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July 30, 2020 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 1076 Scott Adams: Trump is Medically Correct and CNN Might Be Killing Tens-of-Thousands

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Alright, this is a special Periscope on one topic.
I'm going to be talking about President Trump's opinion on hydroxychloroquine versus the mainstream media.
And I'll use CNN as my stand-in for the mainstream media.
And I want to show you the trick that is being played on the public.
So there's a persuasion trick that CNN and the anti-Trump folks are doing.
And I just want to unravel the trick so you can watch it in real time.
And here's the setup.
So the idea that Dr.
Zelenko, I think, was the first to come up with is that the treatment with these three medicines in combination might work for coronavirus and COVID. Now, the first thing you need to know is that the whole point of it is that the hydroxychloroquine is delivering the zinc and if you don't have the zinc Nothing's getting delivered, so maybe nothing happens.
The azithromycin may be important or not.
It's not clear.
But let's look at what the doctors think versus what Trump thinks and compare it to what CNN thinks.
I would guess that maybe 50,000 doctors around the world are actually using it on themselves or they're prescribing it.
First of all, would you agree that that's probably somewhere in the neighborhood, 50,000 doctors, if you look at the entire world?
Now, I base that on the fact that I have personally talked to several doctors who say that 95% of all the other doctors they know are using it prophylactically or prescribing it.
So, would you agree that there's some tens of thousands?
I'm just going to use 50,000 just to make the case.
It might be 100,000.
It might be 10,000.
But it won't change it too much, right?
The point is, there's a whole bunch of doctors who say some version of this.
It might work.
They don't say it does work.
They say it might work. It's very safe.
And it's cheap. Now, who does that sound like?
That sounds like Trump. That's exactly what Trump says.
Trump says it might work.
I don't think Trump has ever said this works.
Correct me on that if you can find something that looks like he said it does work.
But I think that Trump is exactly compatible with 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 doctors.
Now what does CNN say about this?
They say it's dangerous.
It doesn't work. And the trials prove it is ineffective.
And then they tell you that Trump is being unscientific and not listening to the experts.
That's the exact opposite of what's happening.
The experts are the doctors.
The experts that CNN looks to are virologists and scientists and researchers and people who do studies.
That's a different kind of expert.
Now, it is true that they're much less happy about hydroxychloroquine.
That's true, and we'll get into that in a minute.
But it is completely true that Trump's opinion on hydroxychloroquine matches exactly most of the doctors in the United States.
Let me ask you this.
Have you ever personally talked to a doctor who wouldn't prescribe this?
Right? Every one of you just said, yeah, there was that time I talked to a doctor.
No, he said he would prescribe it.
And then there was that other doctor.
Yeah, he said he would do it too.
I would be surprised if you could find one doctor in the United States who wouldn't give this a try, if it was available and it was the right kind of patient.
So I don't know if it's 100%, and I won't make that claim, but it's probably 90%.
How many doctors are there in the United States?
A lot of doctors in the United States.
How many of them would say the same thing?
So, yeah, Kaiser won't.
So if you have an organization, as opposed to a private practice, I can see that the organization wouldn't do it.
But I don't see that the doctor wouldn't do it.
And if you can find a doctor who would not prescribe this, I'd be interested in hearing their argument.
But... The point is that whether the doctors are right or wrong, there are probably at least 50,000 of them in the world who have exactly the same opinion as Trump does.
Here is the trick, or tricks, that CNN uses.
So when they talk about it to try to make it sound like Trump is an idiot and he's giving the wrong advice, the first thing they do is misdirection.
So they'll say, there were studies, but they were the wrong kind.
There were studies of people who were already near death, and they overdosed them with a dose that's, you know, way out of the normal range.
And sure enough, some of them were worse off, and none of them got any benefit that they could measure.
So this is the first trick.
If you say, hey, I think it might work, might work, don't know, they'll misdirect you to the studies that show that it's dangerous, but they're the wrong studies.
The whole point of this is to get it early, not to get it near death, Because the disease has two stages.
One is the infection part, which the hydroxychloroquine with the zinc might help with.
