# Scott Adams says he is dying {Died January 13th, 2026 at age 68} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677 "2025-05-22T18:14:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/222 "2026-01-13T18:45:31Z")
Here’s an example of something offensive that Card has said: > **[Ender's Game writer compares Obama to hitler](https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/enders-game-writer-orson-scott-card-in-new-obama-rant-114702955.html)** > > Could Orson Scott Card scupper the chances of the movie with his outspoken views? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/223 "2026-01-13T18:54:34Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Here’s an example of something offensive that Card has said: Please don’t mistake my comment as an endorsement of Card’s vile views. He’s disgusting, as was Adams. It’s just sad when any creep shows a fleeting glimmer of humanity - makes me think, “Why couldn’t you channel this momentary act of decency to become a compassionate human being with good values, instead of being the snake that you are?” ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/224 "2026-01-13T18:54:37Z")
Is it irony if you take Ivermectin for your cancer, which cures your worms, then you die of cancer and are, again, riddled with worms, or nah? ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/225 "2026-01-13T18:57:58Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Here’s an example of something offensive that Card has said: > > [Your privacy choices](https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/enders-game-writer-orson-scott-card-in-new-obama-rant-114702955.html) I read many of Orson Scott Card’s books in college, including _Ender’s Game_ and its sequels, followed by several books in his _Alvin Maker_ series. I drifted away from reading any more his books after I became aware that he had become a RWNJ. Which is a shame…like discovering a family member has succumbed to nutjobbery. From the linked article: > [@](#): > > He also criticised Obama’s plan for a ‘national police force’ in the piece, writing: “Barack Obama needs to have a source of military power that is under his direct control. Like Hitler, he needs a powerful domestic army to terrify any opposition that might arise.” It’s never fails to amaze me that the right wing inevitably actually does the very thing they accuse the left of planning. Change “Obama” in his quote to “Trump”, and how is ICE not the encapsulation of his supposed fear? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/226 "2026-01-13T18:59:28Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Please don’t mistake my comment as an endorsement of Card’s vile views. I wasn’t. I just did some searching for other things that Card has said. I was very surprised that he would say what it says in the link that I give. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/227 "2026-01-13T19:03:58Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > (An aside: I feel kind of the same about Orson Scott Card, who is a right-wing jerk. I never interacted with him, but his earliest books have a kind of earnest niceness that makes me sad he’s got such dreadful views.) I met Card when I was in Salt Lake City. He was hosting the Science Fiction Festival at the (now sadly departed) Hansen Planetarium and I was attending with another fan. During a break I was reading one of my stories to her in the planetarium library, and he came over and critiqued my story (in a nice way). He seemed genuinely “earnestly nice”, as you put it. I haven’t kept up with his doings, so I was unaware of his going over to the Dark Side of the Force. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/228 "2026-01-13T19:04:18Z")
> [@robby](#): > > It’s never fails to amaze me that the right wing inevitably actually does the very thing they accuse the left of planning. Change “Obama” in his quote to “Trump”, and how is ICE not the encapsulation of his supposed fear? Ain’t projection great? It would be amusing to confront him with his prediction that Obama would never relinquish power, just someone arrange for Michelle to be his successor. Hey Orson, how’d that play out, again? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/229 "2026-01-13T21:28:27Z")
At least he finally got away from black people. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/230 "2026-01-13T21:47:10Z")
That depends on the layout of Hell, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/231 "2026-01-13T22:04:52Z")
I imagine that each person in hell gets to be with the other denizens he least wants to be with. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/232 "2026-01-13T22:09:26Z")
But what if there are no black, jewish, homosexual, liberal women in hell? Does he get out scott (no pun intended) free? Or does he at least become someone else’s punishment? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/233 "2026-01-13T22:11:07Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I imagine that each person in hell gets to be with the other denizens he least wants to be with. I was about to say “that’s no fair to them” but then I realized - it’s hell! Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/234 "2026-01-13T22:32:03Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I was about to say “that’s no fair to them” but then I realized - it’s hell! Perfect. Sartre already knew: hell is other people. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/235 "2026-01-13T22:55:27Z")
More likely he’d run into Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light in Heck. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/236 "2026-01-13T23:35:31Z")
For a quarter century, Scott Adams defined workplace humor, and if he had died around 15 years ago, his work would have remained popular long afterward. Unfortunately, because he either started saying the quiet out loud or MAGA-induced mental illness set in, he had time to trash his legacy, set it on fire, and flush it down the toilet, resulting in Adams and Dilbert being memory-holed (i.e., Dilholed). ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/237 "2026-01-13T23:38:17Z")
Aside from being a disgusting MAGA piece of shit, he led one of my best friends down the Trump rabbit hole. Fuck him forever for destroying that friendship. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/238 "2026-01-13T23:39:45Z")
I don’t care about Scott Adams. His comics never really grabbed me. (I was more into The Far Side and Life in Hell and Tom the Dancing Bug.) But this tweet fromScott Adams showed up on my FB feed: > I wonder if BLM knows Antifa was allied with Hitler and helped him come to power. It feels as if that would be a source of tension, given BLM’s focus on history. Does Antifa owe reparations to anyone who lost a family member or property to Nazi Germany? Wow. ANTIFA was a fascist ally? Really? 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/239 "2026-01-14T00:35:59Z")
As a believer myself, only God knows what was in his heart when he passed. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/240 "2026-01-14T00:40:08Z")
My wife and I both greatly enjoyed Dilbert. There’s only so far you can go in terms of separating the art from the artist. Now, if exposed to any old Dilbert cartoon, I’ll be looking for subtle hints of his racism. Kind of like reading H.P. Lovecraft. BTW, I also liked “Candorville”. Maybe there’s something with the whole cartoonist subset of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/241 "2026-01-14T01:11:38Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Kind of like reading H.P. Lovecraft. At least Lovecraft realized later in life that his youthful xenophobia was misguided. Adams went to the grave a hateful little goblin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=13)