John Stossel on Odysee

The media publish scary story’s based on the United Nation’s impressive sounding, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… the I-P-C-C. I ask climate scientist Judith Curry what the UN group predicted, verse what really happened....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMLZJYx1Ls

A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed. Plants shut down, and people cheered.---------------------------------To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form---------------------------------NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo even bragged about shutting down a nuclear plant "14 years ahead of schedule." People applauded. “Why would they applaud?" asks Ray Rothrock, a former nuclear engineer who now invests in nuclear energy, "You got to be kidding me.” Rothrock advocates for nuclear power because he says it’s clean and reliable. He’s met with presidents to explain that. But nothing ever changed, until now. President Trump has ordered regulators to speed up approval of new nuclear plants. In the video above, we cover nuclear power’s comeback, how regulators nearly killed it, and debunk the activists’ ridiculous scares....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXCWMwlCPw

Psychologist Jordan Peterson tells me that identity politics, and looking at people as groups instead of individuals, leads to dangerous consequences....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcBVzH9fcg

Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, explains what the Second Amendment really means:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vz7-bZXzBQ

I'm told socialism is a working-class movement.In reality, its biggest promoters live lives of privilege!_ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _Political psychologist Rob Henderson has a name for this: a "luxury belief.”An idea that buys the wealthy status, while the poor pay the price.Take NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His socialist ideas make him popular, yet make life for everyday working people expensive.That doesn’t matter to him. He grew up rich!“He is the poster boy for luxury beliefs,” says Henderson, “He has a wealthy filmmaker mother, [and] an Ivy League professor father.”Mamdani is not unique among socialists.Congresswoman AOC, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and streamer Hasan Piker all have privileged lives.In the video above, Stossel TV Fellow Leyla Taghiyeva breaks down the examples, and why it’s a problem....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7n6injw8GI

Who owns you?Government often acts like they own us.But lawyer Tim Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute reminds us, we own ourselves.“People should not have power over other people’s lives,” says Sandefur.His book, You Don’t Own Me, talks about that, and how popular culture often reflects this message.“Ours is a nation where the individual’s right to pursue happiness is written into it’s foundational document” he reminds us.In this podcast, more on Sandefur’s book, libertarianism, Hollywood propaganda, and his fight against government overreach....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBL44Cgu0E

Will this be the fall of the American empire?Some headlines suggest that.But historian Johan Norberg says, “We can still save this golden age,” if we learn the lessons from past golden ages....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swSEWFW-spI

Want to win a million dollars? You might, maybe. First you take the Foundation for Economic Education’s @FEEonline quiz about affordability.@AndrewHeatonTPO explains:You can take the quiz at milliondollarquestion.org....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86F0-7cv_Co

Cars kill more than 100 people per day. The solution? Self-driving cars. They’re MUCH safer. But some politicians worry more about jobs than lives. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ Some people say self-driving cars will take taxi drivers’ jobs. “I cannot support something that is going to almost overnight lead to loss of jobs for … over 100,000 people,” says New York State Senator Luis Sepúlveda. But job changes aren’t necessarily bad. Adam Thierer of the R Street Institute explains, “Free markets … allow people to move into other jobs where they’re more highly paid…” Also, click-chasing news reports claim that self-driving cars aren’t safe. That’s not true. Data show they’re 10 times safer than human drivers! If politicians stop self-driving, more people will die. Full story in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRCbFG4e1g

In the movie “300," Hollywood portrays 300 Spartans holding off MILLIONS of Persians and saving Greece.But the Spartans actually failed. “Spartans are the most overrated warriors in history,” says Johan Norberg....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5Ea-mqX58

Many governments vow to eliminate fossil fuels AND eliminate poverty. Author Alex Epstein argues, poor people need fossil fuels the most....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYaXLj0bYtk

Activists in Seattle said app-based gig workers were being exploited. So politicians eagerly came to the rescue with a new $26 minimum wage. Did it work? No. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly videos from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ The politicians believed companies like Uber and Doordash make so much money they could eat the cost without raising prices. Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute explains why that’s not true. “Obviously, when you’re increasing cost to businesses, you’re going to increase cost to customers.” That’s exactly what happened. Prices went up, and many people stopped ordering delivery. DoorDash got 1.7 million fewer orders in 2024. Fewer orders meant less work and less pay for drivers. “A lot of politicians want to believe there's a free lunch,” says Glock. "The actual effect was ... to sabotage one of the most successful businesses in the city." Full story on how Seattle and New York City politicians hurt the gig economy in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWGiG5fkeA

