Jordan Peterson: I will risk my licence to escape social media re-education
The Ontario College of Psychologists wants to retrain me to behave properly — and this should concern e
The practice of psychology in Ontario, and in many other North American
and western jurisdictions, is subject to regulation by “professional
colleges” — essentially governmental organizations with a mandate to
protect the public from misconduct on the part of physicians, lawyers,
social workers, dentists, pharmacists, teachers, architects and many
others, including (and most relevant to me) clinical psychologists.
Anyone anywhere in the world can levy a complaint to these regulatory
bodies for any reason, regardless of whether the complainant has had any
direct contact with the professional in question. The respective
colleges have the responsibility to determine whether each complaint is
serious and credible enough to warrant further investigation. Complaints
can be deemed vexatious or frivolous and dispensed with. When the
college decides to move forward, it is a serious move, essentially
equivalent to a lawsuit. The The Ontario College of Psychologists has levied a multitude of such
lawsuits against me since my rise to public prominence six years ago
(although none at all in the 20 years or so I practised as a
psychologist before that). These have multiplied as of late, and now
number more than a dozen. This may seem like a lot (and “where there’s
smoke there’s fire,” or so people think), but I might point out that it
is difficult to communicate with as many people as I do and to say
anything of substance without rubbing at least a few of them the wrong
way now and then.
For my crimes, I have been sentenced to a course of mandatory
social-media communication training with the college’s so-called experts
(although social media communication training is not a scientific and
certainly not a clinical specialty of any standing). I am to do this at
my own expense (some hundreds of dollars per hour) and for a length of
time that is to be determined only by those retraining me and profiting
from doing so. How will this be determined? When those very re-educators
— those experts — have convinced themselves that I have learned my
lesson, and will behave properly in the future.
It's worse than you think in Canada @elonmusk. Regulated professionals are now terrified into silence by their respective colleges. This means they are no longer able to say what they believe to be true. And who needs that from their lawyers, physicians -- or psychologists? https://t.co/sWvIPVHU0e
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 3, 2023
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