Jordan Peterson

“built built into the laws like bill Bill C-16 in Canada now, and the same in the laws in New York City that govern the use of these gender pronouns. Built into…”

Peterson claims Bill C-16 and New York City pronoun laws have written into them the idea that identity has no biological foundation and is purely subjective.

“because the university regarded that as against the university policies and also against the Ontario Human Rights Code, so also illegal. And as my employers, t…”

Peterson claims that refusing to use preferred gender pronouns is against the Ontario Human Rights Code and therefore illegal, and that his employer is legally responsible for everything he says under that legislation.

“So what's happening is the law is already such that not using one of these made-up pronouns is a crime, whereas using a racial epithet isn't.”

Peterson claims Canadian law already makes failing to use alternative gender pronouns a crime while using a racial epithet is not a crime.

“Yes. They wouldn't have changed the damn criminal. They put it in the hate speech category and altered the criminal code. It's as simple as that.”

Peterson claims Bill C-16 altered Canada's Criminal Code by adding gender identity to the hate-speech category, arguing this proves the law has real legal teeth.

“the student who screamed up a storm about the male professor, who was the husband of the woman who wrote the pro-Halloween costume letter, it turned out she wa…”

Peterson claims that at the Yale Halloween costume controversy, the student who confronted the professor had herself sat on the hiring committee that hired him.

“No, it didn't exist, there's no evidence for it whatsoever, it's complicated but it's the telling of a kind of psychological myth as if it was history”

Peterson claims there is no evidence whatsoever for the prehistoric matriarchal society described by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, calling it pure myth.

“And Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize for that book and for his other writing and it was one of the one of the key there was a couple of things that brought down …”

Peterson claims Solzhenitsyn won his Nobel Prize for The Gulag Archipelago.

“Okay, it says World Health Organization estimates that. Sorry, it's 600,000, so I must have been citing figures over a decade. There is a part on here that say…”

Peterson claims WHO data shows over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air and cites conflicting death tolls (600,000 vs up to 7 million per year) from air pollution.

“the united states has cut its carbon emissions 15% in the last 20 years it's gone down not up down why fracking fracking yeah fracking really”

Peterson claims the US has cut its carbon emissions by 15% over the last 20 years primarily due to fracking.

“He was a professor who taught transgender studies at the University of Toronto. And yeah, he said outright that there were no biological differences between me…”

Peterson claims a University of Toronto professor of transgender studies stated on a TV program that scientific consensus holds there are no biological differences between men and women.

“our government has now announced that the judiciary in Canada will be selected. If you're going to be a candidate to be a judge, you have to produce a dossier …”

Peterson claims the Canadian government now requires judicial candidates to submit a dossier specifying their racial, ethnic, and religious identities, and that committee members must undergo mandatory anti-bias training before serving.

“they is used to repair awkward sentences basically, but it's never been used despite the claims of the of the gender bender activists. It's never been used for…”

Peterson claims that singular "they" has never actually been used in English despite activists' claims that it has.

“then I looked at the YouTube stats, and 70% of people who listened to YouTube were males”

Peterson claims that 70% of YouTube's audience is male, citing this as an explanation for his own audience skew.

“more people die every year from solar energy than die from nuclear. Who dies from solar? Guess how you die from solar? Sunburn? No, you fall off the roofs when…”

Peterson claims more people die annually from solar energy installation accidents than from nuclear power.

“Africa has the fastest growing economies in the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.”

Peterson claims Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, has the fastest growing economies in the world.

“That was the big climate meeting in the UK just a few months ago. You know, the one where all the COVID rules were suspended so the important people”

Peterson claims that COVID rules were suspended at the COP26 climate summit in the UK so that attendees could meet.

“how many people starve to death now in the world yeah almost none and let's look that almost all almost all those who do do it because of political conflict”

Peterson claims almost nobody starves to death in the world today, and that virtually all who do starve are victims of political conflict rather than poverty or crop failure.

“in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1959, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people were killed in internal oppression alone. And then in China... it might h…”

Peterson claims 30-50 million people were killed in internal Soviet oppression between 1919-1959, and up to 100 million killed under Mao in China.

