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Jordan Peterson’s ‘catastrophic’ injury from psychiatric drugs · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon Headlines. He was world famous for his
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  Speaker 1: big ideas about cancel culture, political correctness and how we
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  Speaker 1: should help young men find themselves. But now Jordan Peterson
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  Speaker 1: has disappeared from public life and his daughter says he's
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a serious illness she believes was triggered by
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric medications. Peterson, a Canadian academic and psychologist who became
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest names in self help publishing in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty tens, is a climate change skeptic and says
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  Speaker 1: there's a crisis of masculinity. He says individuals need to
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  Speaker 1: take responsibility for their own actions and behavior to find serenity.
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  Speaker 1: He's previously disclosed an addiction to anti anxiety drugs known
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  Speaker 1: as benzodiazepines. Now, his daughter, Michaela says Peterson has a
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  Speaker 1: neurological injury and symptoms of mental distress known as cafesia.
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  Speaker 1: She said Pederson's been through pneumonia, sepsis, health problems triggered
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  Speaker 1: by mold and other issues. The family are enthusiasts for
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  Speaker 1: all meat diets. Jim Chalmers has offered a grim warning
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  Speaker 1: about the economy. The Treasurer says Australia is quote hostage
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  Speaker 1: to decisions made by the White House and Tehran, and
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  Speaker 1: says inflation and unemployment are likely to keep climbing. Chalmers
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  Speaker 1: met with his G twenty counterparts in Washington last week
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  Speaker 1: and says they're equally frustrated by the ongoing Middle East conflict.
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  Speaker 1: The treasure is due to hand down the federal budget
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  Speaker 1: on May twelve. He's flagged cost saving measures, particularly relating
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  Speaker 1: to the ballooning cost of the National Disability Insurance scheme.
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  Speaker 1: After a stunning rise, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party has slumped,
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  Speaker 1: with the latest News poll showing supporters dipped by three percent.
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  Speaker 1: Star recruit Barnaby Joyce claims it's down to some bad
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  Speaker 1: press about a former staffer's sexual assault conviction. In a
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  Speaker 1: fire exchange with Sky News host Laura Jays, So.
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  Speaker 2: You think you have been punished for hiring a convicted rapist.
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  Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of publicity around.
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  Speaker 2: It here, So you're blaming the press, not the rape conviction.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm just, I'm just I think we've dealt with
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  Speaker 3: this last time.
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  Speaker 2: So we did. But you know, I mean, you can
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  Speaker 2: blame that. You're blaming the press for the slump in
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  Speaker 2: the deep in the polls or blaming action.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I'm saying that it would have affected the polls.
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  Speaker 2: And then that's there's your assir, Laura, do you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the Middle East?
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  Speaker 3: Sean Black was convicted in twenty eighteen of raping and
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  Speaker 3: violently assaulting a woman, but The Australian revealed in early
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  Speaker 3: April Black had been re hired by One Nation. Pauline
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  Speaker 3: Hanson said last week she came to an agreement with
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  Speaker 3: Black to end his employment with the party.
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  Speaker 1: in the morning for one of Australia's most contentious
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