r/DecodingTheGurus

Jordan Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila has given another update on his health. She says that he has a neurological issue induced by a psychiatric medication.

I’m sure that you can get neurological issues from these medications but I really doubt that’s all that’s going on with him. I do think that a lot of this stems from him being out into a coma to get off benzos.

The video she put out is overall an hour long, it’s hard to get through, she starts crying which makes me very uncomfortable - to be honest I doubt I’ll watch it all. She seems to be pivoting to promoting woo treatments, diets etc for psych med injury.

I hope that JBP recovers from his health problems, I’m not sure that publicising it via these sort of videos and business ventures is going to help.

I'm frankly embarrassed I ever defended Sam Harris when people called him a bigot.

I listened to this interview and broadly it was about what you'd expect from these two geniuses, but a couple of things that stood out even by Russell Brand standards.

1) He uses the Bible to legitimise paedophile-ring / demonic-elite conspiracies

He starts by talking about people moving away from traditional media towards the sort of deranged conspiracy material associated with Alex Jones and David Icke, which he agrees with. He then says the challenge is to keep such claims “corroboratable” then saying these lurid ideas are already there in scripture, strongly suggesting that's the corroboration.

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He then says it even more clearly later on.

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2) Brand and Carlson both claim Kamala Harris would also have taken the US to war with Iran

This is one thing people miss when they talk about Carlson turning on Trump. Both of them seem genuinely dismayed that Trump ended up starting a war with Iran, but neither is capable of taking any responsibility for having backed him. Instead, they reassure themselves that if even someone as supposedly “extraordinary” as Trump ends up doing what the “globalist imperialists” wanted, then Harris would obviously have done the same.

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Apart from that, there is plenty of the usual Russell Brand material:

3) Religion used as pseudo-profound conspiracy fuel

Brand moves very quickly from prayer and spiritual language into talk of hidden power, dark forces, and conspiracy.

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4) The very convenient conversion story

Brand says he became a Christian just as he was facing rape allegations and dealing with his child’s illness.

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5) Recasting the Paxman interview as persecution

He retells the Paxman episode not as a moment where his views were shown up as facile and he was widely mocked, but as proof that he had become a threat to powerful people.

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6) Humility talk mixed with obvious grandiosity

He denounces ego and power while floating a ludicrous plan to run for Mayor of London.

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The enlightened centrist trope continues in 2026.