Charles Murray explains why dads are crucial to young boys....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-QRRmRz0ho

Psychologist Jordan Peterson says “compassion is a vice.” What does that mean?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01fETTs85k

The FDA banned most peptides from being sold to consumers. So now people get them from China.------------------------To make sure you receive the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form————————————RFK Jr. takes them. One neuroscientist says they could "eradicate obesity" and boost energy and libido. But the FDA banned most of them. Dr. Anita Gupta sat on the advisory committee that recommended the ban. I ask her why doctors get to be the gatekeepers. “We can't undo an injection," she said. "There could be an immune response.” “Could” be. But the ban doesn’t stop people from using peptides. It just pushes them into a gray market. Now people buy peptides from China. How is that safer? In our video above we cover how the FDA’s “protection” also stops good drugs, and more about peptides....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXMsHm9EAbY

Lovers of big government trash capitalism. But James Lindsay points out that capitalism CREATES wealth. So why don’t they like it? "It requires people to be free,” explains Lindsay, “you can't control people who are free.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZQNlAx0QI

Trump pressured colleges to drop DEI departments. Some just renamed the departments. “'Diversity and Equity' becomes 'Belonging and Community',” says Heather Mac Donald. She explains how these DEI hurts students:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7RywbzNRs

The Justice Department has released new guidelines that find the EEOC’s use of “disparate impact” is unconstitutional.Good.Disparate impact is a woke legal doctrine that’s rewritten American standards:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34kFPU9e0k

Politicians always want to “improve” our economy.But again and again, they make things worse. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _“ The more we move away from free markets, the worse things become” says economist Don Boudreaux, author of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom."Boudreaux explains how government intervention made the Great Depression last longer, caused the Great Recession, and more.He also debunks myths like the "growing gap" between rich and poor:“If you look at the data, that growing gap isn’t growing. That gap is due to a statistical illusion.” In this full interview, we talk about “The Triumph of Economic Freedom" and debunk myths about poverty, AI taking jobs, and the dumb ways politicians claim to “improve" the economy....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOwIGHeSJtA

Dave Rubin says identity politics are unamerican. “The only thing there is,” he says, “is the individual.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDQA8Ahums

There's ENDLESS alarmism from the media and politicians about climate change. AOC shouts, "People are dying!!” But Judith Curry tells me, in reality climate-related deaths are FALLING. Falling by a lot, because of better technology....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsriPFQDIo

Four years ago, I reported on social worker Ursula Newell-Davis’s fight to help special needs kids. Louisiana's Health Department told her she couldn’t work because her business wasn’t needed. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _How does the government know if a business is needed? The market should decide.Bureaucrats say blocking businesses like hers helps “limit the burden on regulators." That’s absurd. “That’s just not a legitimate excuse that the government doesn’t have enough money to administer people’s constitutional rights.” says Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation. She’s helping Newell-Davis sue Louisiana.But It’s not just Louisiana--dozens of states have laws that force entrepreneurs to prove they’re needed. In this update video, I report on her fight, and the new way she found to help special needs kids, without government interference....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6KXckkU-0

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy.But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems.Hayek and Mises predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. They warned that centrally planned economies fail.But today, socialism is popular again. New York and Seattle have elected socialist mayors.Many politicians still believe that government can manage the economy—an idea popularized by economist John Maynard Keynes.Keynes was revered. Politicians love his arguments.But Hayek and Mises warned that government intervention leads to inflation, instability, and boom-bust cycles.They were right.In this podcast, Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute explains why we should read Hayek and Mises today....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNq9BvMYDHE

The surprising thing about history's "golden ages" is that they (so far) don't stay golden.Today the Muslim world isn't known for its prosperity. It's more known for poverty and oppression.But it was once "the leading civilization on the planet when it came to science, technology and freedom,” says historian Johan Norberg....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0sm00h2dI

“Freedom is not perfection,” says Gloria Alvarez....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDE8nkPKkpU

Ben Franklin warned: America has "a republic, if you can keep it." If!He wasn't sure the great experiment would last. I ask Stossel TV guests, how did we make it to 250 years? _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ Americans "went out into the untamed wilderness and established towns and cities that really didn't have to lean on a central government in order to function.” says Linnea Lueken of Heartland Institute. That self-reliance made America successful. Unfortunately, today, people say, “Problem? There ought to be a law!” But the more government “fixes” things, the more control politicians have over us, and the less freedom we have. That’s not what the founders wanted. What really makes America thrive? Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, Jennifer Grossman, Grover Norquist and others explain in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cjl8YIexgU

