“To us, this is a version of the placebo effect that has gone, essentially, unnoticed,” Professor Levinovitz said. “Here is this thing that is cross-cultural and trans-historical — the power of an official name to gain control over pathology of some kind — and it is almost entirely unstudied.”

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Autism, A.D.H.D., Anxiety: Can a Diagnosis Make You Better? “As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...

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“Alan Levinovitz shows us how the worship of an abstract idea of nature can lead us astray in everything from our health to the laws we pass and even how we structure our governments and our way of life. This book is required” - Tom Nichols www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621092...

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"From vaccines to climate change, misinformation poses an existential threat when it inhibits our collective decision-making ability." They Swore by the Diet I Created — but I Completely Made It Up by Alan Levinovitz in @elemental...

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I love great interviews, and have recently discovered Rachel Sugar @rtsugar who is a master of the form https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/22/18009468/alan-levinovitz-natural-food-morality

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