Alan Jay Levinovitz
Associate Professor, James Madison University
Alan Jay Levinovitz is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at James Madison University in Virginia. He is the author of The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat (2015) and Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science (2020) (US) (UK).
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Illness and disease
Natural and unnatural
‘Natural’ remedies are metaphysically inconsistent and unscientific. Yet they offer something that modern medicine cannot
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Philosophy of religion
A funhouse mirror for the soul
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History
It never was golden
‘The good old days’ is a virulent falsehood that infects those whose defences have been weakened by fear and insecurity
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Economics
The new astrology
By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience
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