visited a cemetery he

00:03:32.060 visited we think he visited he was wearing a mask and dark aviator glasses so I'm not

00:03:42.200 going to say it was a hundred percent Joe Biden but the parts that we could see

00:03:48.040 which was really just this little narrow forehead part it looked a lot like his

00:03:53.220 forehead I gotta say I mean you could sort of fake the hair and the glasses and the

00:03:59.060 mask but that little strip on his forehead I think that was him I would I would

00:04:04.160 recognize that anywhere so he got out of the basement I think for Christmas

00:04:10.020 instead of elf on a shelf have you heard of that I don't know exactly what that's

00:04:15.600 all about I think there was a children's book called elf on a shelf so every

00:04:20.940 Christmas people put a little a little elf on the shelf I don't know why you do

00:04:26.260 it but I think this Christmas we should have basement Bidens Biden in the

00:04:31.600 basement I think I might repurpose one of my Dilbert dolls to make it a little

00:04:36.940 Joe Biden doll I'll just put a little face on it and I'm gonna make that my

00:04:41.640 basement Biden and I'm just gonna put that in my basement as a sort of a holiday

00:04:46.640 tradition interestingly Joe Biden visited the cemetery today but I did not see

00:04:56.640 footage of him leaving so I mean I'm not trying to start any rumors I'm just

00:05:04.120 stating a fact I saw a video of him arriving didn't see any video of him

00:05:11.360 leaving not that that means anything I'm just telling you the facts so CNN found a

00:05:20.740 way to be more ridiculous today you didn't think it was possible did you come 0.99

00:05:25.860 on be honest did you think it was possible for CNN to be more ridiculous you 0.99

00:05:32.460 didn't you didn't think that but here it is I swear I'm not making this up this is an 0.98

00:05:40.020 actual fucking tweet from CNN oh that was just a warm-up there will be more 0.98

00:05:47.900 cursing later stick around for that here's the actual tweet from CNN and I 0.99

00:05:55.300 swear it looks like it's just a joke or something so it says that the novel the

00:06:02.020 novel coronavirus seems to be more deadly for men and I'm thinking to myself well

00:06:07.020 that that's unusual is CNN highlighting dangers to men now cuz that's unusual but

00:06:17.480 read on that's just the first sentence the novel coronavirus seems to be more

00:06:22.120 deadly for men but in many other ways women are bearing the brunt of this

00:06:27.460 pandemic what what for instance it goes on for instance the majority of health 1.00

00:06:37.340 workers are women you have to get paid I didn't read the whole fucking tweet I 1.00

00:06:43.920 didn't read the whole fucking tweet before I decided to do this because the 0.99

00:06:48.700 part I read was so stupid I thought I got to read this in public only right now I 0.99

00:06:53.920 swear is the first time I've read the rest of the tweet I didn't know it was 0.99

00:06:58.240 this funny yet they get paid 20% less than average than men according to the

00:07:04.120 wait for it wait for it I want to read the beginning of the sentence again so that

00:07:12.340 we can have the timing right when I do the reveal for the end of the sentence the

00:07:18.700 end of the sentence is going to be an expert entity or organization possibly

00:07:26.800 somebody who studied this carefully so this is going to be an authority at the

00:07:31.960 end of the sentence let me start from the beginning of the sentence so that we

00:07:35.740 have the full context here from CNN's tweet for instance the majority of health

00:07:41.380 workers are women yet they get paid 28% less on average than men according to the

00:07:47.540 world health organization I pause for your laughter first of all I don't want to get

00:07:58.640 into the whole men getting paid more than women stuff but can we accept that only the

00:08:05.460 poorly educated believe that's the thing am I right the people who are actually more

00:08:13.740 educated have looked into that question and they know that the the wage gap is explained by

00:08:20.280 experience and you know all the normal things it basically disappears when you start looking at it

00:08:26.860 now if you're poorly educated you don't know that do you and there might be a few of you

00:08:32.800 poorly educated people who have found your way onto this periscope by accident because

00:08:39.960 maybe you didn't know it was coming you just thought that it would be swearing and you thought well I'd

00:08:46.600 like to get in on on all this swearing but first of all is there any is there any

00:08:53.840 quote fact in the world that has been more thoroughly debunked than the 28% wage gap

00:09:02.280 difference between men and women it's probably the most debunked fact maybe in the whole world

00:09:09.860 I don't know how that's I don't know if anything's been more debunked than that

00:09:13.760 but how many people are coming over here to the to this periscope who are hearing that for the very

00:09:21.380 first time I'll bet a lot of you I'll bet a lot of you are saying what that's not true

