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What does Scott Adams think about negative news and mental health?
But weirdly, the worse the news was, the more likely somebody was going to click it. So we have this bad habit where we pursue things that make us feel bad, such as bad news. Do you know how you could have saved a little money on that study? That's right. You could have just asked Scott. Scott, does exposure to negative thoughts make you feel bad? Huh, let me think about this.
Yes, yes, pretty sure it does. So I'm glad we handled that. I've actually taken this to the next level, where do you have people in your life who will bring up the most darkest negative story of just some horrible thing happened to somebody or something you like? And do you ever just say, stop, stop?
they can't stop like they want to tell you that you know somebody beloved was had a railroad spike stuck through their head it's like your favorite person and you're just like stop stop and they go oh no i was just going to tell you about that no stop stop i know what you're going to do and when you tell me that it will only make me feel bad and there will be no positive outcome from this story so stop stop do not speak again
Well, but just the railroad spike. No, stop, stop, stop. Don't move your mouth. No, no more sounds. Stop. And then the railroad spike went through the head. For some reason, when somebody wants to tell you bad news, you can't stop them. I don't know if you've had that experience, but it doesn't matter who it is. You just can't stop them. Anyway, there's this
There's a report that China has developed a surgical cure for Alzheimer's. Now, I don't believe anything about this story. Now, it came from a source I'm not familiar with, so it doesn't come with automatic credibility from any source. But let me tell you what they say they've done. You tell me if you think this is likely to be true.
So apparently they've done 42 clinical trials and every one has been a success. And what they're doing is they're doing some surgery on your neck lymphatics. Now, of course, I understand medical technology deeply. So let me explain to you as it was written down in this report. It's a deep cervical lymphatic venous anastomosis surgery. And the way they do that is
What they do is they use super microsurgery technology to sort of shunt the lymphatic circulation in the meninges.
And then that will accelerate the return of the intracerebral lymph through the jugular foramen of the skull base and take away some of the metabolic products in the brain, thereby achieving the goal of possibly reversing the brain's degenerative lesions and slowing the progress of the disease.
Now, I know that you were thinking that's exactly what it did, so that was probably just review for a lot of you. But do you really think that China reversed Alzheimer's in 42 different trials in a row, and it's the first you're hearing about it? This doesn't even sound a little bit true, does it? I'd love to think it's true. So for a recreational belief, I'm going to say, sure, sure. Why not?
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