Would Sen Rand Paul support a vaccine mandate if airborne Ebola was spreading in America?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkDuSMDL_I

Socialism always destroys! Why do people keep trying it? Gloria Alvarez explains....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_sdCNcRr8

Fearmongering media say climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.” Climate change is real, but is it the apocalypse? Climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr. doesn’t think so. But just expressing skepticism got him attacked by our government. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form _ _ _ _ _ _ Al Gore blamed extreme weather on climate change. “Every storm is different now because it takes place in a warmer and wetter world.” But that isn’t true.Roger Pielke Jr explains: "we haven’t observed changes in the frequency or intensity (of storms) that are beyond natural variability." Pielke says it’s more complicated: “The increasing impacts of extreme weather…are due to what we build, where we build, how much wealth we have in harm’s way.” In other words, weather costs more because people build more expensive properties in risky places. His research won awards and is cited by the U.N. climate committee. Still, activists hate it. A congressman investigated him, and the University of Colorado shut down his research center. Pielke didn’t back down. Now, the American Enterprise Institute supports his work. “You can’t be cancelled," says Pielke. "You can let them cancel you, but you can’t be cancelled.” His full story in the video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fyFbPWpZzs

Charles Murray says the elite "have abdicated their role as stewards of the culture.”I ask what he means:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJWtPKAXZk

In Canada, politicians want to punish “hate” speech with a jail sentence as long as life in prison! Journalist Ezra Levant explains why that’s a BAD idea:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8KQyz7KbTA

62% of American young adults favor socialism.But that’s just ignorant.Capitalism is the only system that creates better lives for more people!_ _ _ _ _ _To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, “Capitalism, at its core, is the absolute pursuit of profit… That is not a redeemable system."Yes, capitalism can be ugly, selfish, and sometimes ruthless. But nothing else works.Under capitalism, you can only get rich by creating useful things for everyone else.The economically ignorant don't understand that.They say, “We have a finite amount of money. Jeff Bezos has $100 billion. His wealth is making a lot of people poorer.”So if someone has millions, the rest of us have millions less.But there ISN'T a finite amount of money. Trade CREATES wealth.In my video above we debunk more of the socialists' economically ignorant ideas....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExwihnFmvM

Socialism creates chaos. It’s why people want to escape it. Gloria Alvarez knows....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p6gudVPi90

Fossil fuels are…moral?Yes, says Alex Epstein, because “3 billion people...use less electricity than a refrigerator." To let them to have a modern life, "that's going to depend on fossil fuels.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjBbxJfxZ3Q

A few moments with Ted Turner, discussing charity and greed. Later he took me to lunch at his buffalo meat restaurant.I liked him. He was a refreshingly open billionaire and a remarkable innovator....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1SZtBcyzo

Activists are angry about data centers. They call them “uniquely evil.” One activist even shot a politician’s house 13 times.Why the hate?Because Data centers use lots of water and electricity. But we need them! They store and process everything we do online._ _ _ _ _ _To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _There’s more demand for data centers now as more people use AI.Activists complain they “use resources like a madman.”"They are resource-intensive, but so are most productive things we’ve done in human history,” argues Paige Lambermont of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. People worry about increased electricity costs. But so far, research shows data centers haven’t caused significant price increases “Prices in Virginia are rising more slowly than they are some other places,” says Lambermont, "even though…more data centers are in northern Virginia than anywhere else.”So why is electricity so expensive? Because of government, not data centers. See why in my video above....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUgooIHuDC8

“I'm going to speak the truth here, and this is not pleasant for people to hear.” In my podcast with author Heather Mac Donald, she says uncomfortable things about race, crime, feminism and more.For example, she says, “The reality of our world today is not white privilege. It's black privilege.” She says many jobs and colleges today unfairly favor black candidates with fewer skills. “Harvard until recently had about 16% blacks in its freshman class,” says Mac Donald, “If it admitted based on academic merit, there would be less than 1%.” She’s been repeatedly called “‘racist’ for saying things like that. “Am I a racist for bringing this up? I am not!” responds Mac Donald, “The facts are the facts … They have been completely kept out of the public eye to keep this systemic lie of racism going on.” In this podcast, more facts you won’t hear covered by mainstream media....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-6MtKylZM