“10% of men are as feminine in their personality as the average woman is. And vice versa, 10% of women are as masculine in their personality as the average man …”

Peterson claims that exactly 10% of men have personality traits as feminine as the average woman, and vice versa for women.

“we've lifted more people out of poverty in the last 15 years than in the entire course of human history.”

Peterson claims that in the 15 years preceding 2022, more people were lifted out of poverty than in all of prior human history combined.

“if you look at teenagers, for example, who want to switch genders, 95% of them are unbearably confused.”

Peterson claims that 95% of teenagers who currently want to switch genders are simply confused rather than experiencing genuine gender dysphoria.

“I had psoriasis and that's gone. And I had peripheral uveitis, which caused my right eye to be full of floaters because there's inflammation on the bottom prod…”

Peterson claims his all-meat carnivore diet cured his psoriasis and resolved his peripheral uveitis (eye floaters caused by inflammation).

“the most reliable difference that psychologists have ever found between men and women, the biggest difference, is interest. So women are reliably more interest…”

Peterson claims that the largest and most reliable psychological sex difference ever documented is a 'people vs. things' interest difference, at about one standard deviation.

“In any hierarchical system, when you stress the system, the disproportionate amount of that stress falls on the people who are in the lower rungs because they'…”

Peterson claims that in any hierarchical system a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 5% increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, because stress falls disproportionately on those at the bottom.

“70% of people, if you sum their scores across all 13 domains, scored zero”

Peterson claims his Creative Achievement Questionnaire research found that 70% of people score zero across all 13 measured creative domains, meaning most people are not creative at all.

“not only is that true, it's so true that you can model the distribution of money in a population using equations derived from physics.”

Peterson claims that wealth concentration in a population can be modeled with equations derived from physics, presenting this as strong confirmation of Marx's observation.

“the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s. And that was a consequence of women going into the workforce en masse, leaving thei…”

Peterson claims the 1980s satanic ritual abuse daycare panic was caused by mothers entering the workforce and developing pathological, sometimes borderline-schizophrenic fantasies about strangers caring for their children.

“5% of them would drink themselves into a coma on first exposure.”

Peterson claims that in a Montreal researcher's study of wild-caught vervet (green) monkeys given access to alcohol, 5% of the monkeys drank themselves into a coma on their very first exposure.

“And it also brought the Chinese into the economy, which is a big deal. The Chinese produce more engineers every year than”

Peterson claims China produces more engineers every year than the total number of engineers that exist in the United States.

“You make marine protected areas like national parks that you need about 15% of the total coastal territory”

Peterson claims that protecting about 15% of total coastal territory as marine protected areas would solve the problem of depleted coastal fisheries.

“When the trans teenagers came after me when I opposed Bill C-16 in Canada on compelled speech grounds, I spent quite a bit”

Peterson claims he opposed Canada's Bill C-16 specifically on the grounds that it compelled speech.

“the shamanic experience which is replicable cross-culturally and which dominated the human landscape for at least 20 000 years we know that it involves a”

Peterson claims it is established knowledge that shamanic religious experience dominated human culture worldwide for at least 20,000 years.

“Jonathan Haidt, he's a psychologist at the New York University Business School.”

Peterson identifies Jonathan Haidt as a psychologist at the NYU Business School.

“our research indicated, research on political correctness indicated that this trait agreeableness is a good predictor of holding politically correct views, and…”

Peterson claims his research found that trait agreeableness and being female are good predictors of holding politically correct views.

“our education system, our education system was designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers because it was set up when rural people were mi…”

Peterson claims the modern education system was deliberately designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers for industrializing cities.

“they pretty much wiped out or raped and froze to death all of their competent farmers. They called them kulaks”

Peterson claims the Soviets wiped out, raped, and froze to death their competent kulak farmers during collectivization.

“if you want to read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning. And Ordinary Men is about... Browning was interes…”

Peterson attributes the book Ordinary Men to an author named Robert Browning, describing the police battalion study.

