Truly, not all heroes wear capes. @newscientist@flipboard.com have taken one for the team and read psychologist-turned-Youtuber Jordan Peterson's new book, "We Who Wrestle With God." The TL;DR: It's marketed as being about how ancient myths and legends may offer life lessons, but it's actually all about the Bible and how it's “the foundation of the West, plain and simple.” (The ancient Greeks and Romans, the Norse, and many Arabic scholars would like a word.) And where Peterson tries to link his ideas to human biology, it all goes to pot. In one section, Peterson claims that pregnant and nursing women manifest "increased dependency" and therefore cannot compete with men for status. "At this point we exercised our emergent authority and stopped reading," the New Scientist team say.
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