A law in Scotland threatens you with seven years in JAIL if you misgender someone. GLAD JK Rowling calls this a threat to free speech. Here is how she protested:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuaoIuF0XRw

It’s upsetting so many kids love socialism. Gloria Alvarez is socialism’s worst nightmare....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF48lUBoz-g

The West is blamed for oppression, racism, inequity… That’s “so blind to the reality of history!” says author Heather Mac Donald. The West also brought the rule of law, science, engineering, and more:...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOh--_3iow8

Nicotine pouches, like Zyn, are safer than smoking. But now, politicians want to restrict the pouches. Here's why that's a problem._ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ Some states ban flavored nicotine pouches. Others slap big taxes on them. Some as high as 95% That doesn’t protect people. That's keeps more people smoking. Because: “If you make the safer alternative more expensive," Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation explains, "more cigarettes will be sold.” Politicians say they’re doing this for the kids! “Pouches seem to lock their sights on young kids!” warns Senator Chuck Schumer. “The governor is a grandmother!" proclaim bureaucrats in my state. "She cares about the health of our children.” “Please,” responds Bentley, “Almost no kids are using these products.” Only 0.6% of high schoolers use them regularly. “It's adults who were buying the stuff?” I ask. “It is,” explains Bentley, “More than seven million American adults are using nicotine pouches … And that's a good thing, not a bad thing.” It is. My video above explains why, and how the “just-ban-things” crowd create more problems: like black markets and crime....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBOgQIU8ws

“You don’t forget how to be an architect when you move from California to Arizona” says attorney Tim Sandefur, mocking laws forcing people to get a new license when they move to a new state....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VgLTqKp4dk

Malaria kills lots of people. Bjorn Lomborg, author of “Best Things First, " has a relatively cheap plan to save 260,000 people from this disease every year....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJx_I623C8M

When there’s a problem, politicians always have “solutions.” History shows those “solutions” often make things worse. _ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ We’re told FDR and his New Deal saved America from the Great Depression. Economist Donald J. Boudreaux, author of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom,” says that’s a myth: “He created government programs all right, but they did not pull us out of the Depression.” When farmers complained about low prices, government paid farmers to destroy their crops. “People can't eat prices. They have to eat food!” says Boudreaux. 70 years later, during the Great Recession, politicians again blamed free markets and pushed more government “solutions.” Boudreaux says that’s why both downturns lasted so long....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URAJzjy6sU

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Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg said that we could help the world’s poor much more if we didn’t waste trillions pretending to fight climate change....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwsCOTiA4I

Day care costs are rising, and government promises they’ll fix it!But when government “fixes" something, that means more rules._ _ _ _ _ _To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ “Government rules have unintended consequences,” says Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women’s Forum. Consequences like fewer day care centers and higher prices.Government rules also make lower-cost options like in-home day care centers hard to start, even though parents want them."They are layering on regulations that make it impossible," explains Lukas.Oklahoma’s day care rules are 180 pages. Illinois gives conflicting commands: require a blanket for each infant, but then, they also prohibit use of “soft bedding."Why would you open a place if you have to understand all of that, let alone obey it? I wouldn’t.“Every time you have to figure out another rule to comply with, it’s another reason not to do it,” says Lukas. In the video above, I look at how bureaucrats’ well-intended rules make day care centers hard to start and afford....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-179wCFgkX8

Climate researcher Judith Curry says climate scientists have a reason to exaggerate risk.What’s in it for them?“Fame and fortune,” Curry tells me.Curry has inside info about how “the science” has been hijacked....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWoxoVWw9FY

Popular podcaster Dave Rubin started out on the left … politically. Rubin explains how he “woke up.”...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpzj1ai690

"Tax the rich!" is popular. But don't politicians realize, in America, people can MOVE?_ _ _ _ _ _ To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe-form_ _ _ _ _ _ Washington state just passed a "millionaires' tax." Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz already announced his move to Florida. You'd think politicians would learn, but no. California politicians now want an extra 5% tax on billionaires' wealth. “The benefit,” say activists, “is going to outweigh a couple people moving out of the state.” But California has already lost billions in taxes because so many people (and companies) left. If they pass their new tax, they'll lose more. “When people are not well treated, they’re gonna’ go elsewhere” argues Steve Forbes. I push back: "You're just a rich guy who wants to protect his stuff." "I may have done well in life," says Forbes, "But what I want is a world in which … ALL people have a chance to improve their lot in life." The video above explains why taxing the rich makes life harder for everyone, even the poor....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_U6_8Cm4_g