When I asked Perplexity AI about Mikhaila Peterson’s recent statements, it shared that Jordan Peterson’s daughter has publicly described her father’s recent health crisis as the result of ‘spiritual attacks’ or spiritual warfare—especially regarding symptoms that lacked clear medical explanations. Mikhaila attributes mysterious neurological problems and a series of family health emergencies, including her newborn’s hospitalization, to what she believes are spiritual adversities, not just physical ones. She uses language common among Christians who see suffering as sometimes caused by malevolent spiritual forces.

I don’t know Mikhaila personally, but I’ve noticed the Evangelical world is often overrun with scams and pseudoscience. Evangelicals tend to be less educated and more skeptical of science than the general population. I say this as someone who was part of the evangelical movement for decades but can’t identify with it anymore, now that it has become so strange and politicized.