Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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, I'm not ruling out that the single-parent thing is actually the cause of the other things. I'm not ruling it out. I'm saying it's just not demonstrated. It's just correlation. It's just not causation. It might be. It might be. Let me give you a different way to look at it. Now this is not, I'm not saying this is true. This is not a claim of truth. This is just so you could think of like a menta…

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it in a limited way, there's a story on CNN where the CNN correspondent went to, I think it was Jamaica, where it's legal, and did a story in which he was observed doing mushrooms. Can you imagine any world in which CNN would have their own host go to another country so that it's legal and take an illegal drug, illegal in this country, and then just do a story about how it felt and what he learned and stuff? Doesn't that seem amazing to you? And it was a positive story. So the bottom line was, you know, nothing bad about mushrooms. But the fact that CNN is really the representative of the mainstream in many ways, they're basically saying mushrooms, yes. Did you see that coming? That's the most unusual outcome that the mainstream is seeing mushrooms as it's time to go, time to legalize them. It's quite a surprise, because I think a lot of people on the right have been there for a long time. Yeah, just in terms of freedom. Yeah, why don't I have the freedom to put in my body what I want? Not all the people on the right, but you know, the freedom-loving ones.

I saw an argument on also CNN that Trump's decla

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ssification argument is bunk. And the idea is that Trump is claiming that he can declassify anything just by thinking it. I agree with that. So I agree with Trump's take that if there's no written law and it's up to the president, then he can do what he wants. But apparently during the Obama administration there was an executive order that was created that did give some guidelines about how to han…

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