Canadian Politics Today

Just because you don't like his politics doesn't make him an academic failure.  He was a professor.  He taught a class.  That's not being a failure anymore than Justin Trudeau is an academic failure teaching his drama class.

He has a PhD.  Many PhD's kept giving him grades good enough to become a PhD.  Academic journals keep publishing his research.  His PhD isn't in political science.  He has an undergrad in poli-sci i believe.  If he was wrong about Marx and nature, which is a fair point, that doesn't make him "a fraud", it makes him incorrect on that point.  Academics are allowed to be wrong.  Marx was wrong about a lot of things too, and right about a lot of things.

Peterson is not much of an academic authority on politics.  He has just modestly educated opinions, he's a culture warrior.  Take him or leave him.  You're a left-leaning type, as is Black Dog, we get it.  Some of his political opinions are backed up by his actual expertise, which is psychology, I take those opinions more seriously because he cites the research in his arguments.  I don't even know why people care about his opinions on Marxism.  A poli-sci PhD academic should not be an activist on whatever they're researching, confirmation bias sets in. JP is a political activist.

Sorry, read the posts above and his faceplant on Marxism.

That's the reason he is ridiculous.  If you forgot, I was initially hopeful he would provide guidance on the issue of pronouns and rights.

What does him being wrong about Marxism have to do with him being a Phd, a clinical psychologist etc?  You’re not making any sense.  Somebody can have an opinion outside of their field of study, and be wrong about it.  This is a sophomoric standard.  We get it, you don’t like the guy.  You do the same thing for Elon Musk.  It seems to be an unconscious bias you have.

He's not a fraud because he's wrong.  He's a fraud because he can't execute the basics of mounting a thesis.

1. I think that's a very gross overgeneralization based on one incorrect point. 
2. And he can present a thesis just fine, but this one in particular doesn't seem to have the evidence to back it up. 
3. There are other things I've disagreed with him on politically. 
4. A PhD in social science will know how to make an argument.  His research here is lazy.  He's just kind of mouthing off with assumptions that aren't true.

I think it's good for someone to bring forward arguments that go against the progressive zeitgeist of the last 60 years, and bring new ideas and perspectives that aren't just from people like Trump or Tucker Carlson.  I get that this is a threat to Black Dog's worldview, and even MH's worldview, but that's the whole point.