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Originally Posted by rubecube
Shapiro and Rubin, first and foremost, for blatant hypocrisy. Secondly, they both often engage in bad faith and dishonest arguments. Either that or their just not as smart as they pass themselves off. Any cursory fact-checking of most of their videos shows they're either intentionally misleading their audience or they fundamentally don't understand the "facts" they're presenting.
Rubin trying to pass himself off as a "classical liberal" and centrist voice of reason is particularly laughable when you take a look at who he's getting his paycheques from.
Beyond being a peddler and practitioner of pseudoscience nonsense, Peterson's arguments often fall apart under any kind of intellectual scrutiny. It was interesting seeing Cliff argue that no "left-wing" intellectual heavyweights were willing to debate Peterson, but he got exposed pretty badly when he debated Zizek in Toronto. His ideas are often revealed to be pretty extreme and nonsensical once you get past the word salads he uses to dress them up in, and he has a bad tendency to weigh-in (almost always incorrectly/incoherently) on topics he has virtually no expertise in.
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Extraordinary claims - strong!
Extraordinary evidence - lacking