Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-03-28
Jordan Peterson & Michael Shellenberger: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #435
The Biggest Medical Scandal Of Our Time | Michael Shellenberger | EP 435
Michael Shellenberger recommended Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier and Political ponerology by Andrew M. Łobaczewski, and discussed The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey, Dominion by Tom Holland, and Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich. Jordan Peterson discussed Political Ponerology by Michael Rectenwald and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a 2020 non-fiction book that explores the social contagion aspect of gender dysphoria, focusing on the sudden, massive surge in teenage girls identifying as transgender.
Recommended“I’d read Abigail Shrier's book, but honestly, my psychological reaction until I was confronted with these files and asked to effectively bring them into the world was one of denial.”
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The Man Who Would Be Queen
The Man Who Would Be Queen by J.
Discussed“the other psychologist is Michael Bailey and he wrote a book on it so it's really these two characters twoy book I can't I it's something I think it was something like the man who be a woman yeah that's the man who would be Queen”
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Political ponerology
Political Ponerology by Andrew M.
Recommended“if you read political ponerology this really interesting book on the psychology of totalitarianism”
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Political Ponerology
Discussed“You know, it's if you believe—if you read Political Ponerology, this really interesting book on the psychology of totalitarianism, he argues that totalitarianism is defined by the narcissists and the psychopaths taking over every major institution in society and emerging from the bottom up.”
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Dominion
Dominion by Tom Holland is a sweeping historical work examining how Christianity shaped Western culture, secular values, and modern moral frameworks.
Discussed“the enlightenment is a is arguably a secularized version of the judeo-christian tradition that's the argument that Tom Holland makes and dominion and N made it others make it”
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Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich's critical examination of modern medical institutions investigates how institutional healthcare often generates more physical harm than healing.
Discussed“I was reading even book medical Nemesis which is about iatrogenesis the way the medical system makes people sick”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I'm talking today with journalist and author Michael shellenberger and Michael wrote apocalypse never why environmental alarmism hurts us all”
“Hello everybody, I'm talking today with journalist and author Michael Shellenberger, who wrote "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All" and has a new book coming out next year called "Pathocracy."”
“he has a new book coming out called pathocracy it won't launch until next year”
“I'd read Abigail shri's book”
“It's an old phenomenon; there's a wonderful book called "The Fourth Leading Cause of Death"u2014the fourth leading cause of deathu2014and that was before the vaccine compulsion.”
“the book I've just published or will publish in November the one I'm touring about is the book is we who wrestle with God and I make an elaborate case for this”