Episode 422 Scott Adams: I Predict That Fake News Will Destroy all Life on Earth. With Coffee

Episode 422 Scott Adams: I Predict That Fake News Will Destroy all Life on Earth. With Coffee

February 19, 2019

Episode 422 Scott Adams: I Predict That Fake News Will Destroy all Life on Earth. With Coffee

Topics:

Jussie Smollet story, is it a turning point in our view of reality?
- The news used to be regarded as 80% true, 20% false
- Now, it seems reversed, 20% true, 80% false
Review of current news stories…how many are fake news?
Are ANY of the things on current emergency list…emergencies?
- Everything already on the list is stretching the definition
Good persuasion on climate change
- Article author David Wallace Wells, very persuasive
- It’s WORSE than we think, and happening FASTER
- Immediacy is important, visual persuasion gold
- The article moves fear forward persuasively
- Permafrost is melting, it’s permafrost…and it’s melting
- Doomsday seed vault in the permafrost is in danger
- Ice shelf crack grew 11 miles in 6 days, good visual
- North Pole is 60 to 70 degrees warmer
- Is he correct? No idea. Is it persuasive? Yes
Bad persuasion on climate change
- Hockey stick graphs associated with business swindles
- In 80 years GDP will increase 10% less than it otherwise would

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