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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss fake science, fake news, fake facts, and fake facts that don't make sense. Today's episode features: Fake science Fake facts Fake Science Fake Facts Fake News
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all right look at all those comments it's not frozen on my side everything's looking good here
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oh comments are scrolling too look at that look at that all working good
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all right yes uh we're not locals is not getting rid of comments they will just move to the rumble
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studio so your comments will all be here and then um they're working on the technology to get them to
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be a little faster if that's possible might not be possible but i think there's a six to eight second
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delay in the comments anyway let's jump right into it the fake science i like to start with
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fake science nbc news reports there's a study that says you might be able to slow your biological
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aging by eating less how many times have you heard this story i feel like this is the millionth study
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that showed us maybe for the last 30 years 40 years haven't we been hearing the same study just
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repeated every year for 40 years i'm not alone in that right
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uh but here's what's left out and why i consider this fake science fake science it's because
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the thing that they say they're measuring is that you eat fewer calories
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so they have a control group that eats what they want i guess and another group that has
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limited calories and then they measure their biomarkers and they find out that the people
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who ate less food have better biomarkers now there's an obvious point to this which is obesity
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is not good for you but if you're doing a short-term study it seems weird that you know that you'd see a
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big difference in the short term but here's what's left out i'm pretty sure that our food supply is
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largely poison meaning that the more food you eat it's not just more calories it's more poison
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it's more additives it's more pesticides there's more everything so they did it they did a test to
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see if eating fewer calories made you healthy healthier but they never tested to see if eating
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less poison makes you uh healthier don't you think if you were eating at mcdonald's and you just did
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less of it it's not just the calories that you got less of you got less of all the stuff you didn't
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want in your body of course it makes you healthier of course it does so that's a weird science and
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there's not even a mention to the fact that the food itself might be bad for you
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all right here's more fake science i guess the uh biden administration is trying to come up with a
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new climate forecast model that would take into account what they want to do in terms of uh
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um reducing aircraft contribution to co2 so they're trying to figure out how to model
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just what would be different if they get a greener type of um jet fuel
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so here's something that's uh embedded in the story that if you didn't notice it you wouldn't know
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that it debunked all models so within the story saying how they're going to create a model
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is a paragraph that debunks all models they don't call it out that way you just have to notice it
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all right here's that paragraph um it says the rumor has it that those involved with the modeling
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process can't find common ground regarding the actual impact of corn usage in the synthesis
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some believe that it should be weighted with a higher penalty since carbon generation occurs during
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the harvesting phase the ethanol industry wants to see its carbon impact as low as possible in order
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to blah blah blah all right did you did you catch it yeah in that was the debunking of all climate
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models how many of you how many of you saw it all right here's what you should see the climate models
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are completely dependent on the assumptions the model's not even important the assumption they make
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about how important it is to let's say just using their example um to consider or not consider
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i don't know the time of the season when you're picking the corn or something like that so so you
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can simply make an assumption that would completely change the outcome now is this a special case is this
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the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output
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no it's the only way it can be there's no other way it can be in the real world the assumptions that the
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people the study people put into it determines the output that's the opposite of science
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it's the opposite you can't be more opposite than the people sitting in a room debating what
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assumptions should be in your model that's the that's the least scientific thing anybody ever did
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ever but we still we still have this little fiction like the models could predict the future
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nope never have never will um there's a company that i still have a subscription to called i stock
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where you get stock photos that you could use you know with a license approval and every now and then
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i'll use one of those for my posting on social media so i wanted to look for a picture of a moron
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because i was going to do a post in which a dumb person you know would be a good picture for it
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so i uh went there and i searched within i stock and this is a getty getty company they own it
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um and i looked for moron um do you think there were any issues with
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the diversity the way they handled the diversity so it was a page of morons
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and uh but they weren't all the same now i hope this doesn't kick me off here
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but uh let me show you some uh some of the moron pictures see if this works
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um first of all it was almost all white people but there was one black person on the page
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and you think to yourself how'd they handle that yeah how are they going to have diversity
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in a moron uh result it's going to be pretty hard but here's how they handled it
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uh there were a bunch of white people shown and i think a few asians
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and here's a white person here he is you know drinking has crazy eyes and he's got weird teeth
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and everything he's like ah not doing too well now this was typical there were lots of white people
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looking like morons but then here's the here's the sensitive part they also have a picture of a
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young black man that comes up in the moron search now how did they how do you think they handled that
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so here's here's their image of a black moron which is funny because he looks more like a scientist or a lawyer
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the difference is hilarious i mean this uh if i had to guess i would say almost certainly college
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educated looks like he's doing pretty well good looking smart looking guys smart eyes smart face
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all right well just pointing that out um i don't think i stock images is going to last more than a
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year because ai should pretty pretty much put him out of business and maybe it should
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there's a a school district in aurora the state where aurora is i don't know where's aurora
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somewhere somewhere in the middle west somewhere aurora anyway somewhere in the united states
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the superintendent says that you may not this is actually in a document
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uh you may not implement or adopt any program that does not prioritize uh diversity equity and
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inclusion now what does prioritize mean in your in your world view it doesn't oh colorado so aurora
