Scott Adams: In his own words
I recently tweeted a link to my blog post that is unflattering to the proponents of climate science. I have 138,000 Twitter followers. My traffic from Twitter to my blog in a recent minute was only 14 people, while overall traffic from other sources was its usual robust self. For non-controversial topics, my…
Read MoreHere is the best (and weirdest) example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. The set-up is that Bill Nye, an engineer by training, and a proponent of science, is defending climate science on Tucker’s show. The first weird thing is that Bill Nye starts by talking about cognitive dissonance…
Read MoreWay back in olden times when there were only a few television channels, I enjoyed watching television. I was happy with it most of the time. But in recent years, my television has trained me to stop watching it. My cable company now offers hundreds of options. That means I…
Read MoreToday I declare the climate science “debate” to be mostly an illusion. You think you live in a world in which there are climate science skeptics on one side of the debate, and climate scientists, plus their believers, on the other side. And you think they are talking about the same thing. That…
Read MoreNote: This is not investment advice. Never take investment advice from cartoonists. I have been following the story of Snapchat’s upcoming IPO [archive]. Experts say it will be one of the biggest IPOs of all time. But it also might be one of the biggest scams you will ever see in the investment…
Read MorePeople have been asking me for a list of my non-Dilbert books. [link to WhenHub which no longer exists]
Read MoreI can’t tell if this secret video [no longer available] is real, but it purports to show a scientist proposing to develop a military-grade virus that would eliminate extreme religious thoughts in people as a way to end terrorism. The scary part is that it would probably work. We know which parts…
Read MorePresident Obama’s presidency did a lot to diminish racial bias simply because he was a black president who – in the opinion of many, including me – did a good job. As a role model, he was exceptional. But all the factors that made him a great role model are…
Read MoreYou can see me discussing Trump’s puzzling comments about Sweden in this Youtube video [no longer available]. I don’t have the technology all worked out yet (it’s a system, not a goal) but you’ll get my point. This is the direction I’m heading for 2017. Short Youtube videos on recent events….
Read MoreMy BMW X5 SUV is in the shop for its third leak-related problem this year. While it was there, and by coincidence, the dealership’s used car manager called and offered to buy it because there is demand for that model in the used market. I told him it was already…
Read MoreI think we can all agree that there has been plenty of fake news coming from both sides. Fake news is usually intentional, although in some cases it is the result of honest mistakes. But lately we are seeing an entirely new type of untrue news. I call it Imaginary…
Read MoreSteve Jobs. Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. Richard Branson. What do they all have in common, aside from wealth? They all succeeded without the right kind of prior experience. Apparently they knew how to figure out what they needed once they started. I’ll bet they are all systems-thinkers, not goal-thinkers. If…
Read MoreAn interesting article in The Atlantic talks about studies showing that liberals think in terms of fairness while conservatives think in terms of morality. So if you want to persuade someone on the other team, you need to speak in their language. We almost never do that. That’s why you rarely see…
Read MoreI have been saying since Trump’s election that the world has split into two realities – or as I prefer to say, two movies on one screen – and most of us don’t realize it. We’re all looking at the same events and interpreting them wildly differently. That’s how cognitive…
Read MoreOne of the most famous statistics in the world of politics is the claim that 97% of climate scientists agree with the idea that humans activity is boosting CO2 to dangerous levels. Critics say the 97% is misleading, because the critics like to include in their own list the scientists…
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