00:09:29.420 everybody knows women are underpaid 28% or something like that compared to men that's just a fact 1.00

00:09:36.960 because of discrimination isn't it not so much it's a fact to the poorly educated segment of the

00:09:46.680 population and when I say poorly educated I don't mean that they didn't go to good schools I don't

00:09:52.820 mean that they didn't necessarily go to college or even good colleges what I mean is that they're

00:09:58.060 stuck in a news silo and if you were in a news silo on the left does that look like left to you okay

00:10:05.520 if you're in the news silo on the left you would be unaware that that is the most debunked statistic

00:10:13.140 in the history of statistics can you think of anything that's more debunked than that

00:10:18.480 is literally the most debunked fake news of all time I think I don't know anything that's been

00:10:25.920 more debunked than that but there are a few of you who just wandered down here and just thought to 0.98

00:10:30.800 themselves I'm not sure I believe this cartoonist idiot because what science is he looking at because 0.92

00:10:38.320 all the science all the science 100% of it agrees with what CNN says yeah well if you only watch CNN 0.99

00:10:47.840 and left-leaning news you would think that was true so I didn't even expect that that was at the

00:10:58.520 end of this tweet but I got there so the part I was going to make fun of is that CNN has found a way

00:11:03.940 to make the coronavirus sexist except in the wrong direction the coronavirus

00:11:09.920 let me uh pause for a moment I feel some swearing coming

00:11:17.860 because there are some things that just can't be expressed within it am I right there's some things

00:11:26.860 you just need some swearing here would be an example CNN saying that the coronavirus is worse for women 1.00

00:11:34.640 in many ways but did you know CNN that um it's fucking killing men it's fucking killing them 0.99

00:11:43.020 they're fucking dying dying dead fucking dead that's a little bit worse than having a job during the 0.99

00:11:52.960 coronavirus pandemic that you love and has meaning and is helping people yeah it's risky it's very risky 1.00

00:12:00.720 and believe me the entire civilization is in your debt if you're a health care worker be you male or

00:12:09.820 female or whatever you want to be I'm cool with everything whatever you want to be society owes you a

00:12:17.220 debt and we feel it we get it all right so not minimizing any of that and if women are the majority of that 0.99

00:12:25.300 yeah they're definitely taking on a big role and not minimizing that and we appreciate it immensely 0.99

00:12:31.200 but the coronavirus is fucking killing men it's fucking killing men by much larger numbers than women 0.99

00:12:42.800 it's not really a woman problem it's kind of a man problem because it's fucking killing men 1.00

00:12:49.440 as opposed to giving them a good paying job with great meaning that is good for society and we have great 0.99

00:12:57.380 appreciation for the people doing it 0.89

00:12:59.540 CNN could you become more ridiculous I don't think so so I put a question out this morning about

00:13:08.640 hydroxychloroquine and the question I asked was are there any countries that are using it 0.95

00:13:15.740 uh in a widespread manner giving it to people early at the first symptoms this is a key part

00:13:22.260 first symptoms and not getting a good result and so I put that on the internet people had some

00:13:28.940 suggestions but the the only one I heard that's a maybe but I think this one doesn't fit either so

00:13:36.180 do me a fact check on this will you India so my understanding that is that India is not doing well

00:13:44.160 in terms of deaths you know their death rates high but that they also are a major producer of

00:13:51.540 hydroxychloroquine and it is part of their regimen to give it to people early now I think these facts

00:13:59.700 are true they make a lot of it they have a lot of it and that at the moment they're recommending

00:14:05.540 that you give it to people early and I think it's also true that their death rate is relatively high

00:14:11.300 all those things true here's what I think might not be true I think they only just started the

00:14:18.160 hydroxychloroquine as a recommendation and I would I would I would imagine that I don't know what the

00:14:25.420 health care situation is in India but probably there's a big disparity so here's my question to you

00:14:33.120 you can tell me on Twitter because I probably won't see it in the comments is the India example a clean 0.98

00:14:40.020 example because I think maybe the timing isn't right you know maybe we wouldn't see it until later

00:14:46.600 or are they not giving the zinc or what percentage of people are getting it at all because just

00:14:53.080 because it's recommended and just because they have a lot of it doesn't mean that most people are

00:14:59.220 getting it right so that part I need a fact check on so if you have a different country in which you

00:15:06.120 can point to where this is the example we're looking for and let me be clear about this we're looking

00:15:12.600 for a country that has been widespread giving you know for a long time been giving hydroxychloroquine

00:15:20.120 early at first symptoms that's the important part and also have a bad result in other words their death

00:15:27.400 rate is high their their outcomes are bad so find that for me um find that for me now

