Scott Adams made Trump plausible before anyone else would



On the timeline of making America great again, two dates in 2015 stand out for anyone who backed Donald Trump before it was safe to do so.

On June 16, 2015, Trump came down the escalator in New York City and announced his run for president. The political class laughed. Conservative pundits mocked him. Commentators treated the whole thing as a stunt. A lifelong Democrat running as a Republican? A celebrity billionaire developer? Please. What a “clown.”

Scott understood something most people never learn: Bad reviews from bad people are good reviews. He also understood how to grieve with honor instead of self-pity.

Then came August 13, 2015.

That day, Scott Adams — the creator of “Dilbert” and a best-selling personal development author — published a blog post that reframed the entire race in a single phrase:

Usual frame:
Donald Trump is a clown.
Reframe:
Donald Trump is a clown genius.

That was Adams’ title: “Clown Genius.” And his point was simple: Trump wasn’t improvising. He was persuading. Adams wrote that Trump’s “value proposition” was to “Make America Great,” which meant selling the world on America again — what Adams called “good brand management.”

It sounds obvious now. It didn’t sound obvious then.

Adams became one of the first major nonpolitical public figures to say out loud what millions of Americans were starting to suspect: Trump wasn’t a joke. The joke was the people pretending they couldn’t see what was happening.

“Clown Genius” by Scott Adams, accessed via the Internet Archive

That post didn’t just defend Trump. It gave people permission. It gave tens of millions of everyday Americans cover to voice support for the one candidate the establishment of both parties hated more than anyone they had seen in decades. Adams called it before the polls did, and he kept calling it.

And, in the process, he helped change the course of human history.

He later packaged Trump’s persuasion methods into a book-length case study, “Win Bigly.” And famously, he assigned Trump a 98% chance of winning in 2016 — at a time when most of the media treated the idea as laughable.

Adams paid for that courage.

When he backed Trump in 2015, he didn’t just lose polite invitations. He lit his career on fire. He traded lavish speaking fees, safe corporate fame, and establishment approval for permanent exile from respectable opinion.

In October 2025, Adams described the price in stark terms:

When I decided ... to back Trump … I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my social life. I sacrificed my career. I sacrificed my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And I did that because I believed it was worth it. … I’m really happy I lived long enough to see it. It was worth it. … It was worth it to be right.

Independent journalist and filmmaker Mike Cernovich made the point even more bluntly. Adams could have kept quiet, kept the corporate speaking gigs, and died richer. Instead, he chose the lonely road and earned something bigger than money. He became a legend.

For millions, Scott Adams was more than a cartoonist or a commentator. Worldwide, listeners of Scott’s daily show, “Coffee with Scott Adams,”knew him as our “internet dad.” If Trump is the father of MAGA, Scott is its honorary stepfather.

People didn’t just read him. They listened to him. They learned from him. They built confidence from his willingness to say what others wouldn’t.

President Trump made America great again. Scott Adams made Candidate Trump plausible in the first place.

After a long, public battle with prostate cancer, Scott Adams died on Tuesday, January 13. He was 68.

President Trump responded with a tribute that said more than many will admit.

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“Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!”

I’m one of those listeners and friends. More than that, I was Scott’s editor, and I remain the publisher of the Scott Adams library. He brought me on as a contributing editor for “Reframe Your Brain,” a book that has helped thousands of readers apply his signature “reframes” to work, money, relationships, and even faith.

As of this writing, “Reframe Your Brain” is the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon.

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Near the end of his life, Scott also made a quiet but meaningful choice. He accepted Pascal’s Wager — the simple risk-reward logic that faith in Jesus Christ is worth the bet. He pinned that profession to the top of his X.com profile in his final statement.

Scott was a father figure to me in the most practical sense. I asked his advice the way a son asks his dad. He was happy to oblige. That’s who he was: sharp, funny, and eager to be useful.

Now critics will rush in to re-litigate his controversies, including the 2023 livestream that helped get “Dilbert” pulled from newspapers. I wrote the truth for Newsweek at the time, after his remarks triggered an organized effort to kill his book deal and erase him from public life.

I worked with an author on a not-quite-banned book recently. Dilbert creator and bestselling author Scott Adams had his long-running comic strip ended by multiple newspapers and his forthcoming book contract canceled over some hyperbolic remarks on race that were intended to stir up discussion. Scott Adams’ books were twice banned, but Amazon reversed the decision. … Adams then went to his audience and let them know that there were people who didn’t want his book published, and they responded by buying it, en masse. Sales shot up.

Scott understood something most people never learn: Bad reviews from bad people are good reviews.

