I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026

Andrew Farago

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Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, [...] passed away on Jan. 13, 2026, at the age of 68 after a yearlong battle with prostate cancer. [T]he late cartoonist expressed gratitude [...] "I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had. If you got any benefits from my life, I ask you pay it forward as best you can."

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Adams spoke candidly about [...] cartooning, office culture, and popular entertainment, and [...] his [...] “Libertarian leanings” [...] Controversial [...] comments were framed as “thought experiments” [...] Adams offered dating advice that included “pickup artist” techniques [...] He had been happily married since 2006, after all, and was a devoted stepfather to two children, so how much of a jerk could he really be? 

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Scott Adams made headlines once again in May 2025, [...] with the revelation that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer that had spread to his bones [...] [so] that he could no longer walk unassisted. [...] [H]e had declined [...] treatments for prostate cancer and had instead opted for alternative methods including the anti-parasitic medication fenbendazole and horse dewormer ivermectin.

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In early November [...] the cancer [was] spreading unchecked throughout his bones and the rest of his body, leaving him bedridden and in constant pain. He appealed to [...] [RFK] Jr. [...] asking him to intervene on his behalf [...] with the FDA-approved cancer drug Pluvicto [...]

[M]essages [...] make it unclear if his medical team was able to provide Pluvicto or if [it] would have provided any relief for his advanced condition, which had left him paralyzed from the waist down. He marked the new year [...] informing his audience “[...] The odds of me recovering are essentially zero. [...]” Just over a week later, he entered hospice care at his Pleasanton, California home, and passed away on January 13.