00:15:37.880 something interesting is happening with the education field now y'all know everybody's y'all y'all know

00:15:46.920 uh why did I become did I just become southern like accidentally well y'all y'all know

00:15:54.360 that um that everybody's talking about education how it will change and it's too expensive and

00:16:04.520 there'll be more remote learning etc but here's the interesting thing i've been talking about a new

00:16:12.280 model for you know creating like a special major and having a more of a market situation where anybody can

00:16:19.640 add components to the class i've been talking about that idea for

00:16:27.320 four years i think in public a number of times i actually at one point i had investors who were going

00:16:33.800 to put a lot of money into it and i was going to be part of that and try to build it out

00:16:39.000 several years ago but i couldn't really get traction everybody who heard the idea would say yeah

00:16:46.040 that's a pretty good idea but it wasn't really connecting you know it wasn't like turning into

00:16:51.800 something that anybody want to act upon but now when i put that idea out there as i did in my recent

00:16:58.120 periscope there's a completely different um acceptance of it and i don't know if you've noticed that so it's an

00:17:06.760 idea that in its fullest form has existed for three or four years and i've been talking about it in public

00:17:13.080 it just doesn't get any purchase and then in the last few days boom lots of interest now i've told

00:17:22.040 you that the way you can identify a good idea from a bad idea is that good ideas and good content make

00:17:29.400 people act with their body not just say in their mind or in their voice you know say oh that's a good

00:17:35.640 idea that doesn't mean anything their thoughts are meaningless their words are usually meaningless

00:17:42.520 too because that's easy talking is easy but if somebody sits down to write a long email or message

00:17:49.880 to me that's quite a commitment and a number of people did that people who were course designers

00:17:56.520 people working in education people had some some other you know visibility on something a whole bunch

00:18:03.240 of people started writing me putting their body into it you know their their fingers and their minds

00:18:09.960 and sitting in a chair for uh 45 minutes because these are these were pretty detailed messages i was

00:18:15.320 getting long ones so something has changed now we've talked about you know coronavirus will change

00:18:22.040 everything blah blah blah but certainly it's changing how we think radically i would say that the way we're

00:18:29.720 thinking now just about everything you know the whole way civilization is organized we're thinking

00:18:35.960 about it completely differently now and that difference is what unlocks the golden age because

00:18:43.560 until we shook the box and i guess it was the coronavirus that shook the box for us until the box got shaken

00:18:51.480 all the things that were sort of ossified and they've been going like this forever it just

00:18:56.280 was too hard to change them all it seemed like just maybe too big a deal it's there's too much

00:19:03.720 tradition and inertia heading the right the same direction colleges colleges or colleges but man when

00:19:12.040 you shake the box and suddenly you can say all right start from scratch if i were going to design

00:19:17.960 education from scratch what would it look like and only now can that thought

00:19:26.520 get some traction the thought of just starting over and just say let's let's throw out all the

00:19:33.320 assumptions just start from scratch what would it look like if you built it today with the tools that

00:19:38.600 we have today instead of evolving it from when we didn't have the internet for example

00:19:43.560 so i feel like the zeitgeist the the mood is ready for some big big changes and i'm looking forward to that

00:19:54.600 here's a here's one of the coolest suggestions uh that i've gotten this is from benjamin cost

00:20:03.400 kust who makes this suggestion to me on the locals platform so if you don't know over at locals.com i have a

00:20:12.760 little uh space for subscribers in which they can send me messages more easily and i promise to read

00:20:19.400 them because they're paying money to send me messages and um there's extra content that you

00:20:24.920 won't see anyplace else so one of the ideas that benjamin has i just love i love the thinking about this

00:20:33.480 i don't know that it's practical you can decide for me right make up your own mind but just think

00:20:38.920 of the creativity of this and that that's the thing i'm seeing people thinking everything from the

00:20:44.840 ground up just look at the creativity of this um so instead of paying people for plasma which i think

00:20:53.960 you're going to see a lot of as as people have recovered are donating their blood plasma for the

00:20:59.880 antibodies for other people so we already know there are going to be all these plasma collection

00:21:06.120 centers i think that's guaranteed they'll be everywhere and here's the suggestion instead

00:21:11.240 of paying people for plasma why not exchange actual health screening and health care for the plasma

00:21:18.920 and uh benjamin was noting that he's he's donated plasma a number of times i think for money

00:21:25.720 and each time he donates it they screen his blood and he listed i won't list them because it's his

00:21:32.200 his medical situation but he listed a number of things that they found in his blood that were

00:21:37.800 markers for something that he could take care of you know oh you need a little more iron i i guess i

00:21:43.000 could mention that one that's not too dangerous need a little more iron well he didn't know that so

