Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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ything changing. Here's a question. I saw a claim on Twitter that the oceans have been cooling for a while, and that would be the opposite of what climate change says. How long did it take somebody to debunk that? Oh, about 10 seconds. And do you know how you debunk it? You just change the start point. You just change the start point. If you pick your start point at a certain point, it looks like…

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I actually totally agree with the Biden interpretation. I think that if you took the simplistic explanation of a recession of just two periods of negative growth, that doesn't make sense coming out of a pandemic, because coming out of the pandemic just changed everything, right? So if you had a temporary reset — I shouldn't call it that. If you had a temporary depression coming out of a pandemic, it could be that all of your assets and resources are in pretty good shape. They just have to be spun up again. So I do think that the Biden administration is accurate. And by the way, I would have defended Trump for saying the same thing. If Trump had said this, I'd defend it as well. I do think this specific case, just in this specific case, you do have to look at it holistically. So I hate to agree. I hate to agree because they're sort of weaseling the thing, but it's not wrong. That's not wrong. I think you have to look at it holistically because it's weird that employment is still good. That was the part that was a mystery, but I got the answer to that mystery. We'll talk about it.

All right, here's another example of news being created out of a word. The news in the Wall Street Journal, which I believe has been completely debunked in my opinion — this is not true. I don't know, but in my opinion what I'm going to read to you is a fake news story from Wall Street Journal, who claimed that Elon Musk had an affair. That was their word, an affair. And this is the word that's going to be questioned here. An affair with one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin's ex-wife. Now the reporting is that this alleged thing, which Musk and the woman involved and Sergey Brin and basically anybody who knows anything denies, denies. And then I believe it. Their denials look incredible t

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o me. But here's the part that I'm not going to be able to unsee. The reporting from Wall Street Journal, which I believe is false, says that the quote affair happened during a time that Sergey Brin and his wife were separated but living in the same home. Now let me connect the dots here for you. The Wall Street Journal says Musk had an affair with somebody who is single. You see where I'm going…

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