He also understood how to grieve with honor instead of self-pity. As he wrote in “Reframe Your Brain”:

When you experience the death of a loved one, your instincts push you into feeling tragedy, loss, and pain. Once you have had enough of that, and when you are ready, start tossing these five words around to release some of the pain: Gratitude. Respect. Honor. Privilege. Service.

Scott Adams lived those words. And now he belongs to the ages.

Scott won bigly.

Thank you, Scott.

Glenn Beck remembers Scott Adams: 'A philosopher disguised as a stick-figure artist'



After a hard-fought battle with cancer, the beloved “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams has passed away — and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is devastated.

“We pause for a minute. Not for a punch line,” Glenn begins solemnly.

“We pause for a man who quietly became something far more important than most people ever realized. Scott Adams, for most of his life, was just a cartoonist. As if just a cartoonist is a small thing. He was a cartoonist that connected with us because there was so much wisdom in that little man, that everyman,” he says.

“He was a guy we all loved. After you heard his political views, I’m sure half of the country did not love him. But he became a guiding light for so many people who are just willing to think honestly,” he continues.


“You didn’t have to agree with him. He just asked you to think. He became a mentor in a way to so many people just trying to understand how influence really works. He was a guy who was changing his life, and he would mentor us through our lives by watching how he was dealing with things. He really was a philosopher who was disguised as a stick-figure artist.”

And he was a man who found the courage to convert to Christianity in his final moments.

“You’re going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert. So I still have time, but my understanding is you’re never too late. And on top of that, any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven,” Adams said in a video he recorded before his passing.

“And so to my Christian friends, yes, it’s coming. So you don’t need to talk me into it. I am now convinced that the risk-reward is completely smart. If it turns out that there’s nothing there, I’ve lost nothing. But I’ve respected your wishes, and I like doing that. If it turns out there is something there and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win,” he continued.

“So with your permission, I promise you that I will convert,” he added.

“I love that,” Glenn says, “because even there he’s being honest.”

“But while Scott said that lightly, I doubt he took that lightly,” he says. “He was a deep thinker.”

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Beloved 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at age 68



Scott Adams, creator of the iconic "Dilbert" comic strip and ardent Trump supporter, has passed away at the age of 68.

Adams passed away Tuesday morning after a battle with prostate cancer.

'You should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other.'

Scott Adams announced his cancer diagnosis on his "Coffee with Scott Adams" show last May.

On the January 1 episode of his show, Adams suggested that his health was declining rapidly. His death was preceded by a visit to the hospital with issues like lower-body paralysis.

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“I talked to my radiologist yesterday … and it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t,” Adams said on Jan. 1. “So there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs. And I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day.”

“But at the moment I can breathe, and I’m not in any pain,” he continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other.”

On Monday, Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California. His first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, told TMZ that Adams began receiving "end-of-life care" last week because his health was declining "rapidly."

Adams is best known for the cartoon "Dilbert," which first debuted in 1989.

His death was announced on the Tuesday episode of "Coffee with Scott Adams," which can be viewed below:

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Cancer care is becoming another Wall Street extraction industry



Across rural America, families are learning a hard lesson. The biggest threat to their local hospital or cancer clinic no longer comes from distance, workforce shortages, or regulation. It comes from private equity.

Over the past two decades, private equity firms have quietly bought hundreds of cancer clinics, oncology practices, and community hospitals. They promise efficiency and stability. Many communities experience something else: consolidation, higher costs, fewer doctors, and the slow erosion of care. When profit targets fall short, clinics close. Patients travel hours for treatment — or go without it altogether.

The same forces that hollowed out manufacturing towns and family farms are now targeting essential health care.

This shift reflects a deeper failure: treating health care as a financial asset rather than a public obligation.

Private equity follows a familiar playbook. Firms acquire medical practices with borrowed money, cut staffing, increase billing, extract profits, and sell within a few years. That model rewards investors. It fails patients who need long-term care and towns that depend on a single hospital or cancer center.

The collapse of 21st-century oncology shows how destructive this approach can be. After private equity took control, the company expanded rapidly across the Southeast while piling on debt. Pressure to generate revenue intensified. Federal investigators later uncovered widespread abuse, including unnecessary testing and illegal billing. The company paid more than $86 million in fraud settlements to the federal government and patients before filing for bankruptcy.

Entire regions lost access to cancer care with little warning. Investors exited. Patients were left to deal with the fallout.

Rural communities suffer the most. In cities, the loss of a clinic often means longer wait times. In rural America, it can mean the end of cancer care entirely. Patients face long drives, delayed treatment, or impossible choices between health and family obligations.