00:21:48.360 then he could go modify his diet or whatever get a little more iron and while while testing your blood

00:21:55.400 doesn't get you to something like health care they do it anyway so apparently they're testing your blood

00:22:02.440 routinely would it would it be that hard to say all right you don't have health care that you can afford

00:22:11.080 but if you donate plasma on a regular basis we can use it for a variety of things maybe we're testing your

00:22:17.480 dna maybe we're doing some studies we'll do whatever we want maybe there's some antibodies you know

00:22:23.800 something so you can use it for whatever you want in return you get free health care

00:22:31.480 and i thought to myself that idea i don't think it's fully workable but don't you love the the

00:22:39.320 creativity that's in that because it's an existing thing so you know it already works they already do

00:22:45.560 the blood screening and it's already given at least one person useful health advice could you expand on that

00:22:53.800 all right i'll just put that out there as the example of the kind of

00:22:58.200 amazingness that is ahead of us in the golden age i've told you before that whenever i have a new

00:23:04.840 idea not this one i'm changing topics now whenever i have a new idea i always get two responses and it

00:23:11.080 always makes me laugh if you're not a creative person by nature or by trade then you haven't seen this

00:23:19.320 as much as i have so you've watched me enough you know how many ideas i produce most of them are bad

00:23:26.840 but there's always two responses one of them is that will never work and here's all the reasons why

00:23:33.400 it can never work and almost every time the other response is somebody's already successfully doing it

00:23:40.600 if you haven't seen that cycle as many times as i have it completely changes your idea of what's

00:23:48.360 possible because literally everything that people say is impossible it's almost always being done

00:23:55.640 somebody's actually doing it so my ideas are not that original but i don't know it when i come up with

00:24:01.240 them i just say well it seems like this would be a good idea and you find out it's not original

00:24:06.120 somebody's already doing it here's the perfect example approximately i'm not good with time and

00:24:12.280 dates but i think about 20 years ago i tried to start a company with a a friend who was an engineer

00:24:20.440 and i had the idea and he was the engineer and we're going to build this thing the idea was

00:24:26.040 a special kind of universal remote control that if you as a homeowner have given permission to the

00:24:32.680 delivery company they could program you in and they would they would be able to open your garage door

00:24:39.240 just to deliver stuff to your home and then they could close your garage door now in my uh in my

00:24:46.280 assumption there would be video cameras so that you the homeowner would be able to see exactly what

00:24:52.280 happened you know they're not coming in your garage and stealing your lawn mower and leaving

00:24:56.600 because your video camera is on all the time as soon as the garage door opens so it was a

00:25:01.240 a system that would allow that now 20 years goes by and of course everybody i told that idea said it

00:25:10.280 won't work literally everybody i told that idea to said no scott privacy security privacy no way people

00:25:20.840 are going to let you open their garage door when they're not home i see people saying that ring does

00:25:28.040 that which is probably true but i just noticed that amazon does it it's a program called key so i have

00:25:36.680 a certain kind of garage door opener that allows me to control it by wi-fi or through the internet

00:25:43.240 specifically and my garage door opener i just noticed on the app says it works with amazon so i can actually

00:25:51.080 tie it to amazon and have amazon not with a special remote but presumably with an app open my garage door

00:26:00.040 so somebody says amazon bought ring oh did they did amazon buy ring well anyway my point is

00:26:09.000 it's another example of something that everybody told me couldn't possibly work

00:26:13.240 except it's already a product and the biggest company in the world is producing it

00:26:17.080 um here's another good thing coming robert scoble is writing about this on the internet wrote a blog

00:26:27.480 and he says that apple is working on lidar glasses lidar is like a different technology than radar

00:26:38.040 lidar uses light so it shoots lighted stuff i don't know if it produces a visible light probably not i think

00:26:45.720 it's probably non-visible light i don't know too much about it but it shoots light at things and then it

00:26:51.160 it measures the reflection or something and it can determine distance so the idea is that instead

00:26:58.040 of having your glasses understand everything about your environment the lidar would allow it to look for

00:27:07.480 qr codes and if your store had enough qr codes on your products on your shelf

00:27:13.160 you could walk into a store with your glasses on and at very low power requirements because it's not

00:27:20.200 doing much it's just doing lidar the lidar could reach out it could ping the qr codes and basically draw

00:27:28.360 a map of the of the room while you're walking through it and it could it could produce potentially it could

00:27:36.600 produce uh enhanced reality stuff so things would appear in your glasses to give you more information

00:27:42.680 about the product as you looked at it now in theory says uh robert scoble you could get to the point