And then the second part is when your immune system goes crazy, and I don't know if anybody thinks it would help on that.
Second trick they use is weasel words.
I just saw this one today.
There is no evidence it works.
What's that mean? There's no evidence it works?
What did the 50,000 doctors look at to decide it might be worth trying?
Did they look at no evidence and then they said, well, there's no evidence so I think I'll give it a try?
Probably not. Because they all have access to the internet.
They probably at least googled it.
Don't you think? Do you think there's any doctor who didn't google this when this became a thing?
They probably googled it.
It probably popped up a whole bunch of studies that are not the gold standard kind.
They indicated that there was a mechanism that makes sense.
In other words, there's a cellular, biological reason that this should work or could work.
I'll say could, not should.
So that's evidence.
And there are lots of studies that seem to indicate that they're not quite as solid as they could be.
It's kind of evidencey.
But they say there's no evidence.
But what they're doing is the misdirection.
They're saying that these studies that are the wrong studies provided no evidence.
The other thing they do is the missing zinc.
They'll say, well, here's some studies of people who got it early for prevention.
Didn't help a bit. And they'll leave out the zinc, the active ingredient.
So, here's the part that's blowing my mind.
If we go back to the first whiteboard, and we see that the president is making sort of a judgment that's similar to doctors, which is a risk management decision, not a medical decision.
And when CNN tries to couch it as a medical decision, they're just lying to you, because it's not that.
It's a medical realm, but it's a risk management decision.
And Trump, being a business person, Sees risk management, apparently, similar to doctors who have to manage risk of this type all the time.
It's their main job. So these guys are completely compatible, and CNN isn't.
But here's the thing.
Suppose it works.
Suppose it works.
Or let's go the other way.
Let's say, suppose it doesn't work.
If it doesn't work, then nobody is really harmed.
People paid $20 for these cheap pills.
It didn't work. You haven't lost much, right?
So Trump has picked a risk management decision, similar to doctors, that says, worst case scenario, you're out $20.
Best case scenario, it saves you life.
It's a pretty easy decision, right?
If I said, you might die, but if you spend $20, you have a much better chance of living.
So you spend your $20.
Do you feel bad about it? No.
Nobody gets hurt. But what about the other way?
What if it works?
What if the graphs that I don't trust, to be accurate, are showing that the countries using hydroxychloroquine the most, presumably with zinc, I don't know, seems to show that they're getting better results?
What if they're right? Now, I don't trust any of that data, so I'm not on the team that says hydroxychloroquine and zinc work.
I'm on the team that says it might.
It might. And if it does work, CNN would be, and let's say the mainstream media, but CNN more than most of them, I think, would have directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
Tens of thousands of people will die if CNN is wrong.
If they're right, it's about the same as if Trump was wrong.
So they've chosen the risk management that would kill tens of thousands of innocent Americans just to screw Trump.
Think about that.
They have actually chosen consciously...
A decision that they're selling as Trump being incompatible with the science, when in fact he's 100% compatible with doctors, most of them.
They've sold that as the opposite, when in fact CNN is the one who's opposite of the doctors, completely opposite.
And they have made a decision that if they're right, nobody benefits.
But if they're wrong, They've killed tens of thousands of Americans.
Think about that.
And that's a choice that they made consciously.
That's not something that, you know, I made up out of nothing.
That's a conscious decision.
So when Trump calls CNN and the fake news the enemy of the people, the enemy of the people may have just killed 10,000 Americans.
Maybe. Just depends if it works or not.
So the point is not that they did or did not kill thousands of Americans.
The point is they made a decision which could only have that impact or not at all.
Only two choices. No impact or kills tens of thousands of people.
Trump and the doctors chose the opposite.
Either nothing happens or we save tens of thousands of lives.
To imagine that these are somehow similar opinions...
Of equal, let's say, credibility and of equal philosophical value, if you will, is crazy.
It's just crazy. So watching the fake news sell a version of reality that a lot of people are buying into.
Basically, everybody I know who watches CNN, they kind of believe this version of reality, and it's really, really dangerous.
So I just wanted to do a single topic periscope on that.
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