Jordan Peterson's All-Beef Diet Sounds an Awful Lot Like Vapid Pseudoscience
Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson, a very serious thought leader who believes that men would be less violent if only women were legally required to have sex with them, recently sat for a lengthy interview with Helen Lewis and our across-the-pond colleagues at British GQ. Most of their conversation focused on the pet peeves for which he is known best: feminism, political correctness, and so on. One notable digression, however, concerned the peculiar way that Peterson apparently fuels his brand of vapid pseudointellectualism: He claims to adhere to an all-beef diet.
"Really? Just beef? Can you have, like, ketchup on it?" Lewis asks, with the weary sigh of someone who has just been politely informed that the airline has no record of any reservation under their name. "No, nothing," he replies. "It isn't something I would lightly recommend." He goes on to characterize the regimen as "a little hard on your social life," as if his permanent dead-eyed stare and long-winded expositions on the hazards of "cultural Marxism" weren't already enough to make him North America's suckiest party guest.
Is this your intellectual?
Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson, a very serious thought leader who believes that men would be less violent if only women were legally required to have sex with them, recently sat for a lengthy interview with Helen Lewis and our across-the-pond colleagues at British GQ. Most of their conversation focused on the pet peeves for which he is known best: feminism, political correctness, and so on. One notable digression, however, concerned the peculiar way that Peterson apparently fuels his brand of vapid pseudointellectualism: He claims to adhere to an all-beef diet.
"Really? Just beef? Can you have, like, ketchup on it?" Lewis asks, with the weary sigh of someone who has just been politely informed that the airline has no record of any reservation under their name. "No, nothing," he replies. "It isn't something I would lightly recommend." He goes on to characterize the regimen as "a little hard on your social life," as if his permanent dead-eyed stare and long-winded expositions on the hazards of "cultural Marxism" weren't already enough to make him North America's suckiest party guest.
It turns out that Peterson's inspiration is his 26-year-old daughter Mikhaila, who told The Atlantic that she began experimenting with elimination diets a few years ago in an effort to address a laundry list of maladies. When only beef, salt, and water remained, her symptoms began disappearing. ("Strangely enough," she notes, her body can still "tolerate" bourbon and vodka.) Today, her father professes to have realized the same types of miraculous results: He told Lewis that he's lost 50 pounds in seven months, stopped snoring, shed unspecified autoimmune conditions, and stopped taking antidepressants altogether. He did not address whether this life choice has helped to curb his penchant for trafficking in boring sexism disguised as groundbreaking academic thought. Perhaps a few more months of hamburger patties will tell. -snip
Peterson's politics aside, that can not be healthy for the body or the mind, only eating beef.
Only thing I've read [yeas ago] that is similar is a man who had severe reactions to most foods, so he went on raw meat diet and occasionally adds some plain mixed greens in small quantities. But he also raises the animals he eats and he eats as much of the animal as possible, organs and all, which will provide a wider variety of nutrients and vitamins than solely eating cooked animal muscle fiber.