00:27:51.320 where everything is touchless you could just walk into a store you could simply look at look at a

00:27:57.160 product its information would pop up and you can say some version of buy it for me and you wouldn't have

00:28:04.600 to take it off the shelf maybe you can see a video and you're in your glasses of it working you know

00:28:10.040 instead of picking up the box maybe you never have to touch it the the video plays in your glasses

00:28:16.840 you say buy it and you walk out that's it maybe it even gets shipped to your house perhaps you've never

00:28:22.360 touched it even once uh also i'm sure that point of sale buying you know will probably have something

00:28:29.240 to do with these glasses as well so contactless shopping seems like it's coming it's coming

00:28:35.960 um um here's something that i just realized today you know my book had failed almost everything and

00:28:45.960 still win big and i introduced the ideas of systems better than goals and talent stacks and managing

00:28:52.360 your energy and stuff like that i just realized that those ideas have now been in three different

00:28:58.520 best-selling books um one of them was mine but now two other books that are also bestsellers

00:29:07.720 are are talking about them prominently giving me credit which which is great of course but they give me

00:29:13.080 credit but it's now a three best-selling books and and it's fairly important parts of three best-selling books

00:29:20.360 and you know i've always i've always said that uh years ago when dilbert started working out

00:29:26.760 i always had this feeling that dilbert would not be how i was remembered i didn't know what i'd be remembered

00:29:33.640 for if anything but i didn't think it would be dilbert i feel like dilbert will end about the same time i stopped

00:29:40.040 drawing it um but the idea of of the talent stack and systems over goals and managing your energy not your time

00:29:50.680 appear to be really really sticky like really really sticky more than i had even hoped for so

00:30:04.200 the people that are mentioning um mentioned me specifically so atomic habits for example uh i learned

00:30:11.560 that i haven't read the book but i understand that he mentions systems better than goals and mentions me as

00:30:18.040 as as uh creator of that and also um tools for titans tim ferris's book which is a compilation of a lot of

00:30:26.840 other people's suggestions and ideas but uh i wonder how many other best-selling books that's going to be in

00:30:34.600 as as as just a reference all right uh i promised you some swearing this would be the place that that

00:30:45.320 happens uh but first has anyone identified the mass graves for all the people who died from their lupus and

00:30:56.120 malaria medications because they must exist right because we've been told the hydroxychloroquine

00:31:05.160 uh especially if it's used recklessly and not under doctor's orders can have deadly deadly

00:31:13.400 consequences and side effects and given the millions and millions and millions and millions of people who

00:31:18.920 have been using it for lupus and malaria and still do i would assume there are mass graves are they 1.00

00:31:26.440 hiding them where are they hiding those mass graves oh that's right it's all fucking bullshit there 0.99

00:31:34.600 are no mass graves no that's only something that the poorly educated believe in speaking of the 1.00

00:31:43.160 poorly educated i got a tweet today a few tweets from a gentleman named david newert n-e-i-w-e-r-t

00:31:54.680 david newert he lists himself as the following he's an author of a book called alt america the rise of the

00:32:02.200 radical right in the age of trump uh he's also a staff writer had been or is for the daily costs

00:32:10.280 and a contributor to the spLC center yes the southern poverty law center so that's that's who he is

00:32:20.360 he's written books about the alt-right being bad and he works for daily costs and the spLC

00:32:29.880 so he tweeted uh at me uh so apparently he singled me out for this tweet and he tweets at me the story of

00:32:38.200 the president uh i don't know golfing and there was something about um him taking hydroxychloroquine

00:32:46.280 and this fine gentleman david newert tweets this at me he says hoping that all the trump fans gorging

00:32:55.320 themselves on this stuff meaning hydroxychloroquine feel better now that they know they've been conned by

00:33:01.400 the con artist meaning trump but they'll keep on rationalizing it hysterically like at scott adams

00:33:08.520 says now i ask you this have you most of you have been watching me for a while and i've talked a lot

00:33:17.160 about hydroxychloroquine would you say that this is an accurate statement of what i've been doing

00:33:23.880 rationalizing it hysterically does that sound like an accurate description of what i've been doing

00:33:31.080 because what i've been doing is telling you that there's no book no more than a 30 40 chance that

00:33:36.440 it works at all i've been telling you that there are zero reliable studies is that does that sound like

00:33:45.080 hysterically rationalizing it when i say often and clearly there are no credible studies to support that

00:33:55.320 it works and indeed if i had to bet i would bet against it does that sound irrational now because

00:34:05.480 i understand the concept of risk management no no i'm not a doctor is that what you heard did you hear

00:34:13.000 me say that i was a medical professional let me say it again i understand risk management if that came

