nd you can't live among the population anymore, something like that. And I always look for, all right, what's my worst-case scenario? Where can I go? And Iceland was on my short list because I like, wow, you know, bet you could go there and just hide from the rest of the world for a while. And now the whole place might turn into a volcano. So no place is safe.

There's a study on willow bark extract. I know you were waiting to find out about that, weren't you? You're all like, I hope he talks about the willow bark extract because that's some news right there. Well, it turns out this willow bark, you put it in tea or something, make a tea out of it, and it can thwart all kinds of viruses. So everything from seasonal colds to COVID-19 to viruses that affect completely different conditions. So it's sort of a broad-spectrum virus killer. But it might be so easy to obtain and maybe so hard to patent that you'll never be able to take it. But if things go bad, go find yourself a, well, I don't want to tell you to take bark off a tree and consume it. That seems like bad advice. You should probably listen to a doctor before you eat any tree bark or make tea out of it. But it's good to know it's an option.

This is one of these news stories that I like to give you toward the beginning to show you that even though the news might look like it's all doom and gloom at the moment, there might be some really, really big things that are brewing to make things better. I mean, suppose they did come up with a broad-spectrum antiviral that just like took a big piece out of every virus. Totally possible that that could actually happen. I mean, that would be very transformational for life on Earth.

Have I ever told you that science isn't real and they're mostly just making it up? I didn't used to think that. You know, when I was a kid I thought science was like the best way to understand the world. And of course I was born right around the time that science was telling you cigarettes were good for you. That's about when I was born. And I was born about the time that the government was telling you that the food pyramid was how you should eat. No, no, no, no, not true. But it just keeps getting funnier and funnier at how bad science has always been and we didn't know it.

I've told you this before. So in the late '90s I wrote a book called The Dilbert Future, and I've said this before but it's a good lead-up to what I'm going to talk about. And I said to myself, I'll bet you I could pick anything that science knows to be true for sure. I could predict that it will be overturned by science in the future, and that I would be right and I would look like a prophet. And so I had two choices. I was like, I'm going to pick the Big Bang or I'm going to pick the theory of evolution. Because I thought, okay, those are two things that nobody is going to say is going to change. We really get those things. We understand them. And in my lifetime, sure enough, the Big Bang has been at least thrown into question because our better telescopes can see that there are galaxies formed that don't make sense if there was a Big Bang. So did anybody see that that would be overturned? I mean I don't know what it's been replaced with. I mean that's still a mystery. But and I would argue that evolution has been debunked, but you're welcome to disagree. And I would say that evolution has been debunked by the simulation theory. Now we don't know that we're a simulation. It's just that it's a trillion to one odds that it is, which would make evolution more of a perceptual thing and not any part of reality.

So I picked the two most basic things of science, and in my opinion, this is my opinion, they've both been debunked to my satisfaction in my lifetime. I was right on both of them. Now the one I picked was evolution, but yeah, I could have picked the Big Bang. But here's another one. So yesterday I was talking about why is it that if we all evolved from people who came from Africa, why is it that when I do my 23andMe it doesn't have any African in it? And I thought, well, is that just because it gets so diluted over time that it eventually effectively disappears? Is that why? Because it didn't really smell right. Because I've got some Neanderthal in there, a solid 2% or something. And I thought, hmm, it does seem like stuff lasts a long time. So why wouldn't there be a little bit more African in me?

And then I find out apparently there's been this whole debunking of the Out of Africa theory. How many of you knew that? How many of you knew that there is some serious debunking about the theory that we all started in Africa and everything spread out from there? Well, you know, I've only just touched the surface, but apparently books have been written and there are a whole bunch of alternative theories that seem to make more sense than the Out of Africa. And you know what? And here's the realization that came from it. The Out of Africa theory was always a racist theory, wasn't it? Did it grow out of science or did it grow out of scientists being racists? It looks like it was just a racist theory the whole time. Because nobody says this directly, right? But imagine you're an anthropologist in what year did we come up with the Out of Africa idea? Can you give me a historical, give me a calendar on that? Was it 1800s or 1900s? When did we decide that people evolved out of Africa? Early 1900s? 186? Somebody says mid-1800s. That's when people started finding fossils and whatnot, right?

So here's what I think. I think that the world was a super racist place, and that the anthropologists, because they were super racist, they came up with this idea that the Africans were more primitive and that the peopl