The same pattern appears in rural hospitals owned by Apollo Global Management through its control of LifePoint Health. After the acquisition, hospitals took on heavy debt. Executives sold real estate to raise cash, cut staffing, reduced services, and closed cancer centers. In New Mexico, state officials opened an investigation after reports that an Apollo-owned hospital denied or delayed cancer care for low-income patients.

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Defenders of private equity claim these firms rescue independent practices from hospital monopolies. In reality, they replace local control with corporate control.

Doctors lose authority to distant executives who never set foot in the affected communities. The language of independence disguises a transfer of power away from patients and physicians and toward investors.

Conservatives should recognize this for what it is. An elite financial class is extracting wealth from essential local institutions and leaving weaker communities behind. The same forces that hollowed out manufacturing towns and family farms are now targeting essential health care.

Cancer care should not function as a short-term investment. Rural hospitals should not exist to satisfy quarterly return targets. A system that allows this will continue to fail the people who rely on it most.

The answer is accountability, not a government takeover of medicine. Regulators must enforce antitrust laws. Policymakers should strengthen protections that preserve medical judgment from corporate interference. Communities deserve transparency about who owns their hospitals and who controls decisions about their care.

Health care depends on trust and continuity. When financialization dominates cancer care, rural Americans lose both. And once these institutions disappear, rebuilding them proves far harder than protecting them in the first place.

'It's a death sentence': Former Republican senator reveals tragic cancer diagnosis



Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced his terminal diagnosis on Tuesday.

The tragic news was shared in a post on X, where Sasse conceded that he is "gonna die." Sasse revealed his diagnosis is metastasized stage-four pancreatic cancer, but in the same breath proclaimed his deep faith and hope in Christ.

'The process of dying is still something to be lived.'

"This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die," Sasse wrote. "Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do."

"I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers," Sasse added. "As one of them put it, 'Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock.' Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

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In the message, Sasse reflected on his many personal and professional accomplishments throughout his 53 years of life, expressing deep gratitude and admiration for his family. Sasse also wrote about the difficulty of navigating tragedy during Christmas, which he described as "a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come."

"Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in)," Sasse said.

"Nope — often we lazily say 'hope' when what we mean is 'optimism.' To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son."

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In addition to leaning on God and his family, Sasse said he will pursue medical intervention.

"Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived," Sasse said. "We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape."

"But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: 'The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. ... For to us a son is given (Isaiah 9)."

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Poisoned patriots: The Camp Lejeune tragedy the government ignored



Camp Lejeune was a Marine Corps base in North Carolina where Virginia Robinson dedicated 25 years of her life to working and raising her family — unaware that they were drinking, bathing, and living with poisoned water the entire time.

But the government knew, and despite the sickness that plagued the inhabitants, they never told them.

“I had three cancers I was fighting at one time,” Robinson tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on “Back to the People.”

Robinson not only had three cancers at the same time, but she also survived leukemia, colon cancer while pregnant, and two separate diagnoses of breast cancer. And she wasn’t the only one in her family affected.


Her husband passed away in 2014, her daughter followed shortly after, and her father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Another daughter of hers was born with a spinal tumor and died young from bladder cancer.

All of them were exposed to Camp Lejeune’s water.

“What kind of levels of toxicity were in the water? Was it trace amounts or were there periods where there were large dumps and increases of contamination?” Shanahan asks.

“There was dumping involved, because there’s some videos. I don’t know where they’re at. My brother told me about them because he’s been doing a lot of research about this, and he said there was sites where there was trucks going on base and dumping from the laundromat,” Robinson explains.

“We’re talking about levels, Nicole, that are 10 times, 30 times, 50 times, 150 times EPA limits. We’re not talking about trace amounts of these chemicals. We’re talking about, as you would expect, the kind of amounts that are causing way elevated risks of a whole host of conditions,” she continues.

And unfortunately, when Robinson has gone to the government for help, it has turned her away.

“I have no doubt that they caused your cancer, your pain and suffering, the deaths, just horrific lives, right? Because they’ve done it to millions of Americans through faulty vaccines,” Shanahan says, adding, “I don’t know if there is justice in this country or we have a real justice system.”

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The fruit of the US pesticide industry is poison



If you've ever been apple picking, you know how homely apples right off the tree can look. A far cry from the beautiful specimens we've come to expect from the supermarket: smooth, unblemished, blood-red.

But this cosmetic perfection comes at a price. It relies on pesticides that poison our soil, our water and our bodies.

Farmers themselves are the first casualties. Studies show they face elevated rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, gliomas, leukemia, and melanoma.