00:34:21.400 into your head as he thinks he's a scientist maybe there's something wrong with your head if that came

00:34:27.240 into your head as oh he's a doctor now cartoonist thinks he's a doctor well maybe the problem happens

00:34:34.360 somewhere in the skull area of your brain because it's not anything i ever said i've said if you're

00:34:43.080 working with your doctor and you think maybe hydroxychloroquine works we don't know there's some anecdotal

00:34:50.040 evidence you think there might be a 10 chance that makes the difference but the odds of it killing you

00:34:55.880 are very very very very very low maybe you plus your doctor and your specific situation might say that the

00:35:03.960 risk management decision could go the way that the doctor and his uh the way the president and his

00:35:11.560 physician went they could be right they could be wrong yeah and of course there's the question of whether

00:35:18.360 the zinc is it is part of the question or not uh so so there's somebody who thinks that i specifically

00:35:29.720 have been rationalizing hysterically here's how i interpret that apparently i'm saying things that

00:35:36.280 don't agree with him that he doesn't like it he doesn't know what to do about it and so i i

00:35:42.840 sort of accused him of being in the uh in the poorly educated segment of the population he didn't

00:35:52.680 like that he didn't like being called poorly educated because i tried to try to help him a little bit

00:35:59.240 um and he suggested that maybe i should look to the world health organization because it has quote

00:36:08.200 more credibility than your sources meaning you're being me so this is somebody who's who's smart

00:36:16.840 enough to write a book i mean you have to be pretty smart to write a book that gets published right

00:36:25.720 but he's clearly in the poorly educated uh segment because his news has failed him and he actually thought

00:36:32.440 that that that sending this tweet in public would not embarrass him think about this what kind of 0.97

00:36:42.760 fucking news is he watching that he thinks this tweet would not embarrass him he says the the world health 0.98

00:36:50.040 organization has more credibility than my sources no the world health organization does not have more 0.99

00:36:59.720 credibility than my sources and my sources are fucking nothing nothing and the world health organization has 0.97

00:37:09.320 less credibility than my sources which are fucking nothing nothing 0.99

00:37:17.080 was i not the first public figure who who probably that you heard saying that we should get close travel 0.82

00:37:24.840 with china way before the world health organization did who was right who was right who was right

00:37:30.360 who was right me me when the world health organization and the surgeon general and every expert on earth told

00:37:38.280 you that masks were bad for you who was probably the first public figure who said um i would like to 1.00

00:37:46.840 say that every health official in the world is full of fucking shit because that's the dumbest 1.00

00:37:52.360 most fucking thing i ever heard obviously masks work you don't have to be a fucking expert to know that it stops the droplets 1.00

00:37:59.880 it obviously fucking works who was right was it the cartoonist or was it the world health organization 0.99

00:38:11.720 it was the cartoonist it was the cartoonist does that make me a medical expert 0.98

00:38:17.640 no it makes me knowing absolutely nothing about medical stuff and still far superior to the world health

00:38:28.680 organization on this topic there's no questioning that these are public facts they are public facts

00:38:38.520 was i the person who said that maybe the coronavirus does not spread from person to person

00:38:43.560 as wuhan was being closed down that's right as wuhan was being closed down the world health organization

00:38:54.120 was saying maybe it doesn't spread from person to person i didn't say that so i think i'm ahead of them on that

00:39:03.160 so i don't know how you could come up to the how could you say in in public that the world health organization

00:39:13.560 has more credibility than my sources which are zero because all the evidence suggests the opposite

00:39:19.560 unless you're in the poorly educated group that doesn't watch all the news 1.00

00:39:23.320 um so i responded uh with this tweet no you dumb fuck i don't get my medical advice from politicians 0.99

00:39:34.360 i also don't trust the world health organization which as i pointed out has no credibility i do look at 0.99

00:39:40.360 doctors and my view is consistent with them it is your views are not on a risk management level

00:39:48.520 so here is a guy who doesn't even know that his opinions on this stuff are not compatible with

00:39:55.800 doctors he doesn't know that this is like the most the most talked about topic in the news for three

00:40:04.840 months and he's so uninformed he thinks that he should say these things to me in public and that they

00:40:10.920 would make sense um i just tweeted just before i got on here an article that you really have to read

00:40:20.840 now i don't like to recommend so strongly that you read long form articles unless they're really good

00:40:29.160 okay so trust me on this there was a whole bunch of uh very credentialed doctors and scientists in brazil

00:40:38.280 who wrote a long uh sort of a open letter if you will in which they asked this question who gets to

00:40:46.520 speak for science it's a really good question right because all of these experts are saying well

