Jordan Peterson has been hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.
The psychologist, author, and bottomless fountain of tears is currently hospitalized and suffering from pneumonia and sepsis, as well as a spate of neurological issues that have apparently left him unable to regulate his emotions.
His daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, took to X to give the world an update on her father’s health, describing his recovery as “slow and scary”, and admitting “we’re not entirely sure what’s going on”.
The stated cause of Peterson’s ongoing neurological and physical deterioration is SIRS (systemic inflammatory response syndrome) caused by mold exposure. This is apparently the result of decades of living with mold, though it was recently exacerbated by exposure to an especially moldy environment.
Mold can be sneaky and dangerous, but he’s been a godawful mess for years — when he sprang on the scene, he was already deranged, and he’s only gotten worse. The stint in Russia in an induced coma probably didn’t help either.
Here’s hoping he recovers, but that someone realizes he is mentally unhealthy and should be spending the rest of his life quietly resting at home slurping his soup and shaking his fist at the TV.
His daughter thinks demons are involved, but this is a case where an undigested bit of beef might play a bigger role.
If there’s an alternate reality where he doesn’t listen to his daughter about anything health related, he’s probably a lot less sick in that reality.
I am less generous, and at 81 my time left is fading fast. I’d so like him to die before me, so I can gloat. Not that I ever would, or could, do anything whatsoever to hasten his or anyone else’s end.
Come to think of it it might be better for him to live and suffer for the evil he has done.
So he’s been one of those clickers from The Last of Us all along? Mold ain’t no joke, though I guess I just made one, because…fuck him.
Has anyone watched that obnoxious PF Jung who seems like a cloned lobster boy? Hard to imagine he was actually born with that last name. Weird stuff. Considers himself a dark centrist or some such. Hopefully he steered clear of the JP fungus among us though his brain seems infected with something. Memetic warfare he says. Bleck! JP has spawned many lobster boys. Clickers all.
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His daughter thinks demons are involved. Can’t be right. I always thought there was honour among demons.
There hasn’t been much in the way of good news this year so far.
This at least made my day.
Jordan Peterson deliberately tried to cause as much harm to as many people as possible.
What goes around comes around.
The mold thing seems like an excuse to me. I’m going to go ahead and assume this is the long-term consequences of him frying his brain with black-market meds at that shady rehab in Russia.
Demons are involved…demons of his imagination. They are dangerous.
First the fungoid brain, then the body. I mean, it explains so much!
I wonder if he’s still on a pure carnivore diet.
(Well, I don’t — he still lives)
“Clean up your room” advises Jordan Peterson. Don’t live in a badly mold infested house. Don’t do drugs. Don’t eat a bad diet for years. Jordan Peterson is an incompetent guru.
Like Adam Lee@7, I have some doubts. Mold exposure is one of those vague medical conditions of dubious empirical status that the alt-health industry loves to latch on to precisely because it is almost impossible to confirm or exclude. Having said that, molds and fungi can cause severe toxicity (e.g. aflatoxin, if eaten), and infections in the immune compromised. And SIRS is a described medical syndrome, although highly controversial as to its explanatory power over existing inflammatory syndromes. In short, we don’t really have enough info to draw any conclusions.
“decades of living with mold”……WTF????!????????????
@12 You’d think with the money he made he could afford to renovate his house.
nomdeplume @12 and gijoel @13.
If his dumbass daughter is the source of the mold diagnosis, we can be sure it is not mold. I saw pictures of the inside of his Toronto house when it was for sale. I doubt a house that fancy would have a mold problem.
His mental and physical deterioration is due to him being full of shit.
I had the same thought as everyone else here.
Peterson was quite wealthy with all the money he made as a right wingnut spokesperson. He lived in an expensive house in Toronto that was unlikely to have a mold problem.
I also don’t thing he was even home all that much, moving around and traveling all the time. And he is unlikely to have been exposed to mold for a long time. Peterson lives in Arizona USA, a dry climate.
Why isn’t this guy being deported by ICE as an undesirable alien? He is at the least an admitted former drug addict.
Peterson is about to lose his license to practice as a clinical psychologist. He should. He is a fraud and a quack.
@14 and 15.
Sorry, I should have put the sarcasm tag on that.
His daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, took to X to give the world an update on her father’s health…admitting “we’re not entirely sure what’s going on”.
That could be because they’ve both taught themselves not to trust people who actually know what they’re doing.
His mental and physical deterioration is due to him being full of shit.
Does mold grow on shit?
Props for the Dickens reference.
It’s astounding that there were self-identified skeptics who ever took this guy seriously. Even more astounding if there are still any.
I have long since stopped trying to remember all the kooks that pop up. At least the reptilian guy is entertaining.
(not all alien reptiles are evil. Only the – get this- Jewish ones!)
I recall Laura Loomer because the name reminds me of ‘loon’.
@20
Yeah, a lot of them end up blurring together.
I can’t say I much care. But, sepsis is a very serious condition. Jordan may not be with us that much longer.
I do feel bad for the mold.
Screw the mold, tell the mold to clean up its room and find a job!
Quite the amusing article here: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/jordan-peterson-needs-our-prayers-now
Maybe it’s just me? But it seems people keep on saying he’s about to lose his license.
seachange, a bit of research (sorry, not allowed to give you the specifics, it’s a verified AI synthesis) indicates that he ceased active clinical practice around 2017 but retained his license, and particularly after opposing Bill C-16 in 2016 and getting notoriety the College of Psychologists of Ontario began receiving complaints about him. So in 2022, the CPO ordered Peterson to complete a mandatory professionalism coaching program, citing concerns over reputational harm to the profession, which Peterson refused to do.
In August 2023 Ontario’s Divisional Court upheld the CPO’s directive, but as of 2025, Peterson remains licensed but non-compliant, with suspension pending if he continues to defy the mandated training.
But yes, I too have a perception of multiple hopeful comments to that effect.
(Bit of an irrelevance by now, but)
@26: IIRC, various anti-trans etc. social media comments triggered the complaints. JP’s acolytes were up in arms about how he was, once again, being persecuted by the PTB and prevented from earning his livelihood, ignoring the fact that it’s been years since he actually saw clients, and has done very well for himself off the guru grift.
Comment on Bluesky:
It sucks that the Petersons have glommed onto a very real problem and marginalized it with their crank bullshit.
Hmm… the mention of neurological symptoms makes me wonder if it’s a less pathogenic version of nvCJD he’s caught from the ludicrous all-beef diet – an unknown prion disease in cattle that stays under the public health radar because it only infects people under extraordinary circumstances.
@ ^ KG : Yes – him getting “Mad Cow”* disease of some form given his bizarre diet makes a lot of sense here.
. * Or to giev it ists medical name : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy
I know someone who got mad-cow/BSE, and died from it after about a month or two of progressive mental degradation. It’s not something one should make fun of, though stupid diet and health choices that led to it might be.
@ ^ Raging Bee : Fair enough and note that I wasn’t intending to make fun of Peterson there merely stating that makes a lot of sense and seems probable.
Of course, intentions are not magic I know.
StevoR: I wasn’t meaning to call anyone out, just saying BSE is really bad.
I had to google SIRS because they made that thing up in the last 10 or so years. “Decades living with mold”, is that a not so subtle analogy?