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colorado thank you so what does it mean to prioritize tei wouldn't that mean that you sort of had to put it
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in front of oh i don't know everything that's what it means right if you prioritize it you push it above
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other considerations what would be the other considerations good ideas things that work
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as soon as you throw in prioritize it's just racist there's no other way to look at it
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there's no second way to look at this if you say if you say in writing it's our policy to prioritize
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it there isn't any way to prioritize it unless you give up other things so what are you giving up they
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should tell us what they're de-emphasizing what are you giving up all right uh
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uh so as i told you our food supply is very dangerous but getting more dangerous every day
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apparently there was a food airdrop in gaza in which one of the parachutes didn't open and five people
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were killed by falling the food big pallet of food now i don't know how you give five people with one
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pallet of food that's like the worst luck i've ever seen in my life not only as glenn greenwald points
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out not only did these poor people survive the bombing and the famine and god knows what disease
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and deprivation they're going through and then they get killed with a pallet of food now
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that's just about the worst thing i've ever heard but it certainly gives you this weird feeling
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that if your time has come your time has come you ever you ever feel that this is like the reverse of
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that joke you know you know the old joke i tell too many times about the flood and you know god says i
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sent you a car i sent you a boat i sent you a helicopter you know you just didn't take them
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but there's like the the bad evil backwards version of that it's like you know god i tried to kill you
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with the bombs i tried to kill you with the starvation none of that worked so i'm just
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drop a pallet of food right on your heads and kill you all so yes it's just the worst thing i've ever
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heard in my life in terms of bad luck geez so i i do believe that you can hold two thoughts in your
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head which is that what's happening over there is horrific on a scale that we hope we would never see
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again in in modern society at the same time what else are you going to do if somebody had a better idea
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i'm sure they would have suggested it um there's a study that says that a lot of americans can't buy
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cars so you need an annual income of a hundred thousand dollars to purchase a car i assume that
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means a new car so on average if you don't make a hundred thousand dollars you can't get a car
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but most uh the average american household is closer to eighty thousand so buying a car
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in today's world pretty hard um what they don't say is that even if you have money you can't buy a car
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it's almost impossible to buy a car has everybody tried to buy a car i won't i won't bore you with my
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whole story but let me tell you my there's a quick version of buying a toyota truck so i wanted to get a
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tacoma so i go to the toyota dealer and look around i think oh they must have closed this dealership
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there's no trucks no toyotas but i go inside because they're actually open and it turns out
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they don't have almost any inventory and the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets
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purchased before it arrives at the lot they can't make them fast enough
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so here's so if you want to buy a truck you could buy one that's in the pipeline
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but the pipeline ones are all random combinations of features and colors that are very unlikely to be
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what you want but if you're lucky and you can get one in the pipeline before all the other people who
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are also looking at the same pipeline before they grab it well then and only then you can have a toyota
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truck literally you can't buy one so i so i tell the the salesperson well if you get a truck that meets
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you know these criteria which weren't that restrictive you know give me a call and i'll come right down and
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buy it no call say when i tried to buy a ford truck a while ago um you know they didn't have any i could
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drive and i've never owned a truck i've driven them but i've never owned a truck and i thought i'm not
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going to buy a truck i can't even drive one that's in the same general idea so i couldn't buy a truck
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and i couldn't buy a ford i couldn't buy a toyota and so there we are anyway i can see why um and then i
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thought about the process of negotiating for a car and i thought i would almost rather do anything
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than spend a whole day negotiating has anybody brought their laptop to a car purchase
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because remember they used to use the trick where they'd say i'll talk to my boss and be gone for an
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hour and what they're really trying to do is make you stay there as long as possible so you're too
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invested in the process to ever say no that that's why they do it so they're trying to wear you down
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physically they're trying to physically exhaust you so has anybody brought their laptop and say hey
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take your time i got a lot of work to do and they just start happily doing your work on your laptop
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while they while they they think they're sweating you out but you're actually getting a lot of work
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done hey i think i'll send some posts if you haven't done that yet you need to do it
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because it ruins their whole game because you know they're they're back there like peeking out to
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see if you're still there so they can run out in case you leave they'll run out and grab you and
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bring you back so you know they're watching so just make it look like you're really having a good
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time on your laptop getting a lot of work done anyway there's a uh oh we we hear that uh the x platform
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is going to compete with youtube so they're going to have a big video platform that it'll play on some
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smart tvs that's a big announcement and it will look very much like the youtube interface so musk is
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going big for a video which is the smart play there's a little garage startup who's made a uh what would
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be an eight thousand dollar robot and it it's they print the parts and they put little motors in it
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who's it called i think it's uh k scale labs and the funny part is that the the founder of this little
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garage startup uh as soon as i saw him talking i said my god that's elon musk too he looks like elon
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musk he looks like him and talks like him and then i looked in the comments and somebody else said the
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same thing i don't so good i'm not imagining it so yeah there's somebody who reminds you of elon
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musk who just made an eight thousand dollar robot that you could just have running around your house
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now i'm assuming you just load it with i don't know one of their ais um but here's what i would
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like to suggest if somebody could tell me who makes the best little motors for robots because each of the
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you know the arms and legs of the robot are going to have a number of motors and servos or whatever
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they're called to activate all the body shouldn't we be investing in little motors that go into
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robots is there a company that owns that like nvidia owns the chips for ai it doesn't seem like that's
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the the shovel investment for the the gold rush because the robots are going to use a lot of little