Alan Levinovitz
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1,010 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Alan Levinovitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, I don't even know how many are in the piece itself.
I must have, I mean, yeah, 7,500 words.
I talked to a lot of different people in the piece.
Probably I cite at least 20 or 30 people.
I don't know.
I've talked to researching it.
I mean, at least 300 sources between patients, scientists, you know.
Crazy.
Yeah, I had a friend who had said he'd read the comments first because you have to subscribe to read the articles.
He read the comments first on the article and online, and then he subscribed and read the article.
And he was like, it was the strangest experience to him because each paragraph, he was like, wait, isn't this one of the things they said he didn't address or whatever?
And you're right, with ultra-processed information, I've actually, so I wrote a piece for the Boston Globe a couple of years back.
About exactly that, about ultra processed information.
So in the same way that our appetite for food has been hijacked by a system designed to exploit it, our appetite for information has been hijacked by a system designed to exploit it.
So quick sound bites, really palatable, polarizing, telling you that this is salvation if you believe this, but this guy is actually trying to kill you if you believe that.
I mean, one of the things I found really interesting about people reading the article
is that they were determined to make it an article about how brain retraining works.
And it's just not about that.
I don't know what's going on with this brain retraining stuff.
Personally, I believe, having talked to a dozen severely ill patients,
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