“You know, you hear, television makes people stupider. It's like, no, it makes smart people who could have been even smarter if they would have read Shakespeare…”

Peterson claims television only makes already-smart people relatively 'stupider' than they would have been otherwise, while being a net positive for severely deprived, unattended children, implying no downside from passive screen exposure for disadvantaged kids.

“But it isn't obvious to me that exporting those jobs was a bad long-term decision. Because, well, you want a world where 20 million Chinese are starving? That'…”

Peterson claims that without offshoring manufacturing to China, 20 million Chinese people would be starving.

“certainly in New York and the employment EEOC has already ruled on that with regards to businesses for the US.”

Peterson claims the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has already ruled that businesses must use invented gender pronouns.

“we did it at Mohawk College in Canada a year ago, and we dropped their dropout rate in the first semester 50%”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring program cut first-semester dropout rates by 50% at Mohawk College.

“And second, if you're concerned about pollution, especially particulate pollution, especially indoors, which kills, I think, 7 million children a year.”

Peterson claims indoor particulate pollution from wood/biomass burning kills 7 million children per year worldwide.

“It isn't even obvious you need vitamin C. Now I'm going to get killed for that. Apparently, there's some indication that you only require vitamin C if you eat …”

Peterson claims there is some indication that vitamin C is only required by the body if a person eats carbohydrates, implying it is unnecessary on a pure carnivore diet.

“And, oh, yeah, just before she debated, a study was released that was published by Harvard epidemiologists. I think they were epidemiologists. They did a retro…”

Peterson describes a retrospective survey study of 2,400 people on a carnivore diet for six months, published by Harvard epidemiologists via Oxford University Press, showing radical weight loss and a 90% reduction in self-reported disease symptoms.

“he was responsible for the death of somewhere between 50 and 70 million people yeah he changed the carbon footprint of the planet earth during his lifetime bec…”

Peterson claims Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of 50 to 70 million people and that this measurably changed the planet's carbon footprint.

“one of the things that's happened over the last century is the mean IQ has gone up seven points per generation, which is a lot, like it's really a lot. So 15 p…”

Peterson claims average IQ has risen seven points per generation (every 15 years) over the last century, and that this equals half the gap between a high school and college graduate.

“It's 20 to 1 female to male nurses and 20 to 1 male to female engineers.”

Peterson claims that in Scandinavian countries, which have maximized equal opportunity, the gender ratio is 20-to-1 female-to-male among nurses and 20-to-1 male-to-female among engineers.

“But the New Testament, of course, was constructed by Constantine and a series of bishops. They took things out. They added things.”

Peterson claims the New Testament was constructed by Roman Emperor Constantine and a group of bishops who added and removed material.

“There's a reason that J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England by, she's richer than the queen.”

Peterson claims J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England and richer than the Queen.

“And Carl Jung took issue with that. He was a student of Nietzsche's, and he pointed out, basically, that, well, wait a minute. Who says you can create your own…”

Peterson states that Carl Jung was a student of Friedrich Nietzsche and that Jung responded to Nietzsche's idea that people could create their own values after the death of God.

“6 million Ukrainians starved to death. They had posters. The Soviets produced posters in the 1930s that said, essentially, don't forget it's wrong to eat your …”

Peterson states 6 million Ukrainians starved to death in the Holodomor and that Soviet posters explicitly warned against eating your children.

“we've raised their grade point average of their kids 25 percent, dropped their dropout rate the same, and it's had a walloping effect on men and on non-Western…”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring writing program raised GPA by 25%, cut dropout rates by the same amount, and moved non-Western minority students from 70% below average to outperforming Dutch native women at Rotterdam School of Management.

“there's no evidence that there's any relationship between intelligence and morality.”

Peterson asserts there is no evidence linking intelligence to morality.

“there's no evidence, by the way, that that works at all. In fact, the evidence that there is suggests quite the contrary.”

Peterson claims mandatory unconscious bias training has no evidence of effectiveness and that existing evidence suggests it backfires.