Jordan Peterson is not an Oracle
Canadian professor of psychology Jordan B. Peterson offers his views on every possible topic, but should we listen?
This article began as I was writing about highly intelligent and successful figures in academia who abuse their well-earned recognition in one area to peddle pseudo-science and nonsense in other areas. I began by writing about William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, who after his successful scientific career spent his life peddling eugenics and pseudo-scientific racist theories without having any training in human evolution, biology, neuroscience or similar. However, few people today know Shockley, so I began writing about a very famous contemporary: Canadian professor of psychology Jordan B. Peterson who gained a massive following in part due to his very successful book 12 Rules for Life combined with his criticism of political correctness and identity politics, which turned him into an icon on the political right.
The fame of Jordan B. Peterson has put him in a position to make highly public statements and remarks about almost everything in society. Peterson excels as saying absolute rubbish about a long list of topics, but he does so in such an elegant speech filled with intellectual sounding words and phrases that it sounds like he said something profound and…
