Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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being professionally courteous and maybe thinks that the audience would be interested in the book, it's not an endorsement of the person. It's not an endorsement of all that person has done. It's more like I wrote a book, you wrote a book, your book is interesting, maybe other people would like it too. That's it, right? Authors promote other people's books. It doesn't mean anything. Scott is waff…

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behalf of the people who don't exist.

Have you ever met anybody who was offended by words? I never have. If you talk to anybody individually they'll say oh no it doesn't bother me. It's just something some jerk said. Why would I care about what some jerk said? But I'm pretty sure other people are going to be offended. I'm pretty sure other people are going to be offended.

Now let me say again I'm a fan of wokeness. I know it sounds weird because I'm one of the biggest critics of wokeness but also a fan. And here's how that's consistent. The Dilbert comic for which you know I'm notorious is about good ideas that are taken too far. That's what it's about. Because management is a good idea. You can't have an unmanaged company. But if you take it too far you're micromanaging. If you take it too far you're doing whatever the latest trend is before knowing it's a good idea. So everything I talk about is a basic good idea that's just been taken to some ridiculous point.

So what do I think about calling people by the name that they would like to be called? I call that good manners. That's not even a conversation. Yeah, whatever you want. If that's how you feel comfortable I'd be happy to do it. Now if somebody said I would like you to call me King Scott I Suck Before You that's my legal name. Whenever you refer to me call me King Scott I Suck Before You. And I said no, don't call me Scott. I prefer to be called King Scott I Suck Before Your Great Presence. That's my full name. Now that would be too far, right?

So there's got to be some limits on wokeness but I don't mind anybody has his or her preference. But as I've said before and I will say a million times: in return for my flexibility and my attempt to have good manners and treat people the way they would like to be treated, you're gonna have to give me a break if I get it wrong. And I'm not going to take any wiggle on that. If I get one wrong, I misgender you, whatever, and you've got a problem with that, if you correct me I will take that under advisement and hope to do better. If you attack me — everybody makes mistakes — if you attack me for that mistake because I don't have bad intentions, right? You can attack people for bad intentions. You can attack me for bad intentions. If you ever see me with bad intentions, free punch. Let me say it again. If you ever are sure — I hope you'd be sure about it, don't guess — but if you ever see me having bad intentions, free punch. Come at me as hard as you want. I try not to do that. I don't think I ever have but I try not to.

So let's keep pretending there are people who are offended when none of us have ever met any. And by the way if I ever do meet somebody who's offended by that kind of stuff I don't really want to be their friend. I wouldn't spend a minute with somebody who's offended by stuff like that because you know it's just going to come back to you basically. Somebody who's offended by words is just telling you you don't want to interact with them in any way at all. Just run away.

All right, I'm seeing some graphs again that people are saying that the vaccinations are hurting people because there are more people hospitalized who are vax than unvax. How many times do we have to go over this? That the population of people who got vaccinated are by nature the weakest ones. So of course the vaccinated would have more hospitalizations. It's exactly what you would expect. But it's being used as proof that vaccinations are hurting you.

Now let me be very clear. I don't believe any data about vaccinations. None. There's basically nothing about the pandemic that I believe because it's all been we've been fooled so many times that as soon as you think you know something you're like, well got disappointed there. Now I don't know if vaccinations helped or hurt.

But I'm going to tell you what I think my scorecard is. All right, this will offend you greatly. I'm going to say again that I had the best pandemic predictions by far in my opinion. Nobody came close. But I won't get any agreement on that because people still disagree what's true. As long as we're disagreeing about what's true then you can't say who had good predictions. But mine are shaping up to be the truest so far.

Let me give you some ideas. So in early 2020 I said vitamin D looked like it was crucial in COVID. I just told you that I don't think the studie

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s have proven it but they're all leaning in that direction. So if that turned out to be true or even just a correlation that was important I'd say I got that one early and correctly. But it's definitely not confirmed that boosting your levels would help you with COVID. It might be later. I predicted that the vaccines wouldn't work. Right now a lot of people believe I did the opposite. But when it…

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