Episode 1076 Scott Adams: Trump is Medically Correct and CNN Might Be Killing Tens-of-Thousands

Date: 2020-07-30 | Duration: 12:28

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• HCQ is a risk management decision

• Whiteboard1: HCQ + Zinc + Azithromycin

• Whiteboard2: CNN HCQ Fake News

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all right 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 the anti-trump folks are doing and i just want to unr unravel the trick so you can watch it in real time and um here's the setup
so the the idea that that uh dr zulenko i think was the first to come up with is that the treatment of these with these three uh medicines in combination might work for um coronavirus and covent now the first thing you need to know is that the whole point of it is that the hydroxychloroquine is delivering the

[1:06]

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 you know important or not it's not clear but let's look at what the doctors think versus what trump thinks and compared 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 would first of all would you agree that that's probably somewhere in the neighborhood 50 000 doctors if you if you look at the entire world now i based that on the fact that i have personally talked to several doctors who say that 95
95 of all the the other doctors they know are using it prophylactically or or prescribing it so would you agree that there's some tens of thousands i'm just going to use 50 000

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thousands i'm just going to use 50 000 just to make the case it might be a hundred thousand might be ten thousand 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 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 the trump is exactly compatible with ten thousand fifty thousand hundred thousand doctors now what does cnn say about this they say
say it's dangerous it doesn't work and the trials prove it is ineffective and then they tell you that trump is

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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 the 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 you know 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 um 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

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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 percent 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 you if you have an
an organization as opposed to a private practice i could 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 the cnn uses

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or tricks the cnn uses so when they talk about it to try to make it sound like trump is an idiot and uh 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
you to the studies they 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 which the hydroxyl chloroquine 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

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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 you know a cellular biological reason that this should work or could work i'll say could not should so that's evidence right and there are lots of studies that seem to indicate but they're not quite as solid as they could be it's kind of

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solid as they could be it's kind of evidency but they say there's no evidence but what they're doing is the misdirection they're saying that these 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 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 it's a medical realm but it's a risk management decision and trump being a business person sees

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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
way let's say suppose it doesn't work if it doesn't work then nobody is really harmed people paid twenty dollars for these cheap pills it didn't work you're not 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 bucks best case scenario saves your life it's pretty easy decision right if i said you might die but if you spend 20 dollars you have a much better chance of living so you spend your twenty dollars do you feel bad about it no nobody gets hurt but what about the

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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 result what if they're right now i don't trust any of that data so i'm 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

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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 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

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the enemy of the people the enemy of the people may have just killed ten thousand 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 of equal let's say credibility and of equal philosophical value if you will is crazy it's just crazy so the watching 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

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and it's really really dangerous so i just wanted to do a single topic periscope on that and that's all