Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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he study, their own study. I'll just read it straight and you tell me that this straight fact is not funny. All right, here it is. Only Democratic voters believe most reporters are simply trying to report the news in an unbiased fashion. Funny that there's somebody in this country, and they can be easily identified with one side of the political divide, believe that the news is actually the news.…

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l I think it's fair to say that in general the news is no longer the old-fashioned news. It's really just different interests. They are moving their interests.

All right. Question for you, because I don't know if you're seeing it. Everybody on social media is blowing up over the World Health Organization and their statement that masks don't work. When obviously, by the way, my nose isn't running, it's itching and I'm trying not to touch my face in front of you. It's just psychosomatic, let's say. So was I saying, oh, who told you this first? Where is the first place you ever heard this? So when all of our professionals were telling us that wearing masks, oh God, the edge wouldn't help, who's the first person you heard say in public, well that's just a lie. Like it's just an obvious lie. They're wearing masks won't help you in any way.

And the reason, see, is because I think I'm the first person who said it publicly. Because, you know, there are a lot of people saying it now. But it's harder to say it when you're the first person because I said it just looking at the news from the most qualified professional authoritative medical sources. Right? I mean I looked at complete agreement across all the spectrum of medical sources and a hundred percent of them said, no joke, these masks won't help. Don't wear them

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. And alone among, I felt, I felt like a loon among observers. And I doubt I was alone. One has to assume that in other places people were saying the same thing. But I didn't see it when I said it. And I said, well, that's just clearly a lie. Here's why I thought it was a lie. It's in a little book called Loserthink. It's my book. I'm sure you've all read it. If you haven't, what's wrong with you…

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