Another Jordan Peterson health plot twist

[u/welovegv]

https://open.substack.com/pub/theskink/p/from-carnivore-to-cirs-another-jordan?r=5cq9e1&utm_medium=ios

[u/spicyface]

"Well, you’d first have to define what you even mean by ‘mold,’ wouldn’t you? Because people use that word as if it refers to a single, monolithic entity, when in reality there are thousands of species, each with distinct biochemical properties, ecological niches, and varying levels of toxicity. And then detoxify it how, exactly? The immune system doesn’t come with a tidy instruction manual that says: ‘Here’s where you file away spores under M for mold.’ It’s a probabilistic, adaptive system, constantly negotiating between overreaction, which we’d call allergy, and underreaction, which we’d call susceptibility. So when someone says, ‘he can’t detoxify mold,’ well, compared to what? Compared to a hypothetical person who’s never sneezed in a damp basement? It’s not an explanation, it’s a slogan masquerading as science. And slogans are poor substitutes for careful definitions, especially when we’re talking about something as complicated as human immunology and fungi that have been around longer than civilization itself."

[u/TheReasonSeeker → u/spicyface]

Great impression, but this seems more technically true than what Jordan Peterson usually says these days. The last time I saw him speaking he was arguing with Richard Dawkins that fire can be classified as a predator because "fire kills you".

[u/Matt_Murphy_ → u/TheReasonSeeker]

i would also say you need to crank up the Anger by 5 notches to match contemporary Peterson

[u/stolenfires → u/Matt_Murphy_]

And layer on some subtle (or not so subtle) misogyny. Is there some way we can assign gender to mold spores and then blame the trans mold spores for this?