Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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sip. It happens now. Go. That's so good. Well, I've added some members to my personal disinformation board. I told you yesterday that I've created my own disinformation board. These are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't. Now importantly, in order to be a member of my disinformation board, you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the b…

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othing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he goes after both sides.

But you see Bill Maher essentially using his position to try to make things better. And I would say he is, to me it looks like he's succeeding wildly and in a way that I think is really impressive actually, because he's staying on it. He's got the audience, he's got the access, and he can tell them that their narrative is a little messed up. It's probably the best example of what we're saying.

Now a number of people are saying, "What can we do about this fake news and disinformation?" And there is a book you can read that teaches you how to be more immune from disinformation. It turns out I wrote it. It's called *Loserthink*. I think it's behind me. Yeah, it's behind me. It's that one in the middle.

Now *Loserthink* is written specifically for this problem. And it turns out that the situation or the times caught up to me. I mean obviously fake news has been a problem for a number of years but it's reached some kind of a peak. And now that the book is out, somebody says, "Nice shell." Look, it's not a shill when you're talking about your own book. It happens to be exactly aimed at the biggest problem in the world.

So there's always some troll who will find the worst way to spin everything. Nice shill. Let me tell you some more about the book. I've already been paid. I got an advance. Most of my books don't sell past the advance, which means you're asking for the right things. So I'm not even going to make money from this. I won't make a penny if you buy my book. Do you understand that, Michelle? You understand that my personal income won't change a bit if you buy that book because I'm already paid. I don't even have any requirement to market it at this point. I mean in the beginning you do, but not at this point. That literally the only reason I'm recommending it is this is exactly the book that's written for exactly this problem. So try to deal with that, okay?

All right. So I tweeted that out. If anybody hasn't read *Loserthink*, it is exactly on target for our current situation.

Well, I told you that after publishing my comic in which I introduced the new character Dave, who is a black engineer in the Dilbert group, I got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run that. Their reasoning was, who knows. I think some of them just didn't think it was worth the pr

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ovocation or something. So I'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it. I haven't heard anybody. Yeah, let me say this definitively. Although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series — so they just put repeats in there or left a blank — nobody complained. Let me say that again. So I have many client newspapers who run Dilbert. Thousands of them. A few thousand. Not a sing…

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