I don’t follow the day-to-day activities of the Peterson family, Jordan and Mikhaila, so I had just assumed that they were still pushing that cure-all diet of eating nothing but beef and salt. They aren’t! They’ve given up and shifted to a series of new diets. Mikhaila in particular is a real flibbertigibbet on her claims. The all-beef diet is so 2018.
In 2018, the all-beef diet had cured Jordan’s depression, tens of millions of people learned. But in 2026, Mikhaila admitted that her dad’s mental woes had not vanished: “it’s not the kind of depression you can normally diet and exercise away.” The carnivore diet had helped, she now claimed, but the much-vaunted magic bullet had been an exaggeration. It hadn’t even worked for her: in 2020, she thought beef was making her sick, so she stopped eating beef and switched to lamb and bison. Why? She hypothesized—and so much of what she does is hypothesizing and marketing her unproven conjectures—that North American beef was aged more and the ageing of the beef somehow made her sick. Croatian beef, eaten while on a trip, apparently wasn’t aged and she could digest it fine, but since she didn’t live in Croatia, she had to make changes. So, her exceptional diet was in like a lion, out like a lamb.
But now the all-lamb diet is also obsolete. She flipped through a whole series of hypothetical causes for illnesses, and hypothetical treatments.
The answer, at first, was her breast implants, which she had removed. Then, it was the “terrible tree allergies”she experienced while living in Tennessee, giving her brain fog. Subsequently, she moved to Miami in 2022, but the ill health did not abate. It turns out there was mould in her Florida house, which forced her to completely renovate it, sell it, and move to Arizona to undergo “mould treatment.” (I will be using the Canadian/British spelling; it is written “mold” in the United States.)
And so she took to her microphone to denounce mould as an invisible cause of illness. She created the website biotoxin.com to share papers linking mould to every conceivable disease and condition—autism, migraine, pain, even Parkinson’s disease. Sure, you can find individual studies showing preliminary evidence that there might possibly be some kind of link between mould exposure and, let’s say, dementia; but this should not be understood as “mould causes dementia.”
It’s not mold (mould) anymore, though. Her latest fad is…mitochondria. Maybe health problems are caused by bad mitochondria?
Mitochondria are real: they are the little factories inside of our cells charged with turning our food into energy. Some people have actual mitochondrial diseases because a key component inside their mitochondria is mutated. A much vaguer phenomenon known as mitochondrial dysfunction is also real, but it has been grossly exaggerated and serves as one of many boogeymen du jour for the Make America Healthy Again movement. Mikhaila Peterson had to jump on the bandwagon, and her first mention of it on her podcast appears to be from early 2023. So, now, this is her main culprit.
It’s all garbage noise, lacking in empirical evidence or supporting clinical studies, but that’s what enables her incessant flitting from cause to cause to cause, endlessly using her speculations to promote products that she can sell on her website. She’s a classic snake oil peddler. You don’t need to invest in a wagon and a fancy painted sign, and go to all the trouble of traveling from town to town anymore — just put up a website and take credit card orders, and when the grift dries up, switch in a new website.
The author of this article points out how transparent and simple Mikhaila’s game is by playing it himself. For instance…
I want to show how easy it is to construct these stories. I opened my old molecular biology textbook (Molecular Cell Biology, 4th edition, by Lodish and others) at a random page (769, if you’re playing at home) and imagined a theory I could promote on Mikhaila’s podcast based on the information that was on that page. My textbook reminded me that myosin is a molecular motor inside our cells and that it moves, like a train, on actin filaments. And funnily enough, you can break myosin down using an enzyme called papain. In what is papain found? The papaya fruit.
I could now use this knowledge to go on her podcast and, with adequate confidence and calm in my voice, promote my papain-free diet, sure to cure brain fog and chronic fatigue and likely to help you build muscles. Myosin, after all, is crucial to cell function. You don’t want it to break down, now do you? I might also be able to find a molecule that blocks the action of papain and sell it as a supplement so that people could continue enjoying papaya without feeling sluggish. And if the papaya-eating masses are not a big enough consumer base, I could add that other fruits contain similar enzymes that break down—read “damage!”—the essential proteins we need: pineapples, figs, kiwis, mangoes. All the more reason to platform me and my theory.
This is how you take molecular research, grossly misinterpret it, and turn it into a profitable health crusade.
Oh my god. I have concerns about my loss of income with retirement, and I glanced to the left of my computer, and I have shelves full of books on genetics, the biology of cancer, cell biology, and evolution. I’m sitting on a gold mine! I have a lot of basic knowledge about cellular processes, and about the developmental and evolutionary history of those processes, and with a trivial amount of effort I could turn all that into a wonderful grift.