00:40:56.120 we're all experts we're all medical doctors we're all scientists and we collectively the people

00:41:01.880 who signed this letter think that the hydroxychloroquine if it's given the right way

00:41:08.280 not the wrong way which is the way it's been studied where they overdose the patients with deadly

00:41:13.240 amounts when they're near death anyway not that way how about scott is not a doctor but even i would

00:41:23.000 have not given incredibly high doses of a drug that hadn't been tested to people near death and expect that

00:41:31.640 it's not going to have some bad outcomes even i wouldn't do that i'm not a doctor so this large

00:41:39.000 list of doctors in brazil are saying stop saying that science says hydroxychloroquine is a bad idea

00:41:46.520 stop saying it because we are science and we're not saying it we're not saying it works so let me say this 0.99

00:41:54.280 clearly because dumb fuck david newart who's uh obviously a racist because he's uh he contributes to 0.99

00:42:03.560 the splc center i don't know if you could be a contributor without being a racist is that even 1.00

00:42:10.600 possible because most of the splc stuff is just just racist nonsense so i'm assuming he's a racist just

00:42:18.120 because of his association but i assume he assumes that about me so and by the way i assume it just

00:42:26.040 for fun because who knows what's in other people's heads but the association i mean come on if you're

00:42:33.880 associating with a racist illegitimate group uh don't expect me not to think you're that you're one of 0.99

00:42:41.240 them so this is a really good question um when you when anybody such as david the dumb fuck says that uh 0.99

00:42:51.720 the i or anyone else is not compatible with science what does that exactly mean and as the letter points 0.96

00:42:59.800 out even saying that is a misunderstanding of what the science is because the moment you say science says

00:43:08.200 something it's like you've also signaled that you don't understand what science is it's a lot of

00:43:13.720 people disagreeing and testing and crawling toward the truth it's not one opinion science is not an

00:43:21.720 opinion it's a lot of different people doing a lot of different stuff all right so um 0.99

00:43:31.000 um so this was my first test you might you might ask yourself why did i not simply block dumb fuck 0.89

00:43:39.640 david newart and the reason i didn't block him is that i wanted to um well i had several purposes one is 0.97

00:43:48.520 that i wanted to test the poorly educated uh kill shot because it's i think it's got a lot of power

00:43:55.640 because calling people poorly educated when they think they're the educated ones i mean that's how 0.99

00:44:02.520 they come into the conversation i'm the educated one let me school the ignorant savages on the other 0.99

00:44:09.320 side when they come into it and you call them poorly educated and then you back it up you're poorly 0.98

00:44:15.560 educated here's a fact you don't know you're poorly educated here's another fact you don't know

00:44:20.920 you're poorly educated have you noticed i know all the facts that you know but you don't know all

00:44:25.720 the facts that i know what does that make you poorly educated poorly educated now your college might have

00:44:32.120 been fine but you're obviously watching bad news sources so or incomplete let's say incomplete

00:44:40.920 so i wanted to test that kill shot but also i think it's instructive as a warning to others

00:44:46.760 others it's a warning to others so doing it publicly instead of just blocking them so i don't have to

00:44:53.480 deal with them it it sort of puts it's like putting a head on a post you know it's like

00:45:01.000 maybe you don't want to come into this you know maybe you don't want to trespass on this property

00:45:06.680 because this property has a severed head on a post if you see the severed head of the post you might think

00:45:14.040 i don't want to go into that property so part of it is a you know a warning to others but um did you

00:45:21.080 notice if you look at the exchange and some of you might go back and look at it if you haven't seen it

00:45:25.960 i made a claim a while ago that if somebody misinterprets you on social media or anywhere

00:45:32.280 else if they misinterpret you and then they criticize their own misinterpretation what i used to think would

00:45:40.120 work is correcting their impression of my opinion but over uh 63 years of life i finally have to give

00:45:49.640 up and say that has never worked once not once not one single time has somebody ever misinterpreted my

00:45:58.920 opinion criticized the misinterpretation and then when i came and said oh that's not my opinion this is

00:46:05.800 actually my opinion not once in my whole life has anyone then said oh okay i guess i read that wrong

00:46:15.640 doesn't happen what do they do they change to another misperception of your idea or it gets even worse

00:46:24.680 they accuse you of not knowing your own opinion and say that they know your opinion better than you know

00:46:30.280 your opinion because they they misread something once it just goes crazy so you can see it in this

00:46:36.680 one where i i corrected him so first of all uh he didn't know that i'm not all right i'm left to bernie

00:46:45.880 so his first starting assumption is wrong he didn't know that my public assumption on hydroxychloroquine

00:46:54.120 is that it probably doesn't work i've said that many times in public he doesn't know that i've said

