I'm not sure why some people think so highly of Peterson, particularly people who claim to value 'facts and logic' and all that, when he does stuff like this and claims he didn't sleep for 25 days after drinking cider. I'm reminded of Steve Jobs trying to cure his cancer with acupuncture etc rather than just listening to his doctors. Apparently his arguments are pretty easily taken apart too, particularly when he starts talking about postmodernism.
Still. Hopefully he recovers. The back and forth on Twitter's predictably grim and not worth looking at.
what was his daughter cured of by only eating beef? that sounds ridiculous :crylarf:
I didn't say he was, I said some of the people who are seem to think highly of him. There's some overlap between him and the clips of various people "destroying" students etc on YouTube. And it's a bit more than 'wacko ideas about nutrition'. He claimed to have gone without sleep for 25 days after drinking apple cider. That's fourteen days more than the world record...
He has tendency to exaggerate a bit. He hardly speaks like your average academic. That and people in general read stuff way too literal obviously distort things.
He stated it multiple times in the same interview and his tenth rule for life is 'be precise in your speech'...
Well it is not about whether you didnt sleep for 25 or 15 or 10 days straight. It is about how his exact experience was.
It is a good idea to tidy your room. A less good idea to align yourself with known racists and reactionaries under current circumstances
Maybe he does that, Idk. The guilty by association is a tough game to win (lose?) in this connected world.