If only I could come down with Alzheimer’s in the next year, a specific form of neuronal deterioration that selectively takes out any sense of integrity, self-respect, and restraint. Or maybe a serious blow to the head that scrambles my frontal cortex? It’s going to take a serious bit of brain damage to allow me to compete with Mikhaila.
Or, as your hydrochloric acid-charged stomach calls them: food.
I’m a bit loath to suggest this, as women often have their health claims ignored. But I wonder if she isn’t a hypochondriac. She seems to be suffering from something that changes symptoms and sources with the wind. Of course given the weird diets and treatments she’s tried she may just be suffering the side effects of said diets.
Strangely enough, Jordan Peterson and his daughter, Mikhaila, are foreigners living in the USA.
They are Canadians living in Arizona.
If there is such as thing as undesirable migrants in the USA, it is Jordan Peterson and Mikhaila.
Jordan Peterson is a vicious mindless hater who was finally kicked out by the University of Toronto and is facing the loss of his license to practice pseudo-psychology.
Why haven’t ICE already removed them?
(Spoiler alert. They are horrible people, right wing extremists, and…white.)
They could also take those other Canadians, Elon Musk and Steven Pinker with them when they leave.
We don’t want them.
You could make a good case in an immigration hearing that Jordan Peterson is an undesirable alien and should be deported to Canada. Here is an old post of mine quoting some of his mindless hatred for women.
Jordan Peterson has always been a conman selling hate and a sick puppy.
Forget that Enforced Monogamy Red Herring.
Sure it is disgusting and cuckoo.
It’s also just one of many Peterson’s misogynistic comments.
Just going to Xpost from a Pharyngula thread.
Jordan Peterson is a sick puppy!!! No matter how horrible a human being you think he is, the reality if far worse.
https://www.quora.com/Why-i…
The poster below on quora has some Peterson quotes. I normally don’t like to copy other people’s comments but in this case it’s important enough that I will with attribution. The sources are at the original article reached by the link.
My replies are in bold.
Riley May
Answered May 4, 2018 · Author has 70 answers and 83.4k answer views
Because he says things like:
..women have a subconscious wish for brutal male domination
This is bullcrap. He doesn’t know this.
..that it’s unfortunate that men can’t control women who say crazy things because they aren’t allowed to hit them
How about crazy men like Peterson. We aren’t allowed to hit them either.
Peterson admires violence and is frustrated that he can’t be violent towards women.
Guy is a sick puppy.
..young women are outraged because they don’t have a baby to suckle
Gibberish. He doesn’t know this. It’s just a misogynistic insult.
more….
..if a woman doesn’t want to have kids, there’s something wrong with her
Gibberish. It’s an opinion or an assertion without proof. It’s also wrong.
It’s a sick puppy thing again.
..and says “The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.” – despite women lacking basic human rights and legally being owned by men throughout history
The oppresion was/is blatantly true and obvious.
..says stuff like “Men cannot oppose pathological women because chivalry demands they keep their most potent weapons sheathed” on twitter
That violence thing again. I would be very surprised if Peterson doesn’t have a history of violence against women, children, and pets. Anything smaller and weaker than himself.
There is lots more. Pages and pages of sick garbage like this.
No matter how ugly and vicious Peterson seems, the reality is going to be far worse.
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More from a respected blogger, wonkette.
Xpost from Pharyngula by myself
https://wonkette.com/633856…
SO MANY. Starting with “the idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory,” and moving on to calling women who wear makeup and heels at work and don’t want to be sexually harassed “hypocrites.” You know, because of course the only reason women wear makeup is “because boners” and also there is no social pressure at all to wear make-up in order to look “professional.” Peterson is very mad about feminism, in general, and is a very big fan of “traditional gender roles,” without ever coming right out and saying that explicitly.
In the Vice interview linked above, he also says he’s not sure that men and women will ever be able to work together without sexual harassment being a problem. Which is quite strange because he’s so very into empowering young men to take “responsibility” for their lives, you would think he could also convince them that maybe playing grab-ass with their co-workers is a poor idea.
He has also decided that the whole reason we are so “outraged” these days is because we actually secretly desire not equality, but babies.
“Is it possible that young women are so outraged because they are craving infant contact in a society that makes that very difficult?”
More sick puppy misogynistic bullcrap from Peterson.
Peterson is also a control freak. He thinks he is entitled to control and police women.
And when they say NO he goes ballistic.
Peterson …”and moving on to calling women who wear makeup and heels at work and don’t want to be sexually harassed “hypocrites.””
Guy wants to police women’s bodies, women’s lives, and women’s dress.