Pointing this out shouldn't be a radical position, but it is. Must we take to the trees like Julia Butterfly Hill just to demand food that won't sicken us and degrade the environment? It’s unfortunate that we’ve come to a place where commonsense stewardship of nature requires the constitution of an eco-activist.

In denial

Part of the problem is denial. The Environmental Protection Agency already has the authority to regulate the sale, distribution, and use of pesticides under the 1947 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

Great, I guess. And yet, we now have over 90,000 registered pesticide products, built from 3,577 unique active ingredients.

We can look at these numbers — and at the sickness in our bodies — and know, intuitively, that it’s all wrong. That no one in authority is actually looking out for us.

Dye another day

It took the allegedly “anti-science” RFK Jr. to ban carcinogenic food dyes. And yet, we’ve known about their harm for decades. Red Dye No. 3 was banned from cosmetics in 1990 — so why did it take 35 more years to consider removing it from our food?

Recent research links food dyes like Red No. 3 and Red No. 40 to DNA damage and to the sharp rise of colorectal cancer in young adults over the past 40 years. One study put it plainly:

Our results show that Red 40 damages DNA both in vitro and in vivo. ... This evidence supports the hypothesis that Red 40 is a dangerous compound.

The parallel with pesticides is obvious. We have similar data proving that perfectly legal pesticides are carcinogenic. But who has the political will to confront the EPA and break the industrial pesticide complex?

Pesticide pestilence

As I wrote previously, pesticides in our homes and gardens pose serious risks for us and our unborn children. Now, consider the 280 million pounds of glyphosate sprayed annually on 285 million acres of farmland — an area nearly three times the size of California.

And pesticides don’t simply vanish. They metastasize and bioaccumulate. Every step up the food chain concentrates them further.

The results are devastating:

  • A 2025 JAMA study found that living within one mile of a golf course increases Parkinson’s risk by 126%. The risk stays elevated up to three miles. Communities sharing municipal water systems connected to golf courses faced nearly double the risk. The suspected culprit? Persistent pesticide contamination.

Farmers themselves are the first casualties. Studies show they face elevated rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, gliomas, leukemia, and melanoma.

And the damage doesn’t stop at harvest. Pesticides remain on the skin of fruit and vegetables and the surface of grains; tests have found glyphosate in most U.S. wines and beers. According to one study, glyphosate at a level of just one part per trillion can stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells and disrupt the endocrine system.

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Buddy system

Why is the United States so saturated with poisons that Europe has long banned?

  • 2016 research showed that more than 322 million pounds of pesticides used in the U.S. were already outlawed in the European Union — over a quarter of America’s total volume.
  • Europe bans chemicals when there’s credible evidence of harm. The EPA, in contrast, tends to have a cozy relationship with the pesticide industry, resulting in lax oversight.

So Europe outlaws neonicotinoids (bee-killing pesticides), paraquat, and chlorpyrifos — while America still sprays them. Paraquat, linked to Parkinson’s disease, remains widely applied in the U.S.

And it’s not just domestic hypocrisy. While driving in France this summer, I passed a pesticide plant that manufactures chemicals banned in Europe — yet sells them abroad. This practice is common, sinister, and completely legal.

Into the woods

The insanity extends beyond agriculture. Glyphosate is sprayed into forests for “management.” In Nova Scotia, officials actually closed parks for fire danger — then announced plans to spray glyphosate across thousands of acres. A move that kills trees, suppresses growth, increases fire risk, and poisons pollinators.

This is not new. In the 1960s, scientists showed that DDT and its byproducts accumulated in birds, thinning eggshells and driving bald eagles and peregrine falcons to the brink of collapse. Decades later, banned chemicals like DDT and PCBs are still found in marine life.

We have always known. And yet the pesticide game continues.

Ground-up reform

I honestly believe that banning the last 50 years of registered pesticide products would do more good for humanity than any other environmental reform. Plastics are a fast second.

The main takeaway is this: Our 90,000+ registered pesticides are destroying us. The cumulative 3,577 unique active ingredients they use concentrate in every step of the food chain, ending in our bodies.

And here’s the bitter truth: RFK Jr., even as HHS head, has no power over the EPA. If the food supply is poisoned from the ground up, his efforts are for naught.

So we return to the first question: Who will stand up for us?

Why the nicotine myth might be the most lethal public health lie



An alarming new survey reveals a dangerous blind spot in the medical community: Countless doctors still believe nicotine directly causes cancer. That myth has been repeated for decades, but science says otherwise.

