Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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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 extra…

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e like them were the ones who evolved from the more primitive stuff. Literally the most racist thing you could ever come up with. And then they embedded it into basic science, when in fact the evidence seems to suggest that humans started in maybe more than one place. And that's the whole story. But there was a lot of interspecies banging. The early days of humanity must have been wild because it turns out you could bang a monkey, you could bang a Neanderthal, you know, you could get those Denisovans or whatever they are, the little ones. How wild is that? Like today we're like, would you date somebody Irish? Oh no, I'd never date somebody Irish. Actually I've never heard anybody say that, but suppose they did. But back then it was like, I had a little Neanderthal tang last night. How was it? Well it was wild. It was wild. I recommend it. Have you ever tried a Denisovan? Homo erectus. Can't wait to get some Homo erectus action. All right, sounds worse than it is.

All right, let's talk about, so everything is wrong about science. It always was. Ronna McDaniel. Damn it, I can't do it. I swear to God I was looking at the name and trying to read Ronna McDaniel and my brain couldn't actually do it. My brain turned her into a clown, a fast food clown. Now wasn't it Laura Ingraham who made the same mistake on TV and had to correct it in real time? I think I watched somebody else just do the same thing and then quickly correct herself. What could be more damning than being criticize

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d and people keep calling you accidentally a clown's name? I mean there aren't that many famous clowns, right? How many clowns can you name? Go. How many clowns? There's Ronald McDonald and then Bozo. Give me another clown. There are very few clowns that you can name, right? I mean Red Skelton a million years ago, right? So they're all, yeah, I don't know about the Burger King. That's more of a we…

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