Hey Peterson!!! It’s none of your damn business what a woman wears, her makeup or none, or her shoes. Or how she lives her life. FUCK OFF CREEP!!!
To put it another way, I don’t give a rat’s ass if Jordan Peterson wears a dress and high heels or combat boots and a camo T shirt. None of my business and no interest whatsoever.
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I realize what I posted is tl;dr for many. The summary.
Jordan Peterson is a conperson reflecting hate and bigotry to his fanboys for big money.
He is a mentally sick puppy.
He hasn’t had an original thought in his entire life.
Misogyny and racism aren’t in the least bit new.
All you need to know about Jordan Peterson.
I realize that what what I quoted above from Peterson is long.
Here is the TikTok version.
..women have a subconscious wish for brutal male domination
This is bullcrap. He doesn’t know this.
..that it’s unfortunate that men can’t control women who say crazy things because they aren’t allowed to hit them
How about crazy men like Peterson. We aren’t allowed to hit them either.
Peterson admires violence and is frustrated that he can’t be violent towards women.
Guy is a sick puppy.
..young women are outraged because they don’t have a baby to suckle
Gibberish. He doesn’t know this. It’s just a misogynistic insult.
more….
..if a woman doesn’t want to have kids, there’s something wrong with her
Gibberish. It’s an opinion or an assertion without proof. It’s also wrong.
It’s a sick puppy thing again.
..and says “The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.” – despite women lacking basic human rights and legally being owned by men throughout history
The oppresion was/is blatantly true and obvious.
..says stuff like “Men cannot oppose pathological women because chivalry demands they keep their most potent weapons sheathed” on twitter
This is Jordan Peterson. A conman selling hate towards women and frequently calling for violence.
timgueguen @ 2
She’s a grifter. She’ll say or do anything that will get her clicks.
She’s living proof being a gobshite is inheritable.
Here is what Jordan Peterson has been doing lately.
He has been sick, in the hospital for a while, and is still sick.
And he is now sort of a xian and his wife and daughter are both xians.
This source is a right wing xian website. You can tell because they call Peterson, ” …one of the world’s most influential commentators.” This isn’t the least bit true. He is a routine, mindless right wing hater.
What a shame it would be if she got bit by a lone star tick.
Jordan and Mikhaila should have a salad this evening with lots of lettuce. And, to be sure they don’t miss any nutrients, they should not wash it. ROFLMAO at the danger and stupidity of influencers!
Because I’ve watched quite a bit of nutrition influencer content on Youtube I land on sus videos from time to time that demonize seed oils and inevitably they lean carnivore.
Last night I started into some carnivore guy’s video and both Jordan and Mikhaila footage cropped up like pieces of gristle. I stopped watching.
For fun I will sometimes watch Max German because he’s so cocksure and entertaining for unintentional reasons. A slam on him here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gg4DqyzR1JA
If you want to make carnies’ heads explode tout eating a bunch of oatmeal…peasant food as some call it. Their kryptonite. They absolutely despise the stuff. And maybe cook stuff in seed oils.
I think it would be probably more effective if they frame the paprin story the other way around: paprin helps you by breaking down “bad” myosins. This way you can grift by making papaya (and your papaya extract) a “super food” and profit. Many people love “silver bullets” for health, and the non papaya-eating population is much larger.
I don’t go for fad diets, I just make sure I get a solid amount of the four basic food groups: Sugar group, Salt group, Fat group, and the Cholesterol group. I’m an octogenarian, so I guess it works.
The all-meat diet is only effective if you eat human flesh.
When my wife was in medical school on her way to a career in family medicine, I enjoyed listening to her and some fellow students ponder becoming rich quacks. That was forty years ago, long before the Age of Influencers. The insurmountable barrier they encountered on their way to untold riches was ethical living. None of them were ever able to truly cash in.
Medical quacks can and often do, kill people.
We see it all the time.
One of the worst I saw was over a decade ago.
Woman I knew, age 33 in a high risk group, was discovered with stage 1 breast cancer.
At this point, her chance of a cure was over 90%.
She went alt med and died at age 34 of…stage 4 breast cancer.
I saw a list of some of the stuff she was taking. Placental extract? Really?
Medical quacks can be very vicious if you point out where they are wrong.
What they are doing can be illegal, dangerous, and there is a lot of money to be made.
“It’s going to take a serious bit of brain damage to allow me to compete with Mikhaila.”
No, you just need to cure yourself of the (duh duh DUH!) Brain Fog by going ton the New Papain-free Diet…
raven @6, by substitution, you could write ‘his daughter’ wherever you use ‘women’, no?
(splitting hairs? irrelevant?)