The survey by Povaddo LLC included 1,565 U.S. medical professionals. Nearly half of health care practitioners (47%) and 59% of those treating heavy smokers incorrectly identified nicotine as a carcinogen. Another 19% weren’t sure. The result: Many physicians discourage patients from trying “tobacco harm reduction” products — like e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco — that contain nicotine but eliminate the thousands of toxins in combustible cigarettes.

It’s time for the FDA to cut through decades of propaganda and tell the truth: Nicotine is addictive, but it isn’t the cause of cancer.

This misunderstanding costs lives. By misidentifying nicotine as the killer, doctors steer smokers away from safer alternatives that could dramatically reduce cancer, heart disease, and lung disease.

Education matters. Health care providers need to know nicotine is addictive, but the real harm comes from the smoke. Until that distinction is clear, patients will remain trapped in the deadliest habit of all — traditional smoking.

Science has already proven the case. A conventional cigarette contains more than 600 ingredients and, when burned, produces over 7,000 chemicals, including arsenic, formaldehyde, tar, and lead. Smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, according to the CDC, making it the nation’s leading cause of preventable death. By contrast, studies show vaping or smokeless products cut exposure to those toxic substances by orders of magnitude.

Even the FDA admits this. In 2017, then-Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said, “Nicotine, though not benign, is not directly responsible for the tobacco-caused cancer, lung diseases, and heart disease that kills hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.” Yet years later, the agency continues to regulate vaping into oblivion while dragging its feet on promoting THR.

The public is ahead of the bureaucrats. A 2024 poll of U.S. voters found overwhelming support for FDA reform and a strong desire to reduce smoking. Congress has noticed too. Former Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), a physician, called risk reduction for combustible smoking not “a partisan issue.” Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.), co-chairman of the Congressional Tobacco Harm Reduction Caucus, added: “As we move from smoke-based to smokeless products … that’s going to reduce the harm [caused by] tobacco across this country.”

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Americans want safer alternatives. Lawmakers in both parties support tobacco harm reduction. The medical community, however, remains misinformed — and the FDA’s mixed messaging hasn’t helped. Every day doctors cling to the nicotine myth, more smokers stay chained to cigarettes.

It’s time for the FDA to cut through decades of propaganda and tell the truth: Nicotine is addictive, but it isn’t the cause of cancer. Doctors need to know it, patients need to hear it, and policies need to reflect it. Mislabeling nicotine has killed enough people already.

If regulators and medical professionals are serious about saving lives, they must stop demonizing nicotine itself and start promoting harm reduction. Millions of lives depend on it.

Dallas Cowboys owner reveals shocking 15-year secret that almost took his life: 'I went into trials for that'



Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed to reporters on Tuesday that he had secretly battled a devastating illness for about a decade.

The revelation came after some detective work by a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, who noticed something odd in a recent Cowboys-focused documentary.

The Netflix doc "America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys" contains over 40 hours of interviews with the franchise owner, and in episode five, Jones reportedly dropped a hint that he had been seeing doctors at a special clinic.

'I was saved by a fabulous treatment.'

According to Brad Townsend's report, the episode "The Shootout at Valley Ranch" showed Jones explaining that a doctor at MD Anderson had given him advice on how to deal with the tense relationship he had with former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson.

"You need to do a lot of meditation. Make a list of 10 people who can just boil your blood. Start with the one at the top and wish for them the greatest things you can wish for," Jones reportedly recalled about the doctor's advice. "At No. 1, I wrote down the name 'Jimmy Johnson.'"

In his story, Jones said he returned to see the same doctor a few weeks later. What might not be obvious to most viewers is that MD Anderson is a cancer hospital in Houston, Texas.

The discovery led to the local Dallas reporter asking Jones about a possible diagnosis, causing Jones to drop the bombshell that he been hiding a battle with stage 4 melanoma for almost 15 years.

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"I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1," Jones told the Dallas Morning News. "I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines."

The American Cancer Society lists melanoma as having a five-year survival rate, or about a third of the amount of time since Jones received his diagnosis in June 2010.

"I now have no tumors," the 82-year-old revealed.

PD-1 stands Programmed Cell Death Protein 1, an immunotherapy that fights cancer cells and enables T-cells to better recognize and destroy cancer cells.

Jones also noted his treatments over the years included four surgeries: two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. The franchise owner only started the experimental procedures toward the end of the 2010s, but it remains unclear which year that was.

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Despite the success the recent documentary is based on, the Cowboys have struggled throughout the last 25 years and have not come anywhere close to a Super Bowl berth.

The Cowboys are coming off a 31-21 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the preseason last Saturday and have endured recent public turmoil stemming from contract disputes with defensive star Micah Parsons.

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