00:47:01.640 there are zero studies that are credible wouldn't it be great if we had some there's some anecdotal stuff

00:47:07.400 and maybe the risk management says that give it a try but i don't think i could be more perfectly

00:47:13.720 perfectly um perfectly compatible with the doctors my opinion 0.97

00:47:22.840 is uh somebody says flynn was not unmasked you writers are crazy

00:47:29.400 uh i don't know if that let me just change the topic there because that diverted me are the people on

00:47:36.120 the right crazy because they found out that uh oh i actually maybe that was sarcasm never mind

00:47:43.720 i was going to criticize it but i just realized it was sarcasm um yeah flynn was spied on the

00:47:51.160 details don't really matter that much do they all right uh sorry it took me a minute to catch up to the

00:47:57.800 fact that that was sarcasm somebody says we're trying to ignore the left of bernie part but let me uh

00:48:06.600 let me give you all a compliment if i may and this is a sincere compliment it's also a sincere

00:48:13.320 appreciation of you i am completely aware that at least 90 of my main audience doesn't agree with

00:48:24.200 me on some of the most basic things but i totally respect and appreciate the fact that you let me do

00:48:32.520 this the fact that you let me give my reasons you know you let me live my you know my version of

00:48:39.800 what i think is right i don't have to hide it from you and i say this about the right all the time

00:48:47.000 the right is way more open-minded than the left it's not even close and you know the common view

00:48:53.640 is the opposite and the thing that people get wrong is that for the right you just have to hit the basic

00:49:01.240 basis do you love your constitution yes yes 100 give me some constitution we're all we got to play by the

00:49:13.960 same rules do you like the rule of law yes yes i mean lots of mistakes and flaws but it's a pretty good

00:49:23.080 system yes of course of course i like it do i respect all of your opinions yes totally even the ones i

00:49:33.320 disagree with completely respect them now if i like your constitution and i respect your opinions and the

00:49:43.960 rule of law and and i'm big on being an american what do conservatives say about me i i can tell

00:49:51.640 you that i don't believe in god which i tell you all the time but as long as i have full respect for

00:49:57.480 your belief system which i do i think religion is far more positive than negative it's like any tool

00:50:04.360 you can misuse it but use properly it's an amazing thing and helps people in their life i'm all for it

00:50:11.400 but do you judge me do you judge me for not being a believer not really i mean if you're doing it

00:50:18.280 privately it's just in your own mind i've had zero people just think about this think about think about

00:50:25.240 if i were to go over to the left and say anything out of the ordinary anything that wasn't their belief

00:50:31.000 i would be canceled in about like a hot second for just having a different opinion on the left but i

00:50:38.200 could go over the right and say the most basic disagreeing thing that you could ever think of

00:50:45.240 which is you know i don't believe in god

00:50:49.720 does anybody care no because constitution because freedom because freedom of speech freedom of thought

00:50:59.720 as long as i'm respectful boom you're fine right as long as i respect you

00:51:07.400 it just comes back it's that simple so that that's something that the left completely misses about

00:51:14.040 the right is how phenomenally open-minded they are as long as you hit the bases if you don't hit the

00:51:20.520 bases you got a big trouble right like you i could be i could be anti-gun i'm not but i could be and you'd

00:51:28.760 still watch this as long as i showed my work as long as i respected your opinion and as long as we

00:51:35.720 both agreed that the constitution says that you can have a gun right i think everybody would be okay

00:51:42.440 with that as long as i as long as i was you know not trying to fool you or con you or and it was just

00:51:47.880 my opinion you'd be fine with that so and and this is so not true on the left i mean it's not even a

00:51:54.520 little bit true so it's weird that uh i could find more of a home over here uh because you're more

00:52:02.760 open-minded so that's a compliment to you i think you deserve it and i'm going to end here on that

00:52:11.800 positive thought um i saw that there are 10 vaccines being uh tested 10 vaccines being tested

00:52:22.200 yeah somebody's talking about my abortion stance which is basically that i should stay out of it

00:52:27.640 um yeah i i think you even respect that somebody says the pope hat is disrespectful

00:52:34.680 now you know i think you have to look at the intention there's no such thing as a disrespectful

00:52:42.920 hat all right a hat can't be disrespectful it's all about what i mean when i put it on when i put it on

00:52:51.720 it's just for fun it's not disrespecting anybody i would not want you to take it that way

00:52:58.600 all right that's that's it for now and i will talk to you in the morning

00:53:04.680 you know where

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 26, 2020

Episode 997 Scott Adams： There Will be Cursing Tonight. Lots of Cursing. Hide the Children.

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