Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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you feel close to your military? Do you feel that? I feel close to them. Meaning, you know, connected. Like, you know, we're sort of all in this together. That wasn't always the case. You know, it's a luxury in this country that you can let the military go off and fight their wars and you can think about other stuff. I mean that's a gigantic luxury. But at the moment we do feel close to them. And…

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always is? It shouldn't be. You think that it would be science alone that would determine whether you need a booster for the Moderna. But as long as the economics say you do need one, is there any chance it won't happen? It feels like it's just guaranteed by the fact that they'd make more money and they control the data. If you control the data and you would make billions of dollars if you show the data one way versus maybe another way, what's going to happen? I think the data is going to coincidentally look the way that makes you billions of dollars. I know that's super cynical and the world doesn't always work that way and I'm not saying it does. I'm saying that if you made predictions as if the world always worked that way you would be astonished how often you're right. And you won't know why. It'll fool you. Like you'll even be surprised like, oh I'm surprised that worked.

Joe Rogan seems to be pretty angry that he sold a bunch of tickets to Madison Square Garden for his upcoming show in October. But from the time that he announced the show, New York City required vaccinations for anybody going to public events. And so now Joe Rogan has sold a bunch of tickets and people already bought the ticket and after they bought the ticket they find out they can't go unless they get a vaccination. So Joe Rogan, to his credit, is saying they can get their money back because he's not going to — he doesn't want to be part of forcing people to get vaccinations. So you can get your money back from a Joe Rogan show. And damn it, Joe Rogan, that just makes me want to go to your show. Why do you do that? It makes me want to fly across the country and just go to the show just because you said that you won't put up with this forced vaccination stuff. So he continues to make popular and smart decisions. So that's a little commercial for Joe Rogan, who totally earned it.

Here's some more fake news and how to recognize it. So CNN is reporting that although this Ida didn't reach the worst case scenario, it was pretty bad. Million people without power, a lot of flooding, two deaths so far. So it's bad. Could have been a lot worse. But CNN is reporting that climate change is making storms more frequent. Hurricanes are more frequent because of climate change. All right, suppose that's all I told you. CNN is reporting that climate change makes the storms more frequent. How do you know it's fake news? Go tell me how you know that's fake news just from that one sentence.

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rts and they show studies and let's say they refer to science. They're not just making it up, right? They're referring to science. They say that the storms are more frequent and the climate change is being used as the explanation. No sources? No, they do have sources. They have sources. So how do you know it's fake news? I'm going to be real disappointed if you don't get